masculinity

"One of the enduring images from the 2012 presidential campaign was the demise of the white American male voter as a dominant force in the political landscape. Bellowing white men fill the talk-radio airwaves. Why are they so angry? Michael Kimmel has spent hundreds of hours in the company of these angry white men-from white supremacists to men's rights activists to young students-in pursuit of an answer. Kimmel proposes a theory of aggrieved entitlement: a sense that the benefits to which white men long believed themselves entitled have been snatched from them. Kimmel locates the increase in anger with a growing social, political, and economic gender gap, twinned with an ideology of masculinity that makes America's white men feel empty and alone. Although they have been facing years of underemployment and wage stagnation, mainstream American discourse rarely discuss class issues. So when America's white men feel they've lived their lives the "right" way-worked hard-and still do not get the rewards to which they believe they are entitled, then they have to blame somebody else. Anybody else"--.

A discussion of the research conducted by the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago on the symbolism of the king, the warrior, the magician, and the lover on the masculine psyche.

Mistaken for a goon because of his large size and strength, gentle Gordon Rankin, Jr., struggles to live up to everyone's expectations until a cruel twist of fate forces him underground, where he learns that a former friend has written a satirical book based on his life.

Bly uses the Grimm fairy tale "Iron John," in which a mentor or "Wild Man" guides a young man through eight stages of male growth, to remind us of images long forgotten -- images of a vigorous masculinity, both protective and emotionally centered.

Examines the genetics that dictate the differences between men and women and includes discussions on the differences in psychology and physical attributes.

Explores the role of middle-class men in Victorian England, discussing education, child rearing, marriage, public duties, and other related topics.

Child psychologist Michael Thompson investigates the emotional development of American boys in the early twenty-first century, identifying the causes of declining grades, rising violence, and repressed emotions, and looking at what can be done to reverse the trend.