This comprehensive reader offers structured guidance to the writers and works which have shaped the nature of social theory as it is practised and taught within social science. Editorial introductions give an overview of the main points at stake.
"This is the first anthology to thematize the dramatic upward and downward shifts that have created the new social theory, and to present this new and exciting body of work in a thoroughly trans-disciplinary manner. In this revised second edition readers are provided with a much…
"This is the first anthology to thematize the dramatic upward and downward shifts that have created the new social theory, and to present this new and exciting body of work in a thoroughly trans-disciplinary manner. In this revised second edition readers are provided with a much…
Gender uncertainty in 21st century America: psychoanalysis widens the conversation -- Straight families making straight boys: phallic and relational threads in boys' early lives -- Gay boyhoods and fathers: the gay Oedipus & beyond -- Authenticity: men's struggle to live an ethi…
"Debate over gender and especially the lives of men is currently at a fever pitch, particularly in the United States. New perspectives that capture the complexity of men and this rapidly changing gender landscape are therefore critical today. Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Amer…
"Debate over gender and especially the lives of men is currently at a fever pitch, particularly in the United States. New perspectives that capture the complexity of men and this rapidly changing gender landscape are therefore critical today. Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Amer…