Bonds of brotherhood in Sons of Anarchy : essays on masculinity in the FX series /
This collection of new essays explores the show's complicated presentation of masculinity and its cultural implications. Series creator and writer Kurt Sutter depicts male characters who act from a highly traditional sense of what it means to be a man.
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Jefferson, North Carolina :
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The culture of the cut: the hypermasculine world of Sons of anarchy / by Susan Fanetti
- Part 1. Institutions of influence: hegemony and identity
- "Bros before hoes": violence against women in the name of "bromosociality" / by Shawna Marks
- Leather is thicker than blood: institutional and hegemonic masculinity / by Jamieson Ryan
- Cynical tolerance: gender, race and fraternal fears / by Christian Jimenez
- The sins of the father(s): masculine identity as poisoned inheritance / by Jamie L. Brummer
- Part 2. Shapes of influence: culture and narrative
- Incapable of his own distress: genderbending Ophelia / by Jessica Walker
- Motorcycle monasticism: masculine religiosity in MC culture / by Jossalyn G. Larson
- Compilation score and trans-diegetic music: how music helps to give voice to the voiceless / by Jessica Shine
- Part 3. No seat at the Table: Outliers in SAMCRO'S World
- Lover, Killer, Father, Friend: The Complex case of Nero Padilla / by Andrew Howe
- Nero's frontier: Western and Latino masculinity, fatherhood and family / by Monica Montelongo Flores
- The performative crisis of Otto Delaney: destruction, dematerialization and masculine identity / by Susan Fanetti
- Part 4. Transgressing brotherhood: Tig and Venus
- Attempting Redemption with Tig and Venus / by Laurie Norris
- Riding crisscross: Venus van dam and the politics of transgender representation / by Peter Nagy
- About the contributors.