78 Pages
by
Routledge
78 Pages
by
Routledge
78 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book focuses on the projection of the hero’s masculinity in a selection of post-millennial popular romance narratives and attempts to discover if, and to what extent, this projection reinforces or challenges patriarchal ideas about gender. In the majority of these narratives the hero is often presented as a hegemonic alpha male. However, hegemonic masculinity is not a fixed concept. Rather,... Read more
Introduction
Chapter 1. Hegemonic Masculinity and the Romance Hero
Chapter 2. Transnational Business Masculinities in Popular Romance Fiction
Chapter 3. Hybrid Masculine Bloc in Popular Romance Fiction
Chapter 4. Body and Beauty in Popular Romance Fiction
Chapter 5. 'Lesser' Masculinities
Conclusion
Biography
Eirini Arvanitaki is a teaching associate in the Department of Social Sciences at the Hellenic Open University in Patras, Greece.
