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Book SynopsisGender performativity, its variances depending on their historical, social and cultural contexts, and the rituals, representations and institutions involved in gender performances are some of the issues the authors addressed in this collection. Gender under Construction takes a non-essentialist view of gender and provides illustrative examples of gender constructive processes by pursuing them in various contexts and by means of diverse methodologies. In so doing, the book demonstrates that it is unfeasible to consider gender as a fixed biological trait. Instead, the authors propose to look at gender performance as ongoing processes in which femininities and masculinities enter multiple and dynamic intersections with a myriad of categories, including those of nationality, ethnicity, class, sexuality and age. Contributors are Iqbal Akthar, Renata Ćuk, Ewa Glapka, Deirdre Hynes, Borja Ibaseta, Martin King, Ana Cristina Moreira Lima, Mervi Patosalmi, Marcia Bastos de Sá, Andréa Costa da Silva, Vera Helena Ferraz de Siqueira, Christi van der Westhuizen and Isabelle V. Zinn.
Table of ContentsIntroduction Ewa Glapka and Barbara Braid Part I Gender in Talk: Construction of Identity versus Hegemonic Discourses of Gender Masculinity in Media Consumption: Readers’ Positioning to the Discourse of a Men’s Magazine Ewa Glapka Still Pink and Pale: White Afrikaans Hetero-Femininity in Postapartheid South Africa Christi van der Westhuizen Gendering the Workplace: Between Transgression and (De-)Naturalisation Isabelle V. Zinn Part II Dynamic Masculinities and Their Representations Inscribing the Male: Representations of Masculinity and Male Bodies in Contemporary Literature Borja Ibaseta ‘Imprisoned in a System of Work, Produce, Consume’: So How Did Jack Kerouac, Hugh Hefner, Albert Finney and John Lennon Challenge the Link between Masculinity and Responsibility? Martin King Desperately Becoming a Father: Representations of Fatherhood in Desperate Housewives Iqbal Akthar and Deirdre Hynes Part III Gender, Sexuality and the Coercive Power of Institutions Sexual Violence against Men in Armed Conflict: Why Is It still Invisible? Renata Cuk Marital Rape and Constructions of Sexual Agency Mervi Patosalmi Sexuality and Gender at a Brazilian School: Constructing Femininities Vera Helena Ferraz de Siqueira, Marcia Bastos de Sá, Andrea Costa da Silva, and Ana Cristina Moreira Lima
