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End of Masculinity: The Confusion of Sexual Genesis and Sexual Difference in Modern Society
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Product Description
This book explains why both popular and academic commentators have found it impossible to define masculinity. It is because no such thing exists. Re-examining the ideas of thinkers such as Sigmund Freud and Thomas Hobbes, the author shows that modern societies faced the novel problem of explaining how men and women had equal rights, yet led such different lives, and solved it by inventing the concept of masculinity.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #860704 in Books
- Published on: 1998-02-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 168 pages
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About the Author
John MacInnes in currently Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh, where he teaches and researches in the areas of men and masculinity, industrial sociology and the mass media in Scotland. He is the author of many books and articles including Thatcherism at Work (1987). He previously worked at first as a research fellow and then as a lecturer at the University of Glasgow.
