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Examining changing role models for masculine identity--from cowboy in the 1950s to Terminator in the 1990s, from flesh-and-blood man to machine--this book suggests that men need new role models and that sufficient room needs to be left for the expression of male vulnerability, a psychic space that would accept attitudes and behaviors traditionally labeled as "feminine." This new model, Badinter argues, may reduce the profound effects of homophobia and misogyny.
Price: $35.00
Pages: 294
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
Publication Date:
11 March 1997
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780231084352
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
Examines masculinity from a historical and psychological perspective, lingering on how society's and men's attitudes toward homosexuality have changed over the years.... The subject... is well researched and skillfully presented.
— New York Times Book Review
— New York Times Book Review
ELISABETH BADINTER, internationally known feminist philosopher and historian, teaches at the École Polytechnique in Paris. LYDIA DAVIS is the author of Almost No Memory.