Research Catalog

Title

Slow motion : changing masculinities, changing men / Lynne Segal.

Author

Segal, Lynne.

Publication

Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

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Description

xxxvi, 320 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

'Slow Motion' tackles the prevailing feminist pessimism about men and male power. Challenging the notion of masculinity as a monolithic entity, Lynne Segal points out the contradictory and competing nature of its different forms.

Subject

• Men > Psychology
• Masculinity
• Sex role
• Men > psychology
• Gender Identity
• SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations
• SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies
• Masculinity

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-307) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword by Raewyn Connell -- Introduction to the third, revised edition -- Introduction to the original edition -- Preamble to Chapter 1 -- The View from 2007 -- 1 Look Back in Anger: Men in the Fifties -- Preamble to Chapter 2 -- The View from 2007 -- 2 The Good Father: Reconstructing Fatherhood -- Preamble to Chapter 3 -- The View from 2007 -- 3 Shrinking the Phallus: Contemporary Research on Masculinity (I) -- Preamble to Chapter 4 -- The View from 2007 -- 4 Asserting Phallic Mastery: Contemporary Research on Masculinity (II) -- Preamble to Chapter 5 -- The View from 2007 -- 5 Competing Masculinities (I): Manliness -- The Masculine Ideal -- Preamble to Chapter 6 -- The View from 2007 -- 6 Competing Masculinities (II):Traitors to the Cause -- Preamble to Chapter 7 -The View from 2007 -- 7 Competing Masculinities (III): Black Masculinity and the White Man's Black Man -- Preamble to Chapter 8 -- The View from 2007 -- 8 The Belly of the Beast (I): Sex as Male Domination? -- Preamble to Chapter 9 -- The View from 2007 -- 9 The Belly of the Beast (II): Explaining Male Violence -- Preamble to Chapter 10 -- the View from 2007 -- 10 Beyond Gender Hierarchy: Can Men Change?

ISBN

• 9780230019270 (pbk.)
• 0230019277 (pbk.)

OCLC

80332274

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library