Manhood Acts: Gender and the Practices of Domination (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781612055466)

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.

Author: Michael Schwalbe
ISBN-10: 161205546X
ISBN-13: 9781612055466
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 01/30/2014
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.01w x 0.73d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2014 pg. 354