Alpha masculinity : hegemony in language and discourse / Eric Louis Russell.
This book examines the linguistic and discursive mechanisms that realize the mythological American Alpha Male. Providing an in-depth dissection of corpora from an online socio-commercial community, a pop-psychology guru, and fictional gay erotica, it unravels the ways language, gender, and hegemony...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Cham :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2021]
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| Series: | Palgrave studies in language, gender and sexuality.
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| Online Access: | Click here to view this book Springer Humanities and Social Science eBook Collection 2021 English/International |
| Summary: | This book examines the linguistic and discursive mechanisms that realize the mythological American Alpha Male. Providing an in-depth dissection of corpora from an online socio-commercial community, a pop-psychology guru, and fictional gay erotica, it unravels the ways language, gender, and hegemony play out in this ideological figure of neopositive, essentialist masculinity. Through a detailed, multi-level analysis, Russell shows how the Alpha figure combines elements of dominance, normativity, and androcentrism and how these forces intersect with neoliberal and pseudoscientific discourses to establish a uniquely hybridized male hegemony, one that is familiar to most, but whose internal mechanisms remain largely unquestioned and unexamined. This book will be of interest to academic scholars in sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, cultural studies, and gender and sexualities studies. Eric Louis Russell is a Professor in the Department of French & Italian and affiliated with the Department of Linguistics and the Program in Gender, Sexuality and Womens Studies at the University of California, Davis. His research looks at the linguistic foundations and discursive practices of masculinities, sexualities, and sociocultural animus. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations (some colour). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 303070470X 9783030704704 |