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Manhood Acts: Gender and the Practices of Domination

By Michael Schwalbe

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2014
ISBN
161205546X, 9781612055466
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1270992 bytes)
Pages
224\213
Scanned
yes
Time added
2016-01-15 00:07:35
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Description

In Manhood Acts Michael Schwalbe offers a new perspective on the social construction of manhood and its relationship to male domination. Schwalbe argues that study of masculinity has lost touch with its feminist roots and has been seduced by the politically safe notion of 'multiple masculinities'. Manhood Acts delineates the practices males use to construct 'women' and 'men' as unequal categories. Schwalbe reclaims the radical feminist insights that gender is a field of domination, not a field of play, and that manhood is fundamentally about exerting or resisting control. Manhood Acts arrives at the conclusion that abolishing gender as a system of oppression will require more than transgressive self-presentation. It will be necessary to end the exploitive economic relationships that necessitate manhood itself.

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