Rejecting the vocabulary and presuppositions common in Western talk
about men, this book considers the ways in which men see, speak
about, and understand themselves. Based on the author's experience
of teaching young men at a military academy and drawing on a range
of theory, it identifies a disconnect between academic discourses
on "masculinity," based as these are on theoretical positions that
describe the world from a position of "outsidership," and the
reality of most men's experience-or, the way in which men see
themselves. With an erroneous view of men dominating the airwaves,
most men simply fail to engage, leaving the mistaken conceptions of
masculinity to circulate and allowing policies to develop that
treat men as predators and aggressors. Presenting insights into
masculinity drawn from experience with young men drawn toward
military life, Masculinity from the Inside seeks to address the
gulf between scholarly understandings of men and men's own
understandings of themselves. It will therefore appeal to scholars
and students of sociology, cultural studies, and gender studies, to
anyone with interests in contemporary masculinity and the question
of what it means to be a man.
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