Man Enough: Embodying Masculinities

Man Enough: Embodying Masculinities
ISBN-10
0761954082
ISBN-13
9780761954088
Series
Man Enough
Category
Social Science
Pages
256
Language
English
Published
1997-11-24
Publisher
SAGE Publications Limited
Author
Victor Jeleniewski Seidler

Description

In this book, one of the leading contributors to the growing debate about men, masculinities and sexual politics, Victor J Seidler, criticizes the Enlightenment coupling of white, heterosexual masculinity with `reason'. He argues that in modern society masculinity can never be taken for granted. Men must always prove that they are `man enough' to cope in the `correct' way with the problems and challenges of everyday life. Seidler believes that men have to break this chain of obligations to the Enlightenment notion of masculinity. Through engaging with men's diverse relationships with their bodies, sexualities, emotional lives, feelings and desires, Seidler explores ways of affirming masculinities while critically engaging w

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