Digby Love and War

How Militarism Shapes Sexuality and Romance
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-231-53840-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 127 mm x 203 mm

An exploration of gender as both a weapon and casualty of war.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Digby, Tom

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
1. Battle of the Sexes: Why Is Heterosexual Love So Hard?
2. Let's Make a Deal: The Heterosexual Economy Falls Off a Cliff
3. How to Make a Warrior: Misogyny and Emotional Toughness in the Construction of Masculinity
4. Keeping the Battle of the Sexes Alive: Faith and Fantasy
5. Can Men Rescue Heterosexual Love? More Faith and Fantasy
6. Gender Terrorism, Gender Sacrifice: Getting Beyond Zero-Sum Heterosexuality
7. The Degendering of War: War Loses Its Sex
8. The Demilitarizing of Gender: A Truce in the Battle of the Sexes?
Notes
Index

Leseproben

Read the third chapter, "How to Make a Warrior":

Über Autor(innen)

Tom Digby is professor of philosophy at Springfield College in Massachusetts. He has written, lectured, and taught about gender for more than twenty-five years. His multimedia talks about the intersections of love, masculinity, and war have been given at numerous colleges and universities. His previous book is Men Doing Feminism.