White men still hold most of the political and economic cards in the United States; yet stories about wounded and traumatized men dominate popular culture. Why are white men jumping on the victim bandwagon? Examining novels by Philip Roth, John Updike, James Dickey, John Irving, and Pat Conroy and such films as Deliverance, Misery, and Dead Poets Society -- as well as other writings, including The Closing of the American Mind -- Sally Robinson argues that white men are tempted by the possibilities of pain and the surprisingly pleasurable tensions that come from living in crisis.
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Marked Men: White Masculinity in Crisis is an intelligent, wide-ranging, clearly argued and thoroughly femnist book about the shifting meanings of dominant masculinity in American culture....Robinson makes appropriate but not heavy-handed use of other theorists and literary critics, often developing their insights in original directions....Robinson is an astute critic of cultural images.
(Judith Kegan Gardiner The Women's Review of Books )White men have it all, except the hardship of having to live in a world dominated by white men. Sally Robinson argues, with shocking originality... that they now want that too: Through victimization, we find the tensions that make us most alive.
(Jonathon Keats San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle Book Review )Review
In the past two decades, white men have proclaimed themselves the new victims -- buffeted by feminism and other forces out of their control, and often even 'falling down.'In this textured and nuanced reading of central works from that era, Sally Robinson helps us understand the crisis of white masculinity and thus chart a course away from victimhood and towards accountability.
(Michael Kimmel, author of Manhood in America )
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In a 1974 self-help book entitled The Male Dilemma: How to Survive the Sexual Revolution, Anne Steinmann and David J. Fox describe the "pain of transition" suffered by ordinary Middle American men attempting to come to terms with the radical changes wrought by the civil rights and sexual liberation movements. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
hysterical male body, white male authorship, blocked masculinity, penis wisdom, wounded white men, male inexpressivity, white masculinity, feminized mass culture, white male victim, masochistic narratives, wounded white man, male liberationists, wounded masculinity, liberation discourse, dominant masculinity, primitive masculinity, white male bodies, disposable sex, emotional constipation, liberationist discourses, male impulses, white male body, male pain, male release, pale males Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Rabbit Redux, Illiberal Education, The Closing of the American Mind, The World According, Ellen Jamesians, The Prince of Tides, United States, Dead Poets Society, Paul Sheldon, Warren Farrell, Third World, The Water-Method Man, Misery's Return, Peter Tarnopol, African American, Annie Wilkes, Boorman's Deliverance, Dickey's Deliverance, Fast Cars, Kaja Silverman, Michael Milton, Susan Lowenstein, Barbra Streisand, Harry Angstrom, Merrill Overturf New!
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In a 1974 self-help book entitled The Male Dilemma: How to Survive the Sexual Revolution, Anne Steinmann and David J. Fox describe the "pain of transition" suffered by ordinary Middle American men attempting to come to terms with the radical changes wrought by the civil rights and sexual liberation movements. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
hysterical male body, white male authorship, blocked masculinity, penis wisdom, wounded white men, male inexpressivity, white masculinity, feminized mass culture, white male victim, masochistic narratives, wounded white man, male liberationists, wounded masculinity, liberation discourse, dominant masculinity, primitive masculinity, white male bodies, disposable sex, emotional constipation, liberationist discourses, male impulses, white male body, male pain, male release, pale males Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Rabbit Redux, Illiberal Education, The Closing of the American Mind, The World According, Ellen Jamesians, The Prince of Tides, United States, Dead Poets Society, Paul Sheldon, Warren Farrell, Third World, The Water-Method Man, Misery's Return, Peter Tarnopol, African American, Annie Wilkes, Boorman's Deliverance, Dickey's Deliverance, Fast Cars, Kaja Silverman, Michael Milton, Susan Lowenstein, Barbra Streisand, Harry Angstrom, Merrill Overturf New!
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- The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom on 19 pages
- Rabbit Redux by John Updike on 16 pages
- My Life As a Man (Vintage International) by Philip Roth on 13 pages
- The Prince of Tides: A Novel by Pat Conroy on 11 pages
- The World According to Garp by John Irving on 11 pages
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- Masculinity Studies and Feminist Theory by Judith Kegan Gardiner on 8 pages
- Blood Relations: Chosen Families In Buffy The Vampire Slayer And Angel by Jes Battis on page 22, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Screening Gender, Framing Genre: Canadian Literature into Film by Peter Dickinson on page 207, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Masculinity and Men's Lifestyle Magazines (Sociological Review Monographs) by Bethan Benwell in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- New Testament Masculinities (Society of Biblical Literature Semeia Studies) by Stephen Moore in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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