This reply to Robert Bly's work "Iron John", offers a critical discussion of contemporary ideas of masculinity. The text moves away from the rationalist paradigm of... Læs mere
Men have responded to feminism with feelings of anxiety, guilt and unease. It has taken time for men to consider ways of changing themselves rather than hiding behind feminist rhetoric.
Seidler argues that the identification of masculinity with reason has played a central role in Western social theory and philosophy. Defined in opposition to nature, it produced a form of reason that was 'unreasonable' and restrictive.