Of Men Going Down: Masculinity in the age of sex panic and poisoned solidarities
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.65828/vq40b364Keywords:
Men, katabasis, #MeToo, poisoned solidarities, sex panicAbstract
At the origins of men's work was katabasis, a man's descent when struck by love, grief and the mourning of an absent father. Recently, the work veered towards defensive notions of masculinity, a reaction to the emergence of woke capitalism, the politics of injury and the poisoned solidarities between sections of feminism and the evangelical and political Right.
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