Manhood Acts: Gender and the Practices of Domination

by Michael Schwalbe

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 161205546X
• ISBN13: 9781612055466
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.4"