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T1 The politics of masculinity and/as emotion: Walt Whitman's celebration of male intimacy in the first person
A1 Armengol-Carrera, Josep M.
K1 Masculinidad
K1 Whitman, Walt
AB This article sets out to demonstrate how the exclusive equation of emotions with femininity isa cultural and historical construction. It analyzes the close, though often veiled, relationshipbetween masculinity and sentiment in American culture and history, especially with a viewto demonstrating the political potential of men’s emotions to transform the existing socialorder. The argument is that friendships and emotional attachments between men couldcontribute not only to enriching men’s emotional lives but also, and above all, to erasingsexism, racism, and homophobia from our societies. It is argued that men’s friendships withother men might play a fundamental role in promoting greater social equality, as a numberof Walt Whitman’s poems, all of them written in the first person, will help illustrate.
PB Universidad de La Laguna. Servicio de Publicaciones
SN 0211-5913
YR 2013
FD 2013
LK http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/2496
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DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna
RD 27-nov-2024