Manhood Acts

Gender and the Practices of Domination

Michael Schwalbe (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2014
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-61205-546-6 (ISBN)

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Radically reclaims gender studies by revitalising radical feminism by claiming that gender is a field of domination - economic as well as social.

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.

Michael Schwalbe is Professor of Sociology at North Carolina State University. He is the author of many books, including The Sociologically Examined Life: Pieces of the Conversation (2007).

Chapter 1 Gender Theory after Auschwitz; Chapter 2 The Masculinities Industry; Chapter 3 Theses on Manhood Acts; Chapter 4 Drone Morality; Chapter 5 Capitalism and the Compulsions of Manhood; Chapter 6 The Limits of Trans Liberalism; Chapter 7 Feminism or Barbarism;

Erscheint lt. Verlag	20.4.2014
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	430 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sexualität / Partnerschaft
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-61205-546-X / 161205546X
ISBN-13	978-1-61205-546-6 / 9781612055466
Zustand	Neuware