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Masculinity Studies and Feminist Theory
Judith Kegan Gardiner (Ed.)
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Description for Masculinity Studies and Feminist Theory
Paperback. Addresses questions about the analysis and construction of masculinity in contemporary society. This book examines the ways male privilege and power are constituted and represented and explores the effect of such constructions on both men and women. It links the analysis of masculinities with feminism's ethical and political agenda. Editor(s): Gardiner, Judith Kegan. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 544.
Why is there so much talk of a crisis of masculinity? How have ideas of manhood been transformed by feminism? Does feminism hold the key to the development of more egalitarian forms of masculinity? Masculinity Studies and Feminist Theory addresses central questions about the analysis and construction of masculinity in contemporary society. The volume examines the ways male privilege and power are constituted and represented and explores the effect of such constructions on both men and women. With subjects ranging from Robert Bly's Iron John to Tom Hank's niceness, this collection overturns old paradigms about identity, ... Read more
Why is there so much talk of a crisis of masculinity? How have ideas of manhood been transformed by feminism? Does feminism hold the key to the development of more egalitarian forms of masculinity? Masculinity Studies and Feminist Theory addresses central questions about the analysis and construction of masculinity in contemporary society. The volume examines the ways male privilege and power are constituted and represented and explores the effect of such constructions on both men and women. With subjects ranging from Robert Bly's Iron John to Tom Hank's niceness, this collection overturns old paradigms about identity, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
Weight
544g
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231122795
SKU
V9780231122795
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About Judith Kegan Gardiner (Ed.)
Judith Kegan Gardiner is professor of English and gender and women's studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. An editor of the journal Feminist Studies, she is the author of Rhys, Stead, Lessing, and the Politics of Empathy and editor of Provoking Agents: Gender and Agency in Theory and Practice.
Reviews for Masculinity Studies and Feminist Theory
With this volume, 'masculinity studies'comes of age as an intellectual field both in dialogue with and in alliance with feminist theory. Judith Kegan Gardiner has assembled some of the most distinguished practitioners of both masculinity studies and feminist theory working in universities today and they have collectively thought through the different ways in which feminist theory and masculinity are related. ... Read more