Engendering Men: The Question of Male Feminist Criticism

by Joseph Allen Boone (Editor), Michael Cadden (Editor), Wayne Koestenbaum (Contributor)

Over the past several years, the question of men’s relation to feminism has become a fiercely and sometimes bitterly debated subject. Engendering Men demonstrates the creative impact that feminist modes of inquiry have already had on a new generation of male critics.

In the wake of feminism, many men have found it imperative to begin the task of retheorizing the male position in our culture. This collection of new essays brings together seventeen male critics whose work – on poetry, fiction, the Broadway stage, film and television, and broader cultural and psychoanalytic texts – is opening up new avenues in criticism, as well as in gender and feminist theory.

Genres: Feminism

333 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1990

Reviews

[Kevin Karpiak · Rating 3 out of 5]

Maybe it's not fair, but I always read this(perfectly intelligent)volume against a similar one edited by Jardine and Smith, Men in Feminism . The former somehow seems somehow more organic.