Representing the Male - Masculinity, Genre and Social Context in Six South Wales Novels

This book argues that industrial patriarchy in South Wales established an exclusive though damaging form of structural masculine conformity expressed through a limited -and limiting - set of gendered practices.

About the author

Following a career in teaching, lecturing and writing on English and American literature, John Perrott Jenkins is currently working on postcolonialism, border identity and the social construction of gender in anglophone Welsh fiction. He was born in Wales and now lives in Bath, England.

Summary

This book argues that industrial patriarchy in South Wales established an exclusive though damaging form of structural masculine conformity expressed through a limited –and limiting – set of gendered practices.

Product details

• Authors: John Perrott Jenkins
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9781786837783
• ISBN: 978-1-78683-778-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Gender Studies in Wales
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Genre, Wales, English, john, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, HISTORY / Social History, Social, male, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Men's Studies, Jenkins, South Wales, Masculinity, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Social and cultural history, South, Six, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Gender studies: men and boys, Gender Studies: Men, Context, Novels, Perrott, Representing