Fight Club Masculinity

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“composure in the face of the terrifying and unthinkable. The closing decades of the twentieth century and the opening decade of the present one have seen a great deal of anxiety and concern expressed about the role of boys and men in post-1960s culture and the changing defi nitions of masculinity.”
Fight club, then, is about restoring to men a sense of their own masculinity and a hardened male body no longer softened and sapped by the feminizing infl uences of the dominant culture of late

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