Gender Roles, Hegemony & Political Power in Tolkien's Middle Earth

Gender Roles, Hegemony & Political Power in Tolkien's Middle Earth is a study of the ties between gender roles, sexuality, and the political power and social influence of characters present in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit and The Children of Hurin. In this book, Tolkien's Middle Earth is shown to be a highly complex presentation of gender archetypes, social expectations and political power structures with Freudian narratives subtexts alongside a phallocentric presentation of authority upheld with violence and adherence to hegemonic masculine ideals against the backdrop of a politically turbulent world at war that draws parallels to the periods during and after Tolkien's military service in the First World War.