John MacInnes

End of Masculinity

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* Why does masculinity seem obvious yet prove impossible to define?* What has caused the erosion of men's power and will progress towards sexual equality continue?* How political is the personal?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. It concludes that strong forces in… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-335-19658-6
EAN: 9780335196586
Produktnummer: 23144179
Verlag: Open University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
Seitenangabe: 178 S.
Masse: H22.8 cm x B15.3 cm x D1.0 cm 270 g
Gewicht: 270
Sonstiges: Tertiary Education (US: College)

Über den Autor

John MacInnes in currently Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh, where he teaches and researches in the areas of men and masculinity, industrial sociology and the mass media in Scotland. He is the author of many books and articles including Thatcherism at Work (1987). He previously worked at first as a research fellow and then as a lecturer at the University of Glasgow.