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Focusing on global examples of gender equality, this collection explores non-dominant models of masculinity that represent gender equity in pro-feminist ways. Essays explore new alternative models of masculinity by a wide variety of contemporary authors and texts, ranging from Paul Auster to Jonathan Franzen.

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Introduction; ·ngels Carabí and Josep M. Armengol PART I: ALTERNATIVE MASCULINITIES: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVE 1. Reconstructing Masculinity or Ending Manhood? The Potential and Limitations of Transforming Masculine Subjectivities for Gender Equality; Bob Pease 2. Men´s Anti-Violence Activism and the Construction of Gender-Equitable Masculinities; Michael Flood 3. Alternative Cultures of Masculinity: An Anthropological Approach; Matthew Gutmann 4. Aging Beyond Masculinities, or, the Penis as Failed Synecdoche; David Leverenz PART II: ALTERNATIVE MODELS OF MANHOOD: REPRESENTATIONS IN U.S. LITERATURE AND CULTURE 5. On Learning Not to Love the Oedipus Complex, Revisited; David Leverenz 6. Authoritarian, Missing, or Nurturing? Fathers in American Drama; Barbara Ozieblo 7. Fathers Who Care: Alternative Father Figures in Annie Proulx´s The Shipping News and Jonathan Franzen´s The Corrections; Teresa Requena-Pelegrí 8. Alternative Masculinities in Richard Ford´s Fiction and/vs. Susanne Bier´s In a Better World; Josep M. Armengol 9. Facing Xenocidal Guilt: Atypical Masculinity in Orson Scott Card´s Ender´s Saga; Sara Martín 10. Progressive Masculinities: Envisioning Alternative Models for Black Manhood in Toni Morrison´s Novels; Mar Gallego 11. Meeting Halfway: Contradictions, Transformation and Alternative Masculinities in Arturo Islas´ La Mollie and the King of Tears; Aishih Wehbe-Herrera 12. Reconfiguring the Male: Masculinities Beyond Capitalism in Paul Auster´s Sunset Park; Mercè Cuenca 13. Transitory Masculinities in Post-9/11 Arab American Literature Written by Women; Marta Bosch-Vilarrubias Epilogue: Moving Ahead: Alternative Masculinities for a Changing World; Victor J. Seidler

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"As the title, Alternative Masculinities for a Changing World, indicates: this is fundamentally a political book. It also makes a major scholarly contribution in engaging very seriously across the social science-humanities boundary, and between social scientists and literary, cultural, and humanities scholars. Such boundary-crossing brings new angles and elements of uncertainty, unsettling, and surprise into the analysis and the politics around men and masculinities, and this is what is needed for change." - Jeff Hearn, Professor, Örebro University, Sweden; Hanken School of Economics, Finland; University of Huddersfield, UK

"Finding new ways for men to live, creating more gender-equal masculinities, is an urgent task for all concerned with gender justice and indeed human survival. Alternative Masculinities for a Changing World engages both social science and creative literature in this exploration. It´s a bold and imaginative project, and the book gives readers a varied and hopeful view of what´s possible for modern gender relations and the lives of men." - Raewyn Connell, University Chair of Education and Social Work, The University of Sydney, Australia

"In this rich anthology Carabí and Armengol draw together some remarkably wide-ranging reflections on the pitfalls of shifting masculinities in the contemporary global arena. There has never been more need for the sort of cross-cultural dialogue on the possibilities for expanding the life-enhancing, alternative masculinities explored so well in this invaluable collection." - Lynne Segal, Anniversary Professor of Psychology and Gender Studies, University of London, UK, and author of Out of Time: The Pleasures & Perils of Ageing

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