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- Title
Writing About Men: Mythopoets and Qualitative Researchers.
- Authors
Karides, Marina
- Abstract
This article focuses on three books, "Fierce and Tender Men: Sociological Aspects of the Men's Movement," by Clinton J. Jesser, "Unlocking the Iron Cage: The Men's Movement, Gender Politics, and American Culture," by Michael Shwalbe and "Warriors and Wildmen: Men, Masculinity, and Gender," by Stephen Wicks. In examining the conditions surrounding contemporary manhood, the three books comment on the mythopoetic men's movement. Initiating in the late 1980s, the mythopoetic movement is based on Jungian psychology with a particular emphasis on the construction of identity by archetypes, collectively inherited unconscious patterns universally present in individual psyches. Schwalbe's insightful analyses reveal that men were attracted to Jungian psychology in part because it helps them feel better about themselves as men who did not live up to the standards traditional masculinity. Jesser offers a very different presentation of the men's movement than Schwalbe. Rather than providing a sociological analysis of the men's movement, Jesser begins by briefly describing a number of troublesome issues in men's lives and then offers instructions for the formation of men's support groups as a prescriptive for ending men's isolation.
- Subjects
FIERCE &; Tender Men (Book); UNLOCKING the Iron Cage (Book); WARRIORS &; Wildmen: Men, Masculinity &; Gender (Book); JESSER, Clinton J.; SHWALBE, Michael; WICKS, Stephen; MEN'S movement
- Publication
Qualitative Sociology, 1998, Vol 21, Issue 2, p205
- ISSN
0162-0436
- Publication type
Book Review
- DOI
10.1023/A:1023442829638