The Inward Gaze: Masculinity and Subjectivity in Modern Culture

by Peter Middleton

Book Overview

First published in 1992, The Inward Gaze looks at men's fantasies and self-images from a wide range of texts (notably boy's superhero comics, modernist literary classics, and a Freudian case-study) to discuss the theories of subjectivity, masculinity, and emotion.

The author explores the split between the experience-based claims of the men's movement and the discourse theories of postmodernism. Does this division reveal a continuing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032897767
• ISBN13: 9781032897769
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 258 Pages