ABSTRACT
This book brings together the emerging insights of what posthumanism, new materialism and affect theory mean for ‘the man question’. The contributors to this book interrogate the question of how ‘Man’ as a gendered being is entangled with nature, culture, materiality and corporeality, and they explore ways to unsettle men’s sense of sovereignty to decentre anthropocentric masculinity.
Men have to move from the centre of privilege which grants them supremacy before they can open themselves to the decentred, embodied, affective, vulnerable and relational self that is necessary to embrace the posthuman. This book explores the extent to which this is possible.
The book will be of interest to academics, students and scholars across a range of disciplines who are engaging with the intersections of feminist studies with posthumanism and new materialism, especially as they relate to critical studies of men and masculinities. Chapters on fathering, pornography, ageing, affect, embodiment, entanglements with technology and nature and the implications of these issues for changing men and masculinities and the politics of critical masculinity studies’ engagement with posthuman feminisms will interest students and academics across these diverse disciplines.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|51 pages
Masculinities and Affect
chapter 5|14 pages
Unsettling Masculinities Through Affect
part II|66 pages
Anthropocentric Masculinities and Entanglements With Bodies, Nature and Technology
chapter 7|14 pages
"Confront[ing] the Suspicion" and "Embodied Embedded"
chapter 8|14 pages
Challenging Patriarchal, Colonial Patronage in Anthropocentric Engagements with 'Nature Conservation'
chapter 9|12 pages
Emancipation, Connections and Vulnerabilities Among Bodaboda Men in Kampala
chapter 10|12 pages
Destabilising Male Privilege
part III|44 pages
Conversations Between Critical Studies of Men and Masculinities and Feminist Engagements With Posthumanism
chapter 11|15 pages
Embrace or Engagement?
chapter 12|15 pages
Materialism, New Materialisms and Critical Studies of Men and Masculinities
part IV|55 pages
Posthuman and New Materialist Ontologies of Becoming for Men