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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826874003321

Autore

Stoltenberg John

Titolo

Refusing to be a man [[electronic resource] ] : essays on social justice / / John Stoltenberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : UCL Press, c2000

ISBN

0-203-98082-4

1-280-13889-0

1-283-60455-8

9786613917003

1-135-43395-X

Edizione

[Rev. ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (239 p.)

Disciplina

305.3/0973

Soggetti

Sex role - United States

Masculinity - United States

Sexism - United States

Men - Sexual behavior - United States

Women - Crimes against - United States

Pornography - Social aspects - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

REFUSING TO BE A MAN Essays on Sex and Justice; Copyright; Contents; Introduction to the Revised Edition; Preface; Part I: The Ethics of Male Sexual Identity; Rapist Ethics; How Men Have (a) Sex; Sexual Objectification and Male Supremacy; Part II: The Politics of Male Sexual Identity; Eroticism and Violence in the Father-Son Relationship; Disarmament and Masculinity; The Fetus as Penis: Men's Self-interest and Abortion Rights; What Is "Good Sex" ?; Part III: Pornography and Male Supremacy; The Forbidden Language of Sex; Pornography and Freedom; Confronting Pornography as a Civil-Rights Issue

Part IV: Activism and Moral SelfhoodFeminist Activism and Male Sexual Identity; Other Men; Battery and the Will to Freedom; About the Essays; Notes

Sommario/riassunto

Since its original publication in 1989, Refusing to be a Man has been



acclaimed as a classic and widely cited in gender studies literature. In 13 eloquent essays, Stoltenberg articulates the first fully argued liberation theory for men that will also liberate women.  He argues that male sexual identity is entirely a political and ethical construction whose advantages grow out of injustice.  His thesis is, however, ultimately one of hope - that precisely because masculinity is so constructed, it is possible to refuse it, to act against it and to change.  A new introduction by the autho