The Fictions That Shape Men's Lives

ISBN-13: 9780367421137 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 138 str.

Christopher Kilmartin

Opis

The Fictions that Shape Men’s Lives is structured around a number of key ‘fictions’ of masculinity, such as beliefs in biological determinism, the inevitability of men’s violence and the opposition of the sexes, and proceeds to expose them to be wholly or partially unfounded.

Spis treści

Chapter One: Frameworks; Chapter Two: "Opposite Sex": The Fiction of Difference; Chapter Three: Blue Genes: The Fiction of Biological Determinism; Chapter Four: Mirrors of the Soul: The Fiction that Appearance is Reality; Chapter Five: Good Old Days: The Fiction of the Bygone Romantic Era; Chapter Six: A Man’s Gotta Do What a Man’s Gotta Do: The Fiction of Violence; Chapter Seven: The Last Action Hero: The Fiction of Masculine Mystique ; Chapter Eight: Onward through the Fog: The Future of Masculinities; ;