Responding to men in crisis
Subtitle: masculinities, distress, and the postmodern political landscape
By: Brian Taylor.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Abingdon; New York, NY
Language: eng
Subjects: Men -- Mental health; Men -- Psychology; Gender identity -- Political aspects; Masculinity; Postmodernism; Men -- psychology; Psychiatry; Attitude to Health; Feminism; Gender Identity; Postmodernism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Approaching the politics of complexity; title: Why postmodernism? Conceptualising the politics of complexity; title: Genealogy and biography - how we become who we are; title: Behold in me the tyrant of Turin! Nietzsche, madness, and postmodernism; title: The scream of life itself? Language and power in the life of Antonin Artaud; title: Deconstructing sovereignty; the post-revolutionary toolbox of Michel Foucault; title: Like a marble guest - the nervous illness of Daniel Paul Schreber; title: Politics and experience, engaging with complex subjectivity; title: Masculinities and risk - negotiating the politics of complexity; title: Reconstructing men's lives - power/knowledge, personal recovery, and social transformation.