Masculinities in Text and Teaching

DENNIS W. ALLEN Professor of English at West Virginia University, USAJOHN BEYNON Head of Communication, Cultural & Media Studies in the Cardiff School of Creative Industries, University of Glamorgan, UKROBERT BURDEN Reader in English Studies in the School of Arts and Media at the University of Teesside, UKRACHEL CARROLL Principal Lecturer and Subject Group Leader in English Studies at the University of Teesside, UKRANITA CHATTERJEE Assistant Professor of English at California State University, Northridge, USAMARK DOOLEY Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Teesside, UKALICE FERREBE Lecturer in English at Liverpool John Moores University, UKRUTH HELYER Senior Lecturer at the University of Teesside, UKWAYNE MARTINO Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Western Ontario, USARUTH PAGE Senior Lecturer at the University of Central England in Birmingham, UKCHRIS THURGAR-DAWSON Programme Leader for English Studies at the University of Teesside, UKCRIS YELLAND Principal Lecturer in English Studies at the University of Teesside, UK

• Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Preface Masculinities in Text and Teaching; B.Knights Training to be an English Teacher: Negotiating Gendered Subjectivities and the Gendered Curriculum as Inter-Linked Cultural Processes; W.Martino Queer Teaching/Teaching Queer: Renaissance Masculinities and the Seminar; M.Dooley Charlotte Dacre's Nymphomaniacs and Demon Lovers: Teaching Female Masculinities; R.Chatterjee Masculinity and Modernism: Teaching D.H. Lawrence; R.Burden Gender and Narrative Form; R.Page Bois will be Bois: Masculinity and Pedagogy in the Gay and Lesbian Studies Classroom; D.Allen Curricula Constructions of Race and Gender: Reading African-American Masculinity; R.Carroll Lifelong Learning in the Lifelong Poem; C.Thurgar-Dawson Autobiographical Narratives in the Teaching of Masculinities; J.Beynon Atrocity and Transitivity; C.Yelland Taking Possession of Knowledge: The Masculine Academic in Don De Lillo's White Noise ; R.Helyer High Visibility: Teaching Ladlit; A.Ferrebe Afterword Index

'An impressive collection of writings and reflections which together make an important contribution to the sociology of men and masculinities. This book will be of value to students, researchers, teachers and educationalists seeking understanding of and insights into the gendered, masculinist character of text, language and learning.' - Dr Stephen Whitehead, Keele University, UK