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Changing Masculinities, Changing Men

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  • © 2007

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Authors:
  1. Lynne Segal

    1. Birkbeck College, University of London, UK

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxvi
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  2. Look Back in Anger: Men in the Fifties

    • Lynne Segal
    Pages 1-20

  3. The Good Father: Reconstructing Fatherhood

    • Lynne Segal
    Pages 22-49

  4. Shrinking the Phallus: Contemporary Research on Masculinity (I)

    • Lynne Segal
    Pages 50-68

  5. Asserting Phallic Mastery: Contemporary Research on Masculinity (II)

    • Lynne Segal
    Pages 70-86

  6. Competing Masculinities (I): Manliness — The Masculine Ideal

    • Lynne Segal
    Pages 88-111

  7. Competing Masculinities (II): Traitors to the Cause

    • Lynne Segal
    Pages 112-139

  8. Competing Masculinities (III) : Black Masculinity and the White Man’s Black Man

    • Lynne Segal
    Pages 140-170

  9. The Belly of the Beast (I): Sex as Male Domination?

    • Lynne Segal
    Pages 171-194

  10. The Belly of the Beast (II): Explaining Male Violence

    • Lynne Segal
    Pages 196-226

  11. Beyond Gender Hierarchy: Can Men Change?

    • Lynne Segal
    Pages 227-260

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 261-320
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About this book

In this revised classic text, Segal's overview of theories of masculinity considers continuities and change in hegemonic notions of masculinity and focuses on competing male identities, exemplified in black, ethnic, gay and anti-sexist groups. The contrast in power and privilege across these groups has led many to speak of 'masculinity in crisis'.

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Praise for earlier editions:

'Refreshingly asserts that monolithic mouthings about 'men' and 'women' will get us nowhere... A well-informed survey of men in historical, sociological and psychological contexts' - Roy Porter

''A detailed overview of theories and writing on masculinity..dense and thoughtful' - Angela Phillips, Independent

Authors and Affiliations

  • Birkbeck College, University of London, UK

    Lynne Segal

About the author

LYNNE SEGAL is Anniversary Professor of Psychology and Gender Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. Her books include Is the Future Female? Troubled Thoughts on Contemporary Feminism, Straight Sex:The Politics of Pleasure, and Why Feminism? Gender, Psychology , Politics. She is currently writing Making Trouble: Ways of Belonging.

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