Slow Motion
Journal Data
| Type | SOURCE_BOOK |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan Limited |
| ISBN-13 | 9780230582521 |
| Open Library | OL27331370W |
| Total publications | 11 |
| Coverage period | 2007 - 2007 |
| Language | EN |
| Cited by | 156 |
| h-index | 1 |
| i10-index | 1 |
In this revised classic text, Segal's overview of theories of masculinity considers continuities and change in hegemonic notions of masculinity and focuses on competing male identities, exemplified in
Competing Masculinities (III)
‘Ugly’, indeed, unbelievably ugly, were all the fruits of white men’s four centuries of contact with Africa. Marlow’s depiction of the people of Africa in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness was, in many ways, more sophisticated than that of his contemporaries and predecessors. He thought he could detect a kinship with the ‘black beast’ of Africa created by the European imagination; others could not. One way of delving deeper into the fractured features o…
The Good Father
Sometimes, in the life of every man, the weight of male tradition must prove burdensome. We are now used to hearing of some of these burdens: men die younger than women; they are more prone to coronary disease; they find it difficult to seek help when they need it — regarding illness, for example, as a sign of weakness: something to be denied. A small but significant number of men have publicly declared their commitment to breaking out of the tra…
Competing Masculinities (II)
For Angus Suttie desiring men rather than women was at first even more painful than growing up in a working-class family in Scotland in the fifties and sixties: ‘Society told me ... I was despicable, and so I thought everyone like me was despicable ... I despised them as I despised myself.’2 Most men may never be quite free of anxiety over whether they are man enough. But only some men are systematically oppressed by the dominant conceptions of m…
The Belly of the Beast (II)
‘I have never been free of the fear of rape,’ Susan Griffin declared in a memorable article in the radical Californian magazine Ramparts back in 1971, adding: ‘I never asked why men raped; I simply thought it one of the many mysteries of human nature.’ 1 Decades later, decades during which feminists have repeatedly asked the question, devoting books and articles to finding the answer — the puzzle of men’s cruelty to women remains only just a litt…
Competing Masculinities (I)
‘Being a man,’ we learn from Norman Mailer, ‘is the continuing battle of one’s life.’2 Like the Arthurian knight at arms, forever at war, with oneself, with women, with honour, the contemporary guardians of true manhood still believe that living one’s life as a man involves toughness, struggle and conquest. Man is forever at war because, as Mailer once again informs us, he ‘can hardly ever assume he has become a man’.3 To understand men’s contemp…
The Belly of the Beast (I)
‘Man is complicated’, Catherine Stimpson announces, introducing one of the early North American texts in ‘Men’s Studies’.3 The more we explore the social and historical dimensions of masculinity, the more it is revealed as heterogeneous and contradictory. It is defined primarily through a series of hierarchical relations: rejection and suppression of femininity and homosexual desire, command and control over (often seen as ‘protection of’) the ‘w…
Asserting Phallic Mastery
It is within the journals and texts of cultural studies, rather than those of psychology, that the ‘phallus’ has been most tirelessly tracked down as the ubiquitous symbolic representation of the penis, and hence of male power. One of the predominant influences on this work has been the writings of Jacques Lacan.
Shrinking the Phallus
Until recently the idea of masculinity, to the extent that it was discussed at all, seemed relatively straightforward. What was not written in the genes was, increasingly from the 1940s, understood to be bred in the social expectations of ‘sex roles’. Today, however, in the light of the complex input from psychoanalytic thinking and feminism, men and masculinity have become more mysterious, more perplexing and worrying. For some at least, ‘mascul…
Beyond Gender Hierarchy
Approaching her 70th year in 1982, the US novelist and critic Elizabeth Janeway wrote of the revolution she had witnessed in her own lifetime — a revolution centred on gender: ‘We were part of a reversal of history, an absolute shift in the quality of reality.’1 Born in 1913, the first half of her life had been a time when ‘hopes existed only in the masculine mode’: ‘We copied men in our dreams because there was no one else to copy.’2 What is mos…
Look Back in Anger
‘A new hero has risen among us’, wrote Walter Allen in his influential review of Kingsley Amis’s first novel, Lucky Jim, in January 1954.2 The new hero is male, the ‘intellectual tough’ or ‘tough intellectual’. He is rude, crude and clumsy, boasts his political apathy, his suspicion of all causes, and he is out to do nobody any good but himself. His heroism consists in the fact that he is honestly self-serving, fiercely critical of all he sees as…
Slow Motion
In this revised classic text, Segal's overview of theories of masculinity considers continuities and change in hegemonic notions of masculinity and focuses on competing male identities, exemplified in
Slow Motion
In this revised classic text, Segal's overview of theories of masculinity considers continuities and change in hegemonic notions of masculinity and focuses on competing male identities, exemplified in
Competing Masculinities (III)
‘Ugly’, indeed, unbelievably ugly, were all the fruits of white men’s four centuries of contact with Africa. Marlow’s depiction of the people of Africa in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness was, in many ways, more sophisticated than that of his contemporaries and predecessors. He thought he could detect a kinship with the ‘black beast’ of Africa created by the European imagination; others could not. One way of delving deeper into the fractured features o…
The Good Father
Sometimes, in the life of every man, the weight of male tradition must prove burdensome. We are now used to hearing of some of these burdens: men die younger than women; they are more prone to coronary disease; they find it difficult to seek help when they need it — regarding illness, for example, as a sign of weakness: something to be denied. A small but significant number of men have publicly declared their commitment to breaking out of the tra…
Competing Masculinities (II)
For Angus Suttie desiring men rather than women was at first even more painful than growing up in a working-class family in Scotland in the fifties and sixties: ‘Society told me ... I was despicable, and so I thought everyone like me was despicable ... I despised them as I despised myself.’2 Most men may never be quite free of anxiety over whether they are man enough. But only some men are systematically oppressed by the dominant conceptions of m…
The Belly of the Beast (II)
‘I have never been free of the fear of rape,’ Susan Griffin declared in a memorable article in the radical Californian magazine Ramparts back in 1971, adding: ‘I never asked why men raped; I simply thought it one of the many mysteries of human nature.’ 1 Decades later, decades during which feminists have repeatedly asked the question, devoting books and articles to finding the answer — the puzzle of men’s cruelty to women remains only just a litt…
Competing Masculinities (I)
‘Being a man,’ we learn from Norman Mailer, ‘is the continuing battle of one’s life.’2 Like the Arthurian knight at arms, forever at war, with oneself, with women, with honour, the contemporary guardians of true manhood still believe that living one’s life as a man involves toughness, struggle and conquest. Man is forever at war because, as Mailer once again informs us, he ‘can hardly ever assume he has become a man’.3 To understand men’s contemp…
The Belly of the Beast (I)
‘Man is complicated’, Catherine Stimpson announces, introducing one of the early North American texts in ‘Men’s Studies’.3 The more we explore the social and historical dimensions of masculinity, the more it is revealed as heterogeneous and contradictory. It is defined primarily through a series of hierarchical relations: rejection and suppression of femininity and homosexual desire, command and control over (often seen as ‘protection of’) the ‘w…
Asserting Phallic Mastery
It is within the journals and texts of cultural studies, rather than those of psychology, that the ‘phallus’ has been most tirelessly tracked down as the ubiquitous symbolic representation of the penis, and hence of male power. One of the predominant influences on this work has been the writings of Jacques Lacan.
Shrinking the Phallus
Until recently the idea of masculinity, to the extent that it was discussed at all, seemed relatively straightforward. What was not written in the genes was, increasingly from the 1940s, understood to be bred in the social expectations of ‘sex roles’. Today, however, in the light of the complex input from psychoanalytic thinking and feminism, men and masculinity have become more mysterious, more perplexing and worrying. For some at least, ‘mascul…
Beyond Gender Hierarchy
Approaching her 70th year in 1982, the US novelist and critic Elizabeth Janeway wrote of the revolution she had witnessed in her own lifetime — a revolution centred on gender: ‘We were part of a reversal of history, an absolute shift in the quality of reality.’1 Born in 1913, the first half of her life had been a time when ‘hopes existed only in the masculine mode’: ‘We copied men in our dreams because there was no one else to copy.’2 What is mos…
Look Back in Anger
‘A new hero has risen among us’, wrote Walter Allen in his influential review of Kingsley Amis’s first novel, Lucky Jim, in January 1954.2 The new hero is male, the ‘intellectual tough’ or ‘tough intellectual’. He is rude, crude and clumsy, boasts his political apathy, his suspicion of all causes, and he is out to do nobody any good but himself. His heroism consists in the fact that he is honestly self-serving, fiercely critical of all he sees as…
Slow Motion
In this revised classic text, Segal's overview of theories of masculinity considers continuities and change in hegemonic notions of masculinity and focuses on competing male identities, exemplified in