LEADER 04574nam 22006615 450 001 9910484443503321 005 20240313123824.0 010 $a9783030704704 010 $a303070470X 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-70470-4 035 $a(CKB)4100000011891307 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6568261 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6568261 035 $a(OCoLC)1249472745 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-70470-4 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011891307 100 $a20210415d2021 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAlpha Masculinity $eHegemony in Language and Discourse /$fby Eric Louis Russell 205 $a1st ed. 2021. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (259 pages) 225 1 $aPalgrave Studies in Language, Gender and Sexuality,$x2947-9177 311 08$a9783030704698 311 08$a3030704696 327 $aChapter 1: Stumbling into Alpha -- Chapter 2: Masculinities, Language, and the Alpha Male -- Chapter 3: The Evidentiary Base of Alpha Male Discourse -- Chapter 4: Enlanguaging Alpha: Making Reality by Making Language -- Chapter 5: Representing Alpha: The Forms of Male Hegemony -- Chapter 6: Constructing Alpha: Structures of Hegemony -- Chapter 7: Discourses of Alpha: Strategies and the Hegemonic Order -- Chapter 8: Men, Militarism, and Disruption. . 330 $a"In this book, Eric Louis Russell waltzes through the alpha male's symbolic territory with analytical finesse and methodological rigour. This book is an indispensable source for anyone interested in understanding how alpha males speak and how to counter the gender stereotypes that uphold them." - Professor Rodrigo Borba, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil "In a richly researched, insightful study, Eric Louis Russell moves us through a granular examination of language and the semiotics of gender towards a close understanding of the terms of alpha masculinity today. Far from just a label tossed around to make some men feel good about their performatives, alpha masculinity invokes realities with very real consequences on bodies, enacted violences and political machinations. If you want to understand the dynamics of gender today, you must read this book." - Professor Michelle A. Marzullo, California Instituteof Integral Studies, USA This book examines the linguistic and discursive mechanisms that realize the mythological American Alpha Male. Providing an in-depth dissection of corpora from an online socio-commercial community, a pop-psychology guru, and fictional gay erotica, it unravels the ways language, gender, and hegemony play out in this ideological figure of neopositive, essentialist masculinity. Through a detailed, multi-level analysis, Russell shows how the Alpha figure combines elements of dominance, normativity, and androcentrism and how these forces intersect with neoliberal and pseudoscientific discourses to establish a uniquely hybridized male hegemony, one that is familiar to most, but whose internal mechanisms remain largely unquestioned and unexamined. This book will be of interest to academic scholars in sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, cultural studies, and gender and sexualities studies. Eric Louis Russell is a Professor in the Department of French & Italian and affiliated with the Department of Linguistics and the Program in Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies at the University of California, Davis. His research looks at the linguistic foundations and discursive practices of masculinities, sexualities, and sociocultural animus. 410 0$aPalgrave Studies in Language, Gender and Sexuality,$x2947-9177 606 $aSociolinguistics 606 $aSex 606 $aMen 606 $aSex (Psychology) 606 $aSociolinguistics 606 $aGender Studies 606 $aMens' Studies 606 $aPsychology of Gender and Sexuality 615 0$aSociolinguistics. 615 0$aSex. 615 0$aMen. 615 0$aSex (Psychology) 615 14$aSociolinguistics. 615 24$aGender Studies. 615 24$aMens' Studies. 615 24$aPsychology of Gender and Sexuality. 676 $a306.44 676 $a306.44081 700 $aRussell$b Eric Louis$f1973-$01038862 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910484443503321 996 $aAlpha masculinity$92460704 997 $aUNINA