Man Enough

In this book, one of the leading contributors to the growing debate about men, masculinities and sexual politics, Victor J Seidler, criticizes the Enlightenment coupling of white, heterosexual masculinity with `reason′. He argues that in modern society masculinity can never be taken for granted. Men must always prove that they are `man enough′ to cope in the `correct′ way with the problems and challenges of everyday life. Seidler believes that men have to break this...
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In this book, one of the leading contributors to the growing debate about men, masculinities and sexual politics, Victor J Seidler, criticizes the Enlightenment coupling of white, heterosexual masculinity with `reason′. He argues that in modern society masculinity can never be taken for granted. Men must always prove that they are `man enough′ to cope in the `correct′ way with the problems and challenges of everyday life. Seidler believes that men have to break this chain of obligations to the Enlightenment notion of masculinity.

Through engaging with men′s diverse relationships with their bodies, sexualities, emotional lives, feelings and desires, Seidler explores ways of affirming masculinities while critically engaging w