White Guys

Studies in Post-Modern Domination and Difference

Bibliographic Data

ID3982001
AuthorsThomas Dunk, T H Von Der Dunk
Year1997
Volume40
Pages306
Publication date1997-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeREVIEW
Review ofWhite Guys: Studies in Postmodern Domination and Difference (Haymarket), Fred Pfeil, 1997
VenueLabour / Le Travail (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0700-3862 • E-ISSN: 1911-4842
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/25144189
OpenAlexW626864458
LanguageEN

What do men - white straight men in particular - want? In a series of provocative investigations of American popular culture, this book exposes the contradictions in the construction of white heterosexual masculinity over the last 15 years. From the rock 'n' roll bodies of Bruce Springsteen, Axl Rose and the late Kurt Cobain, the male-rampage films Die Hard and Lethal Weapon, and the sensitive transformation movies that followed in their wake, through to Fred Pfeil's humorous observations of the men's movement: Pfeil considers white, mainstream masculinity through direct participation in its rituals and practices firsthand. The author's aim is to reveal the ambiguity and flux in a social category too often assumed to be monolithic and unchanging. The book invites its readers to consider the shifts in mainstream masculinity's representations, in relation to the general emergence of postmodern tribalisms and in the context of changes in both contemporary feminism and the global economy

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