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The Man Problem: Destructive Masculinity in Western Culture
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The Man Problem: Destructive Masculinity in Western Culture

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In The Man Problem, Ross Honeywill posits that the potential for evil in all men is the social, political, and economic problem of our age. Drawing on the work of social critics and theorists including Zygmunt Bauman, Karl Marx, Hannah Arendt, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean Baudrillard, Slavoj Zizek, and others, the book traces destructive masculinity through cultural texts, social systems, and everyday life practices. Using the lens of social theory, social philosophy, feminist cultural studies, and sociology, The Man Problem explores the legacy of the Enlightenment as a context for a social world constructed by men (in modernity), deconstructed (in postmodernity) and reconstructed (in the liquid present). This book investigates the outlines of the patriarchy and why the men who legitimate it behave the way they do. Despite the troubled and troubling legacy of masculinity, Honeywill reveals an alternative path forward.

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Format
Hardback
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Country
United Kingdom
Date
1 December 2015
Pages
217
ISBN
9781137551689

This title is printed to order. This book may have been self-published. If so, we cannot guarantee the quality of the content. In the main most books will have gone through the editing process however some may not. We therefore suggest that you be aware of this before ordering this book. If in doubt check either the author or publisher’s details as we are unable to accept any returns unless they are faulty. Please contact us if you have any questions.

In The Man Problem, Ross Honeywill posits that the potential for evil in all men is the social, political, and economic problem of our age. Drawing on the work of social critics and theorists including Zygmunt Bauman, Karl Marx, Hannah Arendt, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean Baudrillard, Slavoj Zizek, and others, the book traces destructive masculinity through cultural texts, social systems, and everyday life practices. Using the lens of social theory, social philosophy, feminist cultural studies, and sociology, The Man Problem explores the legacy of the Enlightenment as a context for a social world constructed by men (in modernity), deconstructed (in postmodernity) and reconstructed (in the liquid present). This book investigates the outlines of the patriarchy and why the men who legitimate it behave the way they do. Despite the troubled and troubling legacy of masculinity, Honeywill reveals an alternative path forward.

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Format
Hardback
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Country
United Kingdom
Date
1 December 2015
Pages
217
ISBN
9781137551689
 
Book Review

The Man Problem: Destructive Masculinity in Western Culture
by Ross Honeywill

by Dr James Stewart, Mar 2016

To call The Man Problem a book that challenges our normal understanding of the history of masculinity would be an understatement. Rather, The Man Problem is explosive and devastating in its analysis. It will no doubt have the effect of shocking many readers with its radical observations about the role of men in undermining Western society, the causal chain of which lies at least as far back as the Enlightenment. Ross Honeywill argues convincingly, and with frequent reference to historical and social events, that we live in a ‘liquid present.’ This liquid present is a kind of dystopian environment, where the masculine ethos has utterly destroyed modernity – a lofty, hopefully, but ultimately flawed patriarchal enterprise – such that we are now left in a crumbling, savage aftermath where women struggle against an unequal society and men are slaves to their own bestial and violent passions. Honeywill maintains that men must wrestle internally with these violent impulses and that they may be suppressed only with great toil and self-consciousness. Yet despite this terrible and seemingly irredeemable situation Honeywill allows for the possibility of a hopeful future. For those interested in philosophy, gender studies, feminism and cultural theory, The Man Problem is a new and indispensable study.


Dr James Stewart is a researcher, academic and author.