Is There a Cure for Masculinity?

"The author asks what it means to be a man, and what part masculinity play in men's identity. What is it like to have to spend so much time and energy in managing that identity? Adam Jukes has spent most of his professional life working with troubled and disturbed men, and in 1984 he opened one of the world's first treatment centres to address men's abusive and violent behaviour towards women, from verbal and emotional abuse through to stalking and murder. In the following decades that work developed into a clinical examination of masculinity, and the author now shares his insights and conclusions with the reader. Jukes' conclusions about what constructs masculinity and how it develops may be unpalatable to some but it is also thought provoking and intriguing to anyone who has an interest in these issues - whether professional or personal, male or female, wife or lover, sister or brother, husband or father."--Publisher.