What a Man's Gotta Do: The Masculine Myth in Popular Culture

Although images of women in the mass media have been widely discussed in recent years, there is no equivalent analysis of men. Once again masculinity seems to have succeeded in passing itself off as universal and invisible. In "What a Man's Gotta Do" Antony Easthope argues that, far from being universal, the maine tradition of masculinity in the West is both specific and peculiar....