masculinity and social theory
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Seidler, Victor J.
- Publish Year
- 1994
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 39 1994 - B
- Thesaurus
- mannelijkheid, theorieën, filosofie, emoties
- Description
- Seidler argues that the identification of masculinity with reason has played a central role in Western concepts of modernity, in social theory and philosophy. This alliance of masculinity and reason is also a source of power that promotes an unreasonable form of reason often used to control women, he argues. Under this belief system, emotions are deemed to be too 'personal' and 'subjective' when contrasted with the 'objectivity' of reason and are thus discounted as forms of knowledge, according to Seidler. He argues that the dominant forms of social theory have worked with a universal and impersonal conception of reason which discounts the value of experience.