Re-Thinking Men: Heroes, Villains and Victims

Re-Thinking Men: Heroes, Villains and Victims
ISBN-10
1317063945
ISBN-13
9781317063940
Category
Social Science
Pages
306
Language
English
Published
2016-04-08
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Anthony Synnott

Description

Much writing on men in the field of gender studies tends to focus unduly, almost exclusively, on portraying men as villains and women as victims in a moral bi-polar paradigm. Re-Thinking Men reverses the proclivity which ignores not only the positive contributions of men to society, but also the male victims of life including the homeless, the incarcerated, the victims of homicide, suicide, accidents, war and the draft, and sexism, as well as those affected by the failures of the health, education, political and justice systems. Proceeding from a radically different perspective in seeking a more positive, balanced and inclusive view of men (and women), this book presents three contrasting paradigms of men as Heroes, Villains and Victims. With the development of a comparative and revised gender perspective drawing on US, Canadian and UK sources, this book will be of interest to scholars across a range of social sciences.

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