Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 242
Trim: 6¼ x 9
978-1-78661-371-4 • Hardback • May 2022 • $126.00 • (£97.00)
978-1-78661-372-1 • Paperback • April 2022 • $48.00 • (£37.00)
978-1-78661-373-8 • eBook • April 2022 • $45.50 • (£35.00)
Dr. Lynn Horton is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Chapman University. Her areas of research interest include development, gender Latin America, social movements, and qualitative research methods. Her books include Peasants in Arms, War and Peace in the Mountains of Nicaragua, Grassroots Struggles for Sustainability in Central America, and Women and Microfinance in the Global South.
1. The Neoliberal Project
2. New Global Masculinities
3. The Wider Context of Neoliberal Gender Discourse
4. Studying Elite Masculinities
5. Heroes of High Finance
6. The Business of War and Protector Masculinity
7. The Nanny State and Feminine Other
8. Challenges to Elite Masculinities
9. Conclusion
In this latest addition to the ever-growing canon on men, masculinity, manhood, and men’s studies, Horton examines contemporary “elite masculinity,” which is largely shaped by two major sectors of the international economy: finance and technology. Employing the methodological approaches of content analysis and case study, she explores both self- and media representations of several highly visible billionaire men to more fully understand and explain how class and masculinity intersect with overall neoliberal ideology—both shaping and being shaped by it. The author further explores the roles that elite think tanks and advocacy groups play in this dynamic process. The result is a serious, sobering theoretical analysis of 21st-century “masculine” political economy…. [A]cademic researchers with specialties in these particular areas will find this a most provocative read. Recommended. Graduate students and faculty.
— Choice Reviews
• Short-listed, IPEG Book Prize (British International Studies Association, 2023)