Is There a Cure for Masculinity?

Author(s) : Adam Jukes

Book Details

Publisher : Free Association Books
Published : January 2010
Cover : Paperback
Pages : 240
Category :
Psychoanalysis
Catalogue No : 30084
ISBN 13 : 9781853432095
ISBN 10 : 1853432091

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Have you ever wondered?

* Why it's so hard to get close to a man.

* Why don't men express emotions except big ones like anger and frustration?

* Why most perversion is male; why most pornography is produced by men for men? Risk taking is male; drinking, drug taking, gambling and infidelity are predominantly the preserve of men?

* Why most criminal behaviour is perpetrated by men? Why the vast majority of domestic abuse and violence is perpetrated by men?

* Why men are so concerned with the size of their penis and its symbolic substitutes - big, powerful cars, status, big houses, big money, and big muscles?

* Why can't men tolerate vulnerability?

* Why men lie, don't listen, don't do housework, parenting?

The answers to all these questions is the aim of this book.

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The author asks what it means to be a man, and what part masculinity play in men's identity. What is it like to have to spend so much time and energy in managing that identity? Adam Jukes has spent most of his professional life working with troubled and disturbed men, and in 1984 he opened one of the world's first treatment centres to address men's abusive and violent behaviour towards women, from verbal and emotional abuse through to stalking and murder. In the following decades that work developed into a clinical examination of masculinity, and the author now shares his insights and conclusions with the reader. Jukes' conclusions about what constructs masculinity and how it develops may be unpalatable to some but it is also thought provoking and intriguing to anyone who has an interest in these issues - whether professional or personal, male or female, wife or lover, sister or brother, husband or father.