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Author Horrocks, Roger, 1946-

Title Masculinity in crisis : myths, fantasies and realities / Roger Horrocks
Published Basingstoke : Macmillan ; New York : St. Martin's, 1994

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Description viii, 210 pages ; 23 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: Table of contents for Masculinity in crisis : myths, fantasies, and realities / Roger Horrocks ; consultant editor, Jo Campling. -- Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog -- Information from electronic data provided by the publisher. May be incomplete or contain other coding. -- Acknowledgements -- Introductions -- Exploring Gender -- Power and Powerlessness -- Gender and Patriarchy -- The First Woman -- The Fragile Male -- Male Autism -- Rippers, Muggers, Soldiers -- Male Images and Stereotypes -- Growing Up -- Conclusions -- Appendix: Films Cited -- Notes -- Index -- Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Men, Masculinity, Sex role
Summary Male identity is shown to be fractured, fragile and truncated. Men are trained to be rational and violent, and to shut out whole areas of existence and feeling. Many stereotypes imprison men - particularly machismo, which is shown to be deeply masochistic and self-destructive
This book argues that masculine identity is in deep crisis in Western culture - the old forms are disintegrating, while men struggle to establish new relations with women and with each other. This book offers a fresh look at gender, particularly masculinity, by using material from the author's work as a psychotherapist. The book also considers the contributions made by feminism, sociology and anthropology to the study of gender, and suggests that it must be studied from an interdisciplinary standpoint. Masculinity is seen to have economic, political and psychological roots, but the concrete development of gender must be traced in the relations of the male infant with his parents. Here the young boy has to separate from his mother, and his own proto-feminine identity, and identify with his father - but in Western culture fathering is often deficient
Analysis Masculinity
Masculinity
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-201) and index
Subject Gender identity.
Men -- Psychology.
Masculinity.
Men.
Sex role.
Author Campling, Jo.
LC no. 93037500
ISBN 0312120206 (St. Martin's : cased)
0312120214 (St. Martin's : pbk)
0333593227 (Macmillan : cased)
0333593235 (Macmillan : pbk)