Slow Motion: Changing Masculinities, Changing Men

ISBN-13: 9780230019270 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 320 str.

Lynne Segal

Opis

'Slow Motion' tackles the prevailing feminist pessimism about men and male power. Challenging the notion of masculinity as a monolithic entity, Lynne Segal points out the contradictory and competing nature of its different forms.

Recenzje

Praise for earlier editions:

'Refreshingly asserts that monolithic mouthings about 'men' and 'women' will get us nowhere... A well-informed survey of men in historical, sociological and psychological contexts' - Roy Porter

''A detailed overview of theories and writing on masculinity..dense and thoughtful' - Angela Phillips, Independent

Spis treści

Foreword by Raewyn Connell Introduction to the third, revised edition Introduction to the original edition Acknowledgements Preamble to Chapter 1 - The View from 2007 1 Look Back in Anger: Men in the Fifties Preamble to Chapter 2 - The View from 2007 2 The Good Father: Reconstructing Fatherhood Preamble to Chapter 3 - The View from 2007 3 Shrinking the Phallus: Contemporary Research on Masculinity (I) Preamble to Chapter 4 - The View from 2007 4 Asserting Phallic Mastery: Contemporary Research on Masculinity ( II) Preamble to Chapter 5 - The View from 2007 5 Competing Masculinities (I): Manliness - The Masculine Ideal Preamble to Chapter 6 - The View from 2007 6 Competing Masculinities (II):Traitors to the Cause Preamble to Chapter 7 -The View from 2007 7 Competing Masculinities (III): Black Masculinity and the White Man's Black Man Preamble to Chapter 8 - The View from 2007 8 The Belly of the Beast (I): Sex as Male Domination? Preamble to Chapter 9 - The View from 2007 9 The Belly of the Beast (II): Explaining Male Violence Preamble to Chapter 10 - the View from 2007 10 Beyond Gender Hierarchy: Can Men Change? Notes and Bibliographical references Index

O autorze

LYNNE SEGAL is Anniversary Professor of Psychology and Gender Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. Her books include Is the Future Female? Troubled Thoughts on Contemporary Feminism, Straight Sex:The Politics of Pleasure, and Why Feminism? Gender, Psychology , Politics. She is currently writing Making Trouble: Ways of Belonging.