Description: This book challenges simplistic views of hegemonic masculinity, advocating for nuanced understandings of hegemony to advance gender equality and explores the influence of globalization and other forces on diverse masculinities across multiple levels, examining their evolution and future trajectories.
Brief description: J. E. Sumerau is assistant professor and director of applied sociology at the University of Tampa.
Review Quotes: "Uniquely driven by the intersection of capital, gender and globalization-related phenomena like migration and displacement, this new edited volume offers a nuanced understanding of hegemony and brings to masculinity a multilayered analytical framework that moves beyond the domination/subordination gendered binary. A rich selection of essays on masculinity in literature, cinema, popular culture (including TV series, advertising and social media) charts impressive routes connecting India and East and Southeast Asia to the US and Europe to probe the potential of global capital and communication to modify and reshape local patriarchal legacies. Rajni Singh & Debapriya Ganguly have given us a volume with a true transnational vocation. A significant contribution to the changing field of masculinity studies." --Mena Mitrano, Associate Professor of Anglo-American Literatures, Ca' Foscari University Venice