num_pages: 274
description: 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.
language: English
title: XY: On Masculine Identity
titlecomplete: XY: On Masculine Identity
genres: Feminism, Gender Studies, Sociology, Psychology, Academia, Gender, Nonfiction, Queer
ratings_count: 211
publisher: Columbia University Press