Toxic Masculinity, Casino Capitalism, and America's Favorite Card Game
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Toxic Masculinity, Casino Capitalism, and America’s Favorite Card Game
Andrew Manno
Toxic Masculinity, Casino Capitalism, and America’s Favorite Card Game The Poker Mindset
Andrew Manno Department of English Raritan Valley Community College Branchburg, NJ, USA
ISBN 978-3-030-40259-4 ISBN 978-3-030-40260-0 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40260-0 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Image credit: LAMB/Alamy Stock Photo This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Preface and Acknowledgements
How is it that an English professor writes a book about masculinity and poker? As a bookish child, I struggled to create a masculine identity that combined academic inclinations with more-or-less unquestioned traditional ideas of masculinity. That bookishness led eventually to undergraduate and graduate degrees in literature. My doctoral dissertation in the mid-1990s, I can see now, while focusing on twentieth-century Irish literature, touched on issues of masculinity, albeit not in an overt way. Further, while working on my dissertation, I became a parent. During this time, I attempted to reconcile an academic identity with the expectation of being a middle-class “provider,” as these two seemed at odds considering the long years spent in graduate school living off stipends and teaching fellowships rather than making more lucrative career choices. These experiences prompted me to think about masculinity as an ideology: How is such an ideology constructed? How are the pressures to live up to the ideals of our traditional masculinity ideology harmful? How can they be resisted? As ti
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