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.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Fanetti, Susan (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: 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.