Inward Gaze

First published in 1992, The Inward Gaze looks at men’s fantasies and self-images from a wide range of texts (notably boy’s superhero comics, modernist literary classics, and a Freudian case-study) to discuss the theories of subjectivity, masculinity, and emotion.

The author explores the split between the experience-based claims of the men’s movement and the discourse theories of postmodernism. Doe...