Men in the Public Eye

ISBN-13: 9780415076197 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 304 str.

Jeff Hearn

Opis

Men's domination of the public domain is obvious, yet this is often ignored in social and political analyses. This text examines the problems of public men within public patriarchies. It addresses two central questions. Why and how do men dominate in the public worlds of work, politics and culture? How do these public worlds construct public men and public masculinities in different and changing ways? These questions are examined through a focus on the past, specifically the period 1870-1920, a period of massive growth and transformation in the power of the public domain. A continuing theme is that the present exists in the past, and the past in the present. Men in the Public Eye attempts to reveal why men's domination in and out of the public domain is a vital feature of gender relations in patriarchy, and how public domains dominate the private domains.

Spis treści

Foreword Pluralizing perspectives: the present and the past 1 Introduction: the problem of public men PART 1 FROM THE MALESTREAM TO PUBLIC PATRIARCHIES 2 Public men in the malestream 3 Patriarchy, public patriarchy, and related critiques 4 Public patriarchy: some initial implications for men and masculinities 5 Public patriarchies, public men, public domains, and public masculinities PART 2 PUBLIC MEN IN PUBLIC PATRIARCHIES 6 Public men as social relations 7 Organizations of men (1): size, structures, and hierarchies 8 Organizations of men (2): processes, sexualities, and images 9 Public men as persons: selves, psyches, and senses, Afterword Beyond public men?

O autorze

Jeff Hearn is Senior Lecturer in Applied Social Studies at the University of Bradford.