Being a Man

The women’s movement has brought profound change to the lives of men – to their marriages, their working lives, their perception of their lovers, their children, and to themselves and their expectations of women. Yet what has there been by way of a serious male response to the feminist challenge? In Being a Man, David Cohen provides a thoughtful, sometimes amusing, discussion of the changing position of men in society.Cohen combines his personal history and reactions to feminism with a review of existing ideas. In so doing he outlines a way forward to overcome the entrenched positions within the feminist debate. At the same time, he emphasizes the excessive role that work plays in men’s lives, and the many vicissitudes that relationships can bring in post-feminist times.Cohen draws together these strands to give a critical view of the pleasures and pains of being a man today. He has successfully combined the personal with the psychological in a book that will ring true among both male and female readers, as well as making a relevant contribution to the study of psychology, sociology, and women’s studies.