Toxic Masculinity brings together scholars across disciplines to explore the ways in which toxic masculinity is constructed, configured, and represented online.
provides an overview of the politics of toxic masculinity and the competing discourses of masculinity that the term brings into view
presents a diversity of disciplinary perspectives, critical frameworks and objects of study in the analysis of toxic masculinity
draws together essays that ask critical questions about the relations between masculinity, power (and marginality) during a time of cultural and social change.
Mark McGlashan is Lecturer in English Language at the Birmingham Institute of Media and English, Birmingham City University, United Kingdom.
John Mercer is Professor of Gender and Sexuality at Birmingham City University, United Kingdom.
Ch 1. Online Discourses of Toxic Masculinity; 2. Incels, MGTOW and Heteropessimism ; 3. Between Involuntary Celibacy and Incel: Outlining a Worldview; 4. 'Patriot Bros', the Fascist Creep, and the Spatial Fantasies of White-Nationalist Masculinity; 5. 5. Not Just a Prank: Toxic Masculinity and Prank Culture; 6. Ink not mink: Discourses of Masculinity in Animal Rights Campaigns; 7. Internalised Homophobia or Externalised Transphobia: Violence Against Trans Women in a Sexual or Romantic Context; 8. Men know, Women listen: Mansplaining, Manspreading and other Malestream Stories; 9. Representing Shitty Media Men and Casting Couch Culture: Film and Television's Fictional Reckoning with #MeToo, Sexual Harassment and Assault; 10. Trump's Last Gasp: Melodrama, Toxic Dramaturgy and Zombie Masculinity.