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From: chb@vaxine.UUCP (Kool Klezmer)
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Subject: Re: Two New Books
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Date: Thu, 12-Jul-84 13:54:14 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 12 13:54:14 1984
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[kilroy was here...]


While mentioning books, I've just finished an interesting one by Barbara
Eherenrich called "Hearts of Men".  B.E. traces the evolution of men's
consciousness from Victorian times through the gray-flannel breadwinner
model of the fifties, the beatnik and the hippie, up to the "liberated
man".  She finds that the beatnik, hippie and macho playboy model (as
exemplified by the magazine of the same name) as negative reactions to
what was perceived by men as the severe limits of the Dad-as-breadwinner
model. Unfortunately, as B.E. reasons, those reponses by men are directed
women, who are no more repsonsible for the creation and support of those
role models as men are.  Being the "fellow traveler" that she is, Eherenrich
places the blame squarely on the shoulders of the capitalist/consumerist
society (cf. Germaine Greer, Herbert Marcuse).

The last couple of chapters bring the book up to today, by discussing the
current "new liberated male" movement, which she sees as producing more
sophisicated male roles, but still roles that take advantage of women's
politically and economically disadvantage.  She also spends some pages
looking at the anti-feminist backlash movement, as represented by
Phyllis Schafly, et. al.

I heartily recommend this book to all, especially to those of us men who
thought we were of that new breed that had escaped from the limiting
traps of chauvinism.



"It aint what you look like when you're doin' what you're doin', it's what
 you're doin' when you're doin' what you look like what you're doin'"


				Charlie Berg
				Automatix, Inc.
			    ...{ima, allegra, linus}!vaxine!chb