Xy - (European Perspectives: A Social Thought and Cultural Criticism) by Elisabeth Badinter (Paperback)

About the Book

Examining changing role models for masculine identity--from cowboy in the 1950s to Terminator in the 1990s, from flesh-and-blood man to machine--this book suggests that men need new role models and that sufficient room needs to be left for the expression of male vulnerability.

Book Synopsis

Examining changing role models for masculine identity--from cowboy in the 1950s to Terminator in the 1990s, from flesh-and-blood man to machine--this book suggests that men need new role models and that sufficient room needs to be left for the expression of male vulnerability.

Review Quotes

Examines masculinity from a historical and psychological perspective, lingering on how society's and men's attitudes toward homosexuality have changed over the years.... The subject... is well researched and skillfully presented.-- "New York Times Book Review"

About the Author

ELISABETH BADINTER, internationally known feminist philosopher and historian, teaches at the École Polytechnique in Paris. LYDIA DAVIS is the author of Almost No Memory.