Return of the Male
Martin Amis, 5 December 1991
Iron John: A Book about Men
by Robert Bly.
Element, 268 pp., £12.95, September 1991,9781852302337 Show More
by Robert Bly.
Element, 268 pp., £12.95, September 1991,
The way men think: Intellect, Intimacy and the Erotic Imagination
by Liam Hudson and Bernadine Jacot.
Yale, 219 pp., £16.95, November 1991,0 300 04997 8 Show More
by Liam Hudson and Bernadine Jacot.
Yale, 219 pp., £16.95, November 1991,
Utne Reader. Men, it’s time to pull together: The Politics of Masculinity
Lens, 144 pp., $4, May 1991Show More
Lens, 144 pp., $4, May 1991Show More
“... In 1919, after prolonged study, the Harvard ethologist William Morton Wheeler pronounced the male wasp ‘an etiological nonentity’. An animal behaviourist had scrutinised the male wasp and found – no behaviour. We can well imagine the male wasp’s response to such a verdict: his initial shock and hurt; his descent into a period of depressed introspection; his eventual decision to improve his act ... ”
