Nina Power, "What Do Men Want?: Masculinity and Its Discontents" (Penguin, 2022)
New Books in Critical Theory
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Is There Room for a Positive Notion of Masculinity?
i'm grateful as a man, if i can out myself at thisthiss moment, that you are taking my side and and m running to my defence so much. So i wanted to suggest that there is room for a positive notion of masculinity er,. Some of the ways in which men are being discussed in terms of privilege and toxicity and the patriarchy, are a sort of inadequate er for understanding other things, which would include class, example. Yes, me know, miss, i think patriarch is also itself a positive term in some waysand whether it's analytically useful or otherwise, i think its main stream uses is largely kind of inoperative. But i think it also indicates
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