End Of Masculinity
1st Edition
Published on 1. February 1998
178 pages
978-0-335-23219-2 (ISBN)
Description
This book explains why both popular and academic commentators have found it impossible to define masculinity. It is because no such thing exists. Re-examining the ideas of thinkers such as Sigmund Freud and Thomas Hobbes, the author shows that modern societies faced the novel problem of explaining how men and women had equal rights, yet led such different lives, and solved it by inventing the concept of masculinity.
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John MacInnes
END OF MASCULINITY
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02/1998
Open University Press
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Content
- Front Cover
- Half-title
- Dedication
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface and acknowledgements
- Chapter 1: The genesis of masculinity
- Chapter 2: The fetishism of sexual difference and its secret
- Chapter 3: The crisis of masculinity and the politics of identity
- Chapter 4: The paradoxes of sex and gender
- Chapter 5: Gender as socialization theory: Freud's Three Essays
- Chapter 6: The collapse of patriarchy and the origins of gender: kinship and the traffic in women
- Chapter 7: Thomas Hobbes: social contract and the rise of universalism
- Chapter 8: Why the personal is not political
- Bibliography
- Index
- Back cover
