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o^^ ,t>e Libraries Digitized by the Internet Archive 2010 in http://www.archive.org/details/menmasculinityOOplec The Patterns of Social Behavior series ZIck Rubin, Harvard University, General Editor This series brings both psychological and socio- logical perspectives to bear on the ways in which people affect one another. Each volume explores research and experience on a particular aspect of social behavior and considers its personal and social implications. Joseph Pleck received a degree in Social Relations and his doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Harvard University. He is now teaching and doing research at the Residential College and the Institute of Social Re- search, both at the University of Michigan. He has lec- tured and written widely on male sex roles and men's liberation. Jack Sawyer received degrees in mathematics from Iowa State University, psychology from Ohio State University, and industrial psychology from Purdue University, then worked as a personnel research psy- chologist with the Department of the Army. He later taught social psychology and did research at the Uni- versity of Chicago, Northwestern University, and Har- vard University. He has been active in the civil rights movement, the anti-war movement. Psychologists for Social Action, and male liberation. He is now affiliated with the Wright Institute and the University of Cali- fornia atBerkeley. To the men and women with whom we have shared or have yet to share in the joy and struggle of liberation MEN AND MASCULINITY Edited by JOSEPH H. PLECK and JACK SAWYER ASPECIRyMBOOK PRENTICE-HALL, INC., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData Pleck, Joseph H comp. Men and masculinity. (ThePatternsofsocialbehaviorseries) (ASpectrum book) Bibliography: p. — 1. Men. 2. Sexrole. 3. Men Psychology. I. Sawyer,Jack,jointcomp. II. Title. HQ1067.P6 301.41'1 74-13395 ISBN 0-13-574319-2 ISBN 0-I3-574301-X (pbk.) — ABOUTTHECOVER SIGNSANDSYMBOLSTRADITIONALLY ASSOCLATEDWITH MEN AND MASCULINITY: © 1974 BY Prentice-Hall, Inc. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey A SPECTRUM BOOK All rights reserved- No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means without permission in writing from the publisher. 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Printed in the United States of America Prentice-Hall International, Inc. (London) Prentice-Hall of Australia Pty., Ltd. (Sydney) Prentice-Hall of Canada, Ltd. (Toronto) Prentice-Hall of Indl\ Private Limited (New Delhi) Prentice-Hall of Japan, Inc. (Tokyo) CONTENTS Introduction 1 GROWBNG UP MALE 3 A Visit from Uncle Macho Brian Allen 5 Sex-Role Pressures and the Socialization of the Male Child Ruth E. Hartley 7 When I Was about Fourteen . . « Peter Candell j^ Out in Right Field ly Why Aren't We Talking? MarcFasteau ip Some Lethal Aspects of the Male Role Sidney M. Jourard 21 2 MEN AND WOMEN 30 Being a Boy Julius Lester 52 A Case of "Sexual Dysfunction' Solomon "Sam" Julty 55 VI CONTENTS Frigidity, SensitivityandSexual Roles IrvingLondon,M.D. ^i The Making of a Confused, Middle-aged Husband S. M. Miller 44 3 MEN AND CHILDREN 53 Men and Young Children Robert A. Fein 5^ Beinga"Father" 62 Michael and Me Ben Cannon 6^ Some Problems of Men in Child Care Center Work Kelvin Seifert 6^ 4 MEN AND MEN 74 About a Month Ago Michael C. j^ Peaches and Me: A Story from Prison Joseph LaBonte yy My Own Men's Liberation Jeff Keith 81 Homosexual Encounter in All-Male Groups Don Clark 88