Book chapter
Masculinity
A Companion to Gender Studies, pp.114-131
Wiley-Blackwell
2005
Abstract
Men were once the implicit center of most political discourse, social organization, and intellectual inquiry – universal subjects of truth whose achievements, failures, milestones, foibles, and bodies were historical and biological markers of human endeavor and nature. Now, they are subject to specific attention and problematization by researchers, governments, and corporations. Feminist political, personal, and scholarly work, in particular, has been crucial in both asserting the centrality of women to social, scientific, and intellectual life, and calling on men to become objects of study as gendered subjects rather than universal models, in ways that address sexual violence, political power, conversational domination, and media attention – in short, the way of life that characterizes contemporary society and its continued privileging of male images, interests, and experiences.
Details
- Title
- Masculinity
- Authors/Creators
- T. Miller (Author/Creator)
- Contributors
- P. Essed (Editor)D.T. Goldberg (Editor)A. Kobayashi (Editor)
- Publication Details
- A Companion to Gender Studies, pp.114-131
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Identifiers
- 991005543891007891
- Copyright
- © 2005 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Murdoch University
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
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