Year: 2018
Type: article
Abstract: This article examines the relation between traditional masculinity, femininities, and untraditional masculinities in Stephen King’snovels, exploring the influence manhood and social relations have on each other. Section one, which deals with male/male social and sexual interactions, explores sexuality as an indicator of morality in King’s fiction, homophobia as a possible mask for repressed homosexuality, and male homosociality being defined via ostracism. Section two centers on male/female relationships. Through a myriad of devices, King’s male characters exclude the feminine to reassert an allegedly emasculated manhood. Often, however, their assessment reveals more about the frailty of traditional masculinity than it exposes truly patronizing women. Gendered social interactions in King’s works reveal unstable masculinities that seem beyond hope, as male characters refuse to acknowledge their problems.
Source: Em Tese
Institution: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Language: English
Topic: Gender and Feminist Studies
Subfield: Gender Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2894401507