Slow motion
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TextPublication details: UK Virago 1997Edition: Revised editionDescription: 389p., 196 x 126mm, paperback (B format)ISBN: - 186049305X
- 305.31 SEG
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| Standard Loan | Clonmel Library Main Collection | 305.31 SEG (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | R01441AKRCC | |||
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| Standard Loan | Thurles Library Main Collection | 305.31 SEG (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | R02188XKRCT |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Written by the author of Is the Future Female? , this work looks at the ongoing feminist pessimism about men and male power. It has been revised throughout, and has a new introduction updating the debate surrounding masculinity. Throughout the 1980s, questions concerning the changing nature of men's lives and experiences have been debated with new passion and concern. From the exploration of sex roles to the study of gender and power, the psychology of men has emerged fraught with strain and crisis. Ironically, the thoughts of those seeking sexual politics to undermine men's power over women remain consistently gloomy, while the category of masculinity seems monolithic and secure. This book approaches the problem of men in a new way by not looking at masculinity, but at specific masculinities . From tough guys and martial men to camp, gay and super-macho, their differing roles are analyzed. The author argues that men can and do change, and that if we are to move on, it is vital we recognise and build on these changes, and construct a vision of a non-repressive sexual agenda for both men and women.
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.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Lynn Segal was born in 1944 in Australia. She emigrated to London in 1970 and for the next decade her main energies went into grass roots politics in Islington, North London, helping to set up and run a women's centre and an alternative newspaper. In 1979, the three friends, Segal, Sheila Rowbotham and Hilary Wainwright wrote Beyond the Fragments, arguing for broader alliances among trade unionists, feminists and left political groups. In 1984, publisher Ursula Owen invited her to join the Virago Advisory Board and write an appraisal of the state of feminism, resulting in her first book, Is the Future Female? Troubled Thoughts on Contemporary Feminism. Her next book was Slow Motion: Changing Masculinities, Changing Men. In 2015 her title, Out Of Time: The Pleasures and Perils of Aging, made The New Zealand Best Seller List.
(Bowker Author Biography)