This book focuses on the construction hegemonic masculinity as well as its representations in literature, culture, and film.. While white heterosexual masculinity continues to be the dominant model, it remains, paradoxically, largely invisible in gender terms. While the first three chapters thus offer introductory theoretical perspectives on the latest research work on white masculinities, the following chapters concentrate on applying masculinity theory to the analysis of both social constructions and cultural (i.e., literary and film) representations of (white) men’s emotions (with a special focus on new fatherhood models), friendships between men, as well as gender-based violence.weiterlesen