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001 2014011058
003 DLC
005 20150408081328.0
008 140331s2014 nyu 000 0 eng
010 $a 2014011058
020 $a9781627791878 (hardback)
020 $a9781627791885 (electronic book)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aHQ1090$b.K575 2014
082 00 $a155.3/32$223
084 $aSOC032000$aSOC041000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aKipnis, Laura.
245 10 $aMen :$bnotes from an ongoing investigation /$cLaura Kipnis.
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aNew York :$bMetropolitan Books,$c2014.
300 $ax, 208 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"It's no secret that men often behave in mystifying ways, but in recent years we've witnessed so many spectacular public displays of male excess--indecent politicians, sleazy academics, philandering sports stars--that we're left to wonder whether something has come unwired in the collective male psyche. In the essays collected here, Kipnis revisits the archetypes of wayward masculinity that have captured her imagination over the years: the scumbag, the con man, the critic, the obsessive, cheaters, and many others. Examining men who have figured in her own life alongside the more notorious public examples, she draws out the masculine angst and sexual contradictions implicit in the erratic conduct of each. Far from the reactions of condescension and scorn that habitually greet such characters, Kipnis finds that they provoke in her complicated forms of sympathy and identification. Pushing past the usual cliche about differences between the sexes, Kipnis mixes intellectual rigor and careful analysis to give us an honest and compelling survey of the affinities, jealousies, longings, and erotics that structure the male-female bond"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aMen$xPsychology.
650 0 $aMen$xIdentity.
650 0 $aMasculinity.
650 0 $aMan-woman relationships.
650 7 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Essays.$2bisacsh
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://www.netread.com/jcusers2/bk1388/878/9781627791878/image/lgcover.9781627791878.jpg