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Informationen zum Autor Bob Pease is in the School of Social Science and Planning, RMIT University Klappentext One of the most central issues for women's prospects for equality is whether man can and will change. Changing the social relations of gender will involve changing men's subjectives as well as their daily practices. This book asks whether this is possible. Bob Pease aims to develop strategies that will promote the process of change towards equality in gender relations. Drawing on a critical postmodern theoretical framework, he argues that it is possible for men to reposition themselves in patriarchal discourses and to reformulate their interests in challenging gender domination. Zusammenfassung Recreating Men asks whether men can and will change in response to the changing role of women. This critique of patriarchal dominance is presented from the perspective and experience of white! heterosexual profeminist men. It examines how men who are supportive of feminism! are responding to the feminist challenge. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Men, Masculinities and Feminism PART ONE: THEORIZING MEN AND PATRIARCHY The `Man Question¿ in Feminism and the New Men¿s Studies Postmodern Feminism and the Critical Study of Men PART TWO: RECREATING MASCULINE SUBJECTIVITIES Constructing Profeminist Subjectivities Recreating Sonhood Recreating Heterosexualities PART THREE: TRANSFORMING MASCULINITY POLITICS Men¿s Movement Politics Alliance Politics The Politics of Men¿s Interests Conclusion Postmodern Masculinity Politics
