1st Edition
Masculinity from the Inside Gender Theory’s Missing Piece
By Bruce Fleming
Copyright 2023
142 Pages
by
Routledge
142 Pages
by
Routledge
142 Pages
by
Routledge
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Rejecting the vocabulary and presuppositions common in Western talk about men, this book considers the ways in which men see, speak about, and understand themselves. Based on the author’s experience of teaching young men at a military academy and drawing on a range of theory, it identifies a disconnect between academic discourses on “masculinity,” based as these are on theoretical positions that... Read more
Part I: Context and Method; 1. The Missing Piece; 2. Bottom Line Up Front; 3. Skin in the Game; Part II: Male Theory; 4. How Academics Get Men Wrong; 5. Gender; 6. Sexual Assault; 7. Situations; 8. Men and Porn; Part III: What Now?; 9. Becoming a Man
Biography
Bruce Fleming is Professor of English at the US Naval Academy and is the author of Running is Life: Transcending the Crisis of Modernity, Bridging the Military-Civilian Divide and What Literary Studies Could Be, and What It Is.
