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050 0 0 _aBF175.5.F45
_bC74 2021
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100 1 _aCremin, Ciara.
_eAuthor.
_917783
245 1 4 _aThe Future is Feminine :
_bcapitalism and the masculine disorder /
_cby Ciara Cremin.
250 _a1st
260 _aNew York :
_bBloomsbury Academic,
_c2021.
300 _aviii, 210 p.;
_c22 cm.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
365 _b21.99
_cPound
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 _a"Carnage in the classroom, misogynists in high office, sociopaths in uniform, masculinity makes headlines and for all the wrong reasons. But the most toxic of men are an index of a broader problem with the way males are raised and learn to interact. Designated male at birth, Cremin knows what it means to be masculinised. Now she offers a trans woman's perspective on and diagnosis of what provocatively she describes a disorder. It's a disorder of the human personality reflective of the society into which we are born. Primed to be competitive and violent, and compelled to kill off parts of the self because of their feminine associations, the masculinised male, Cremin says, is suited to capitalism's monstrous and unquenchable needs. She draws on marxist and psychoanalytic theory both to diagnose the condition and also, importantly, to theorise how individually and collectively it might be overcome. Rejecting the idea that males are inherently violent and females inherently nurturing or that there's such a thing as a masculine or feminine essence, Cremin proclaims nevertheless that, as she conceives the terms, femininity is the riddle of a masculine disorder solved, and it knows itself to be this solution. The future is feminine. It must be"--
_cProvided by publisher.
650 0 _aFemininity.
_917784
650 0 _aWomen
_xPsychology.
_92018
650 0 _aMasculinity.
_917785
650 0 _aMen
_xPsychology.
_917786
650 0 _aCapitalism
_xSocial aspects.
_917787
653 _aMasculinity
653 _aMen--Psychology
653 _aWomen--Psychology
653 _aCapitalism--Social aspects
653 _aFemininity
776 0 8 _iOnline version:
_aCremin, Ciara,
_tThe future is feminine
_dNew York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.
_z9781350149786
_w(DLC) 2020055580
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