In recent years there have been substantial changes in approaches to how genders are made and what functions genders fulfill. Most of the scholarly focus in this area has been in the areas of feminist, gay, and lesbian studies, and heterosexual masculinity - which tended to be defined by lack and absence - has not received the critical and scholarly attention these other areas have received.Heterosexual Masculinitiesrethinks a psychoanalytic tradition that has long thought of masculinity as a sort of brittle defense against femininity, softness, and emotionality. Reflecting current trends in psychoanalytic thinking, this book seeks to understand heterosexual masculinity as fluid, multiple, and emergent. The contributors to this insightful volume take new perspectives on relations between men, men's positions as fathers in relation to their sons and daughters, the clinical encounter with heterosexual men, the social contexts of masculinity, and the multiplicity of heterosexual masculine subjectivities. What to a previous generation would have appeared as pathological or defensive, we now encounter as forms of masculine subjectivity that include wishes for intimacy, receptivity, and surrender, alongside ambition and the pleasures of "phallic narcissism." --- from the publisher About the Editors: Bruce Reis, Ph.D., is on the relational faculty of the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and a Contributing EditorStudies in Gender and Sexuality. Robert Grossmark, Ph.D., is a member of the faculty at the Psychoanalytic Training Institute at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies and adjunct faculty in the Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is Clinical Supervisor at the Doctoral Programs at City University and Yeshiva University and at the Psychoanalytic Institute at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies.
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