This book sets out to determine how much of the hype about the sensitive, post-feminist "new man" is based on fact, and why such images have proliferated in the media. McMahon focuses on the pivotal issue of men's relationship to the daily work of caring for people, revealing much confusion about the extent and the interpretation of change. Using statistical data, interview transcripts and media analysis, McMahon draws insightful distinctions between pleasure and performance, assistance and responsibility, consumption and production.
Introduction; 1. Changing Men?; Part I. The Interests of Men: 2. Having a wife: the division of labour and male right; 3. Producing men: the labour of love; Part II. The Revolving Door: 4. Stalled rhetoric: the optimistic will; 5. It's on the agenda: optimism about images; 6. The new father: the masculine new man; Part III. The Blocked Door: 7. Blocked door theory: misrecognising resistance; 8. The separated, defensive male: psychologizing sexual politics; 9. Conclusion: looking after men.
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This book sets out to determine how much of the hype about the sensitive, post-feminist "new man" is based on fact, and why such images have proliferated in the media. McMahon focuses on the pivotal issue of men's relationship to the daily work of caring for people, revealing much confusion about the extent and the interpretation of change. Using statistical data, interview transcripts and media analysis, McMahon draws insightful distinctions between pleasure and performance, assistance and responsibility, ...