Slow motion
- Revised edition
- UK Virago 1997
- 389p., 196 x 126mm, paperback (B format)
Revised with a new introduction updating the debate on masculinity, this work looks at the ongoing feminist pessimism about men and male power. Challenging the notion of masculinity as a monolithic entity, the author points out the contradictory and competing nature of its different forms.
Part 1 Look back in anger - men in the fifties: man about the house; maternity rules; angry young men; homophobia and the fear of unmanliness; women and the left in the fifties. Part 2 The good father - reconstructing fatherhood: God the Father - what fathers mean to us; the heart is willing; the slow pace of change; shared parenting; men who 'mother'; benefits and the costs of the new fatherhood; the problem with reasserting fatherhood; the future of fatherhood. Part 3 Shrinking the phallus - contemporary research on masculinity: searching for sex difference; the power of sex roles; introducting the unconscious; the fragility of men.