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Title: Masculinities by R. W. Connell ISBN: 0-520-08999-5 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: May, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)
Rating: 3
Summary: Thoroughly Researched But Needs Work
Comment: I purchased this book because it had been lauded as "a powerful reply to Iron John," the mythopoetic bestseller on manhood by Robert Bly. "Masculinities" was in fact not comparable to Iron John. This book seems to lack flow for the reader, the powerful technique of storytelling for the most part is missing, and a common thread of negativity runs throughout the narrative.
I welcome an alternative viewpoint from that of traditional authors on men's issues, the men's movement, and male psychology. However, it is really one thing for a writer to put his opinion out there for the world to see, and quite another to shred the works of others who disagree with him. I do not see eye to eye with everything that Robert Bly has written in Iron John or what Sam Keen has said in Fire in the Belly. However, in their own very personal way, both men get their points on masculinity across to readers without viciously attacking other authors. In addition, Bly and Keen are gifted writers who have the unique ability to see the power of "the story." Connell apparently does not see the importance of the story, although he has plenty of interview data to construct readable and interesting stories for his readers.
Positive points: Connell has done a very good job defining hegemonic masculinity, informing his readers about the existence of a wide variety of possible masculinities, and detailing the history of the study of masculinity. A very poor storytelling technique and a negativity in his writing style weakens his book, however. And in the end, this also very much weakens a male feminist view of masculinity in general.
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Title: Gender and Power: Society, the Person and Sexual Politics by R. W. Connell ISBN: 0804714304 Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr Pub. Date: December, 1987 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Masculinity Studies and Feminist Theory by Judith Kegan Gardiner, Michael Kimmel ISBN: 0231122799 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.50 |
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Title: Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality by Anne Fausto-Sterling ISBN: 0465077145 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 22 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Title: Men's Lives (5th Edition) by Michael S. Kimmel, Michael A. Messner ISBN: 0205321054 Publisher: Pearson Allyn & Bacon Pub. Date: 21 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $55.20 |
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Title: The Masculinities Reader by Stephen Whitehead, Frank J. Barrett ISBN: 0745626890 Publisher: Polity Pr Pub. Date: February, 2002 List Price(USD): $31.95 |
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