Eric Louis Russell is a Professor in the Department of French & Italian and affiliated with the Department of Linguistics and the Program in Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies at the University of California, Davis. His research looks at the linguistic foundations and discursive practices of masculinities, sexualities, and sociocultural animus.

Chapter 1: Stumbling into Alpha.- Chapter 2: Masculinities, Language, and the Alpha Male.- Chapter 3: The Evidentiary Base of Alpha Male Discourse.- Chapter 4: Enlanguaging Alpha: Making Reality by Making Language.- Chapter 5: Representing Alpha: The Forms of Male Hegemony.- Chapter 6: Constructing Alpha: Structures of Hegemony.- Chapter 7: Discourses of Alpha: Strategies and the Hegemonic Order.- Chapter 8: Men, Militarism, and Disruption.