Affective Masculinities
New Books in Gender
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Affective Masculinity and Heteropatriarchy
I'm really committed to the idea of studying literature and films and digital texts. So I'm interested in loosening these attachments, right? And what I really mean by affective masculinity is that say you witness a script, which is a very, very traditional script but there is a certain kind of destabilization happening at the level of pre-conscious through your interaction with that script. Can you give an example? I'm kind of obsessed with Shah Rukh Khan because he has this particular way of talking. His paratext is all about his witty humor and things like that. He is someone who is not at all afraid to be vulnerable.
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