34.1598, Books: Language and Mediated Masculinities: Lawson

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Date: 12-May-2023
From: Rachel Havard [rachel.havard at oup.com]
Subject: Language and Mediated Masculinities: Lawson


Title: Language and Mediated Masculinities
Subtitle: Cultures, Contexts, Constraints
Series Title: Studies in Language and Gender
Publication Year: 2023
Publisher: Oxford University Press
                http://www.oup.com/us
Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/language-and-mediate
d-masculinities-9780190081041?utm_source=linguistlist&utm_medium=lists
erv&utm_campaign=linguistics

Author: Robert Lawson
Hardback: ISBN: 9780190081041 Pages: 326 Price: U.S. $ 125.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9780190081058 Pages: 328 Price: U.S. $ 39.95
Abstract:

>From television shows to the manosphere, and from alt-right
communities to fatherhood forums, debates about masculinity have come
to dominate the media landscape. What does it mean to be a man in
contemporary society? How is masculinity constituted in different
media spaces? This growing cultural tension around masculinities has
been discussed and analyzed both for general audiences and in
burgeoning academic scholarship. What has been typically overlooked,
however, is the role that language plays in these mediated
performances of masculinity.

In 'Language and Mediated Masculinities', Robert Lawson draws on data
from newspapers, social media sites, television programs, and online
forums to explore language and masculinities across a range of media
contexts. The book offers a critical evaluation of the intersection
between language, masculinities, and identities in contemporary
society and addresses three key questions: How are masculinities
constructed, in both public and private spheres, through linguistic
and discursive strategies? How does language about masculinity and men
affect (and recreate) gender ideologies in different social,
political, and historical contexts? What might the language of men
tell us about the state of contemporary gender relations in the
twenty-first century? Lawson furthers our understanding of how
language is implicated in (re)creating gender ideologies and how it
shapes contemporary gender relations. Against a cultural backdrop of
rising neoliberalism, ethnic nationalism, online radicalization,
networked misogyny, and fractious gender relations, this book is an
important contribution to charting how language is used to monitor,
evaluate, and police masculinities in online and offline spaces.

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics

Written In: English (eng)

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