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Alpha Masculinity: Hegemony in Language and Discourse

Alpha Masculinity: Hegemony in Language and Discourse

Hardcover

Series: Palgrave Studies in Language, Gender and Sexuality

LinguisticsGeneral Gender StudiesMen's Studies

ISBN10: 3030704696
ISBN13: 9783030704698
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Apr 16 2021
Pages: 249
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

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.

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