Alternative Masculinities in Feminist Speculative Fiction: A New Man

A New Man explores feminist utopias in American literature, highlighting their efforts to imagine healthier conceptions of manhood. These novels, from the 1970s to the mid-2010s, challenge essentialist notions of masculinity and female experience, focusing on transforming patriarchal masculinities and replacing them with alternative ones informed by second-wave and intersectional feminism.

Format: Hardback
Length: 168 pages
Publication date: 01 June 2021
Publisher: Lexington Books

Alternative masculinities in feminist speculative fiction: A New Man explores the efforts within contemporary American feminist utopias to envision healthier conceptions of manhood. As this analysis reveals, feminist works envisioning the improved society and its attendant masculinities constitute an overlooked site for mining new masculinities. During the years in which such utopias transitioned from the margins to the mainstream, from the early 1970s to the mid-2010s, these novels grew more complex, challenging essentialist conceptions of masculinity and female experience. As this analysis demonstrates, these texts vary in their focus, but are united by an interest in transforming patriarchal masculinities and replacing them with an alternative informed by second wave and intersectional feminism. This book analyzes the centrality of such alternative masculinities to these ideal societies and the ways feminist writers present in their fiction new conceptions of manhood that are pivotal to discussions surrounding the ongoing crisis of American masculinity.

Alternative masculinities in feminist speculative fiction: A New Man explores the efforts within contemporary American feminist utopias to envision healthier conceptions of manhood. As this analysis reveals, feminist works envisioning the improved society and its attendant masculinities constitute an overlooked site for mining new masculinities. During the years in which such utopias transitioned from the margins to the mainstream, from the early 1970s to the mid-2010s, these novels grew more complex, challenging essentialist conceptions of masculinity and female experience. As this analysis demonstrates, these texts vary in their focus, but are united by an interest in transforming patriarchal masculinities and replacing them with an alternative informed by second wave and intersectional feminism. This book analyzes the centrality of such alternative masculinities to these ideal societies and the ways feminist writers present in their fiction new conceptions of manhood that are pivotal to discussions surrounding the ongoing crisis of American masculinity.

Weight: 435g
Dimension: 227 x 164 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781793636607