Manhood and Politics

by Wendy Brown

'Is politics gendered? Wendy Brown things so, and argues for this point with elegance, imagination and pungent phrases. Brown's book is challenging, provocative and...original; it does force us to question the degree to which gender controls our politics.'-THE REVIEW OF POLITICS

Genres: Feminism, Nonfiction, Theory, Politics, Womens, Reference, Gender

Hardcover

First published September 20, 1988

About the author

Wendy L. Brown is an American political theorist. She is Class of 1963 First Professor of Political Science and a core faculty member in The Program for Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley.

Reviews

[Sara Salem · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wendy Brown has written a fascinating book on how to read Aristotle, Machiavelli and Weber (through Hannah Arendt) with a focus on manhood, masculinity and gender relations. She shows how masculinity is part and parcel of the way these theorists understood politics, and shows how scholars who continue to rely on these understandings replicate very problematic gendered notions of what the political is or should be.

[Dagezi]

We'll see.

[Evelyn · Rating 4 out of 5]

For my Men, Psychology, and Religion class. Enlightening read about theology, philosophy, and religion.