The Masculine Mystique: The Politics of Masculinity - Hardcover

Stating that men have become victims of American societal expectations and practices and citing areas in which men are disadvantaged, a male manifesto urges readers to take action to alter their lives. Tour.

ll offers a political manifesto around which men can gather to save their lives, save their friends and families, and save the earth."
--Utne Reader
American men are in crisis. We see the consequences all around us: the alarming increase in male unemployment and homelessness, punitive custody laws deprive men of their children, and high pressure competitive jobs that leave men vulnerable to stress-related diseases and substance abuse. As Andrew Kimbrell brilliantly shows, these are not the problems of "fringe" groups or misfits, but of every man in living and working in our society.
How did this happen? How have downward mobility, negative male stereotypes, and societal indifference converged to threaten men's very lives?
Andrew Kimbrell has seen the fear that men are living with and has heard their anxious voices. From the corporate executive facing downsizing to the disenfranchized African-American, Vietnam vet, and divorced father, men are in pain. In The Mas