[Comicsstudiessociety] IJOCA book review (USA only) - Toxic Masculinity: Mapping the Monstrous in Our Heroes

[Mike Rhode]

The book has been taken, thank you.

Mike

On Mon, Oct 26, 2020, 12:51 PM Mike Rhode <mrhode at gmail.com> wrote:

> For reviewers in the US only, due to postage costs. First to reply
> directly to me gets it, as usual.  Mike
> Toxic Masculinity: Mapping the Monstrous in Our Heroes
> Edited by Esther De Dauw <https://www.ubcpress.ca/esther-de-dauw> and Daniel
> J. Connell <https://www.ubcpress.ca/daniel-j-connell>
> University Press of Mississippi
>
> Contributions by Daniel J. Connell, Esther De Dauw, Craig Haslop, Drew
> Murphy, Richard Reynolds, Janne Salminen, Karen Sugrue, and James C. Taylor
> The superhero permeates popular culture from comic books to film and
> television to internet memes, merchandise, and street art. *Toxic
> Masculinity: Mapping the Monstrous in Our Heroes *asks what kind of men
> these heroes are and if they are worthy of the unbalanced amount of
> attention. Contributors to the volume investigate how the (super)hero in
> popular culture conveys messages about heroism and masculinity, considering
> the social implications of this narrative within a cultural (re)production
> of dominant, hegemonic values and the possibility of subaltern ideas,
> norms, and values to be imagined within that (re)production.
> Divided into three sections, the volume takes an interdisciplinary
> approach, positioning the impact of hypermasculinity on toxic masculinity
> and the vilification of “other” identities through such mediums as film,
> TV, and print comic book literature. The first part, “Understanding Super
> Men,” analyzes hegemonic masculinity and the spectrum of hypermasculinity
> through comics, television, and film, while the second part, “The Monstrous
> Other,” focuses on queer identity and femininity in these same mediums. The
> final section, “Strategies of Resistance,” offers criticism and solutions
> to the existing lack of diversity through targeted studies on the
> performance of gender. Ultimately, the volume identifies the ways in which
> superhero narratives have promulgated and glorified toxic masculinity and
> offers alternative strategies to consider how characters can resist the
> hegemonic model and productively demonstrate new masculinities.
>
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