Coping And Suicide Amongst The Lads Expectations of Masculinity in Posttraditional Ireland

In You Throw Like a Girl, former Syracuse University quarterback and NFL veteran Don McPherson examines how the narrow definition of masculinity adversely impacts women and creates many "blind spots" that hinder the healthy development of men. Dissecting the strict set of beliefs and behaviors that underpin our understanding of masculinity, he contends that we don't raise boys to be men, we raise them not to be women.

Offering provocative readings of Tennyson's "Idylls of the King", Barrett Browning's "Aurora Leigh", Clough's "Amours de Voyage", and Browning's "The Ring and the Book", Clinton Machann brings to bear the ideas and methods of literary Darwinism to shed light on the central issue of masculinity in the Victorian epic.