XY: On Masculine Identity

by Elisabeth Badinter, Lydia Davis (Translator)

Overview

Examining changing role models for masculine identity—from cowboy in the 1950s to Terminator in the 1990s, from flesh-and-blood man to machine—this book suggests that men need new role models and that sufficient room needs to be left for the expression of male vulnerability, a psychic space that would accept attitudes and behaviors traditionally labeled as "feminine." This new model, Badinter argues, may reduce the profound effects of homophobia and misogyny.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231084352
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	03/11/1997
Series:	European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	274
Product dimensions:	5.74(w) x 8.89(h) x 0.63(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

ELISABETH BADINTER, internationally known feminist philosopher and historian, teaches at the École Polytechnique in Paris. LYDIA DAVIS is the author of Almost No Memory.

Editorial Reviews

Examines masculinity from a historical and psychological perspective, lingering on how society's and men's attitudes toward homosexuality have changed over the years.... The subject... is well researched and skillfully presented.

New York Times Book Review