Josep M. Armengol is Associate Professor of American Studies and Gender Studies. English Department, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain.

Marta Bosch Vilarrubias is an assistant Lecturer in the English Department at the University of Barcelona.

Àngels Carabí is Emeritus Professor at the University of Barcelona.

Teresa Requena Pelegrí is a permanent lecturer at the Universitat de Barcelona.

Introduction

Part 1. Rethinking Ethnic Masculinities

1. Interrogating Racialized Masculinities

2. What is Black Manhood? De-coupling Black Manhood from Black Masculinities and the Lives of Black Men

3. Revisiting Masculinities from Whiteness Studies: The Cases of Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville

4. Staging Intersectionality: Beyond Gender and Race in the American Theater

Part 2. Transnational Masculinities

5. Men Around the World: Global and Transnational Masculinities

6. Heroes, Losers or Geeks all the same? Transnational Masculinity Politics in Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007)

7. Gendering Terrorism in Hany Abu-Assad's Paradise Now (2005) and in Nabil Ayouch's Horses of God (2012)

8. New Arab Masculinities: A Feminist Approach to Arab American Men in Post-9/11 Literature Written by Women

Part 3. The Ages of Man

9. Aging Masculinities as Strategies of Resistance

10. Negotiating Childhood and Boyhood Boundaries: Toni Morrison's Black Boys and Richard Linklater's Boyhood (2015)

11. Fighting the Monsters Inside to the End: Masculinity, Class and the Ageing Gay Man in Christopher Bram's Father of Frankenstein (1995)

Part 4. Masculinities and Affect

12. Theorizing Affective Masculinities

13. Men of War: Affect, Embodiment and Western Heroic Masculinity in Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker (2008)

Part 5. Eco-Masculinities

14. The 'Wild, Wild World' -Masculinity and the Environment in the U.S. Literary Imagination from Cooper's The Pioneers (1825) to T.C. Boyle's The Tortilla

15. Environmental Humanities and the Construction of Caring Masculinities in David Vann and Annie Proulx

Part 6. Masculinites and/in Capitalism

16. Masculinities and Financial Capitalism

17. Capitalism, Slavery, and Mask-ulinities: New Directions

18. The Shifting Value of Material Goods in Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch (2013)

Part 7. Epilogue: New Directions in Masculinity Studies