Introduction

Mass culture generally assumes there is a fixed, true masculinity beneath the ebb and flow of daily life. We hear of ‘real men’, ‘natural man’, the ‘deep masculine’. This idea is now shared across an impressive spectrum including the mythopoetic men’s movement, Jungian psychoanalysts, Christian fun...

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Hauptverfasser: Gros, Emmeline, Preher, Gérald
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Sprache:Anglais
Veröffentlicht: Babel 2016
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Zusammenfassung:Mass culture generally assumes there is a fixed, true masculinity beneath the ebb and flow of daily life. We hear of ‘real men’, ‘natural man’, the ‘deep masculine’. This idea is now shared across an impressive spectrum including the mythopoetic men’s movement, Jungian psychoanalysts, Christian fundamentalists, sociobiologists and the essentialist school of feminism.(R.W. Connell 5) Masculinity is boring; or, rather, as Wan Chuan Kao remarks, particular types of masculinities may “pass thems...