The Man Problem
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The Man Problem

Destructive Masculinity in Western Culture

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The Man Problem

Destructive Masculinity in Western Culture

About this book

In The Man Problem, Ross Honeywill posits that the potential for evil in all men is the social, political, and economic problem of our age. Drawing on the work of social critics and theorists including Zygmunt Bauman, Karl Marx, Hannah Arendt, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean Baudrillard, Slavoj Žižek, and others, the book traces destructive masculinity through cultural texts, social systems, and everyday life practices. Using the lens of social theory, social philosophy, feminist cultural studies, and sociology, The Man Problem explores the legacy of the Enlightenment as a context for a social world constructed by men (in modernity), deconstructed (in postmodernity) and reconstructed (in the liquid present). This book investigates the outlines of the patriarchy and why the men who legitimate it behave the way they do. Despite the troubled and troubling legacy of masculinity, Honeywill reveals an alternative path forward.

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Information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9781137551689
eBook ISBN
9781137551696
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Critical Theory
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Table of Contents
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction
  10. Section I Modernity: Its Birth and Death
  11. 1-1 The Politics of Exclusion: Enlightenment Masculinity
  12. 1-2 God Does Not Play Dice: Modernity, a Masculine Enterprise
  13. 1-3 Tyrant or Hangman: The Evil of Ordinary Men
  14. 1-4 Two Genocides: The Sins of Modernity
  15. 1-5 End of Modernity: The Radical Dimension of Normality
  16. Section II Oedipal Schism: Whence Destructive Masculinity
  17. 2-1 Being Human: Biological Determinism
  18. 2-2 Gender: Sex and Gender . . . and the Psyche
  19. 2-3 Difference and Discrimination: Men Subjugating Women
  20. 2-4 Savage Torpor: Moral Blindness
  21. 2-5 Oedipal Schism: The Origin of Destructive Masculinity
  22. 2-6 Rape: Men Choosing Emptiness
  23. Section III Postmodernity: Its Birth and Death
  24. 3-1 Certitude and Contingency: A Segue to Postmodernity
  25. 3-2 Denial of Legitimacy: The Destructive Beast in Postmodernity
  26. 3-3 Enabling Fictions: Postmodernism Thrives as Postmodernity Falters
  27. 3-4 End of Postmodernity: The Threat to Mother Earth
  28. Section IV The Liquid Present
  29. 4-1 After Postmodernity: The Liquid Present
  30. 4-2 Knowledge Culture + Monoculture: A Bifurcated Society
  31. 4-3 The One-Gendered State: Women Reinventing Themselves
  32. 4-4 Masculinities: Beyond Men, Beyond Help?
  33. 4-5 The Moral Phene: Not the Selfish Gene
  34. 4-6 Now I Am Become Death: The Man Problem-Solvers
  35. Notes
  36. References
  37. Index