Sexual Violence and American Manhood

Rating:
Summary: The Best Book on this Topic
Review: Herbert has created a reader-friendly, firmly historicized and interdisciplinary examination of sexually volatile and violent masculinity in America. Without blinking, he charts the social conditioning that leads to ubiquitous masculine anxiety, sublimation, and disavowal. Herbert rejects biological or essentialist notions of violent manhood and shows how certain historical, social models offer a fertile breeding ground for manhood defined through warrior-like, emotionless, competitive, and misogynist views, including our modern, American democratic model.

This text is essential for anyone interested in feminist or masculinist studies, those working with violence victims or perpetrators, women who seek answers to the tacit hostility imbedded in their closest relationships, and men who desire freedom from a suffocating, stoic, and debilitating masculinity.
In totality, a book that not only defines the problem (as too many feminist and masculinist texts) but seeks out solutions.
To date, the best book on this topic.

Rating:
Summary: The Best Book on this Topic
Review: Herbert has created a reader-friendly, firmly historicized and interdisciplinary examination of sexually volatile and violent masculinity in America. Without blinking, he charts the social conditioning that leads to ubiquitous masculine anxiety, sublimation, and disavowal. Herbert rejects biological or essentialist notions of violent manhood and shows how certain historical, social models offer a fertile breeding ground for manhood defined through warrior-like, emotionless, competitive, and misogynist views, including our modern, American democratic model.

This text is essential for anyone interested in feminist or masculinist studies, those working with violence victims or perpetrators, women who seek answers to the tacit hostility imbedded in their closest relationships, and men who desire freedom from a suffocating, stoic, and debilitating masculinity.
In totality, a book that not only defines the problem (as too many feminist and masculinist texts) but seeks out solutions.
To date, the best book on this topic.