1st Edition

Between Men and Feminism (RLE Feminist Theory) Colloquium: Papers

By David Porter Copyright 1992
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

Between Men and Feminism had its origins in a lively colloquium at St John’s College, Cambridge in 1990. It discusses how two decades of feminism have affected the ways men define their own masculinities, and how they have responded in their own social, sexual and political lives to the challenges posed by the evolving feminist critiques of patriarchy and maleness itself. The collection... Read more

List of contributors.  Acknowledgements.  Introduction David PorterPart 1: Making Space  1. Of me(n) and feminism: who(se) is the sex that writes? Joseph A. Boone  2. Why can’t a good man be sexy? Why can’t a sexy man be good? Naomi Segal  3. Men and women: the use and abuse of mutual space Andrea Spurling  Part 2. Writing Between the Lines  4. Men after feminism: sexual politics twenty years on Joseph Bristow  5. Body odor: gay male semiotics and l’ecriture feminine Gregory W. Bredbeck  6. What do men want? John Forrester  Part 3. Between Men: Finding Their Own Way  7. Men and change: reflections from a men’s group Cambridge Men’s Group  8. A gay man’s reflections on the men’s movement Martin Humphries  9. The personal, the political, the theoretical: the case of men’s sexualities and sexual violences Jeff Hearn.  Index.

Biography

Porter, David