Steven Seidman, Alan Frank

Psychoanalysis and Contemporary American Men

Gender Identity in a Time of Uncertainty

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Debate over gender and especially the lives of men is currently at a fever pitch, particularly in the United States. Psychoanalysis and Contemporary American Men challenges narrow stereotyped views of men by arguing that men are as complex and layered as women.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 395g
• ISBN-13: 9781138328518
• ISBN-10: 1138328510
• Artikelnr.: 54744693

Autorenporträt

Steven Seidman has written widely in the areas of gender, sexuality, queer studies, and American culture. His books include Romantic Longings: Love in America 1830-1980, Embattled Eros: Sexual politics and Ethics in Contemporary America, and Beyond the Closet: The Transformation of Gay and Lesbian Life. He is currently a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City, USA. Alan Frank co-edited Intimacies: A New World of Relational Life (Routledge, 2013). He is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Chapter 1: Gender Uncertainty in 21st Century America:
Psychoanalysis Widens the Conversation Chapter 2: Straight Families Making
Straight Boys: Phallic and Relational Threads in Boys' Early Lives Chapter
3: Gay Boyhoods and Fathers: The Gay Oedipus & Beyond Chapter 4:
Authenticity: Men's Struggle to Live an Ethical Life Chapter 5: Between
Abjection and the Ecstatic: The Erotic Lives of Men Chapter 6: Intimate
Knots: The Unconscious Dynamics of Intimacies Afterword: A Transsituated
Perspective on Bodies and Genders