Contemporary Irish Masculinities
Contemporary Irish Masculinities

Author: Angelos Bollas

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-12-20

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 1003859518

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By examining portrayals of male homosociality in Sally Rooney's novels, the book documents how male relationships are formed, challenged, and often disavowed and the profound negative effects this can have for the wellbeing of men. The book also highlights the importance of the sociocultural context within which male relationships are formed and supports that the potential for healthy and meaningful relationships between men depends on how they are brought up to view themselves as men and their role in the society they live in. That is, despite the many examples whereby space for authentic and meaningful male homosociality is limited and well concealed, the book also offers a more optimistic potential for men's relationships by illustrating the significance of broader understandings of masculinity, unfettered by homophobia and misogyny, in allowing for male homosociality with the potential of emancipating men from heteropatriarchal norms which dictate their behaviour toward themselves and others.

Masculinities and Manhood in Contemporary Irish Drama
Masculinities and Manhood in Contemporary Irish Drama

Author: Cormac O'Brien

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-12-10

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 3030840751

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This book charts the journey, in terms of both stasis and change, that masculinities and manhood have made in Irish drama, and by extension in the broader culture and society, from the 1960s to the present. Examining a diverse corpus of drama and theatre events, both mainstream and on the fringe, this study critically elaborates a seismic shift in Irish masculinities. This book argues, then, that Irish manhood has shifted from embodying and enacting post-colonial concerns of nationalism and national identity, to performing models of masculinity that are driven and moulded by the political and cultural practices of neoliberal capitalism. Masculinities and Manhood in Contemporary Irish Drama charts this shift through chapters on performing masculinity in plays set in both the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland, and through several chapters that focus on Women’s and Queer drama. It thus takes its readers on a journey: a journey that begins with an overtly patriarchal, nationalist manhood that often made direct comment on the state of the nation, and ultimately arrives at several arguably regressive forms of globalised masculinity, which are couched in misaligned notions of individualism and free-choice and that frequently perceive themselves as being in crisis.

Men and Masculinities in Irish Cinema
Men and Masculinities in Irish Cinema

Author: D. Ging

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-12-03

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 1137291931

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Spanning a broad trajectory, from the New Gaelic Man of post-independence Ireland to the slick urban gangsters of contemporary productions, this study traces a significant shift from idealistic images of Irish manhood to a much more diverse and gender-politically ambiguous range of male identities on the Irish screen.

Masculinities and the Contemporary Irish Theatre
Masculinities and the Contemporary Irish Theatre

Author: B. Singleton

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2010-11-24

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 0230294537

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Irish theatre and its histories appear to be dominated by men and their actions. This book's socially and culturally contextualized analysis of performance over the last two decades, however reveals masculinities that are anything but hegemonic, played out in theatres and other arenas of performance all over Ireland.

Irish Masculinities
Irish Masculinities

Author: Caroline Magennis

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780716531357

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This collection features a variety of contributors - from emerging voices in Irish literary criticism to established scholars in the field - who provide a fearless interrogation of the conventional readings of the representation of Irish men. In particular, these essays deconstruct the notion of masculinity as a fixed stable identity and explore the plurality of representations of manhood in literature and culture. Several of the essays look at hybridity in Irish male identity and the idea of diasporic identity, as well as discussing male identity in the domestic sphere. They consider masculinities (both north and south of the border) in a diverse range of topics (from O'Duffy's Blueshirts to Belfast drag queens and consumer culture), bringing a much-needed sophistication to the issue of masculinity in Irish studies.

Ageing Masculinities in Irish Literature and Visual Culture
Ageing Masculinities in Irish Literature and Visual Culture

Author: Michaela Schrage-Früh

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2022-07-14

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 1000588300

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This book engages with ageing masculinities in Irish literature and visual culture, including fiction, drama, poetry, painting, and documentary. Exploring the shifting representations of older men from the early twentieth century to the present, the contributors analyse how a broad range of literary and visual texts construct, reinscribe, or challenge perceptions of older age. In doing so, they trace a shift from depictions of authority figures - often symbolising patriarchal dominance and oppression - to more nuanced, complex, and heterogeneous explorations of older men’s embodied subjectivities and vulnerabilities. Exploring artists and writers such as Seán Keating, J.M. Synge, Teresa Deevy, Marina Carr, Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon, Derek Mahon, Kate O’Brien, John Banville, Colm Tóibín, Bernard MacLaverty, Mike McCormack, Anne Griffin, and Claire Keegan, the chapters in this book attend to the symbolic as well as social significance of older men in Irish cultural expression.

What is Masculinity?
What is Masculinity?

Author: J. Arnold

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2011-06-14

Total Pages: 862

ISBN-13: 0230307256

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Across history, the ideas and practices of male identity have varied much between time and place: masculinity proves to be a slippery concept, not available to all men, sometimes even applied to women. This book analyses the dynamics of 'masculinity' as both an ideology and lived experience - how men have tried, and failed, to be 'Real Men'.

Gender, Ireland and Cultural Change
Gender, Ireland and Cultural Change

Author: Gerardine Meaney

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-06-10

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1135165645

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This study analyzes the role of gender in Irish cultural change from the 1890s to the present, exploring literature, the relationships between gender and national identities, and the recognized major political and cultural movements of the twentieth century. It includes discussion of film, television and, popular music, as well as diverse literary texts by authors such as Joyce, Yeats, Wilde, and Boland.

Masculinity and Irish Popular Culture
Masculinity and Irish Popular Culture

Author: Conn Holohan

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-12-30

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1137300248

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Masculinity and Irish Popular Culture: Tiger's Tales is an interdisciplinary collection of essays by established and emerging scholars, analysing the shifting representations of Irish men across a range of popular culture forms in the period of the Celtic Tiger and beyond.