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- Since the seventeenth century, male social representation has begun a progressive process of cultural devaluation that extends itself to the present day; the author analyzes how this has happened using Greek and literary myths and also points out the relationship between male violence and the devaluation of the social role of men.
- Violence and its main victims have no race, social class or sexual orientation, but they do have sex; violence kills more men than women.
- Male violence feeds on suffering that could not be understood and expressed by words; male violence is pain put into action.
- Contemporary society uses the devaluation of male social representation as the basis around which it creates its new sexual identities.
- Boys are left without a male social representation of which they can be proud.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: From Tarzan to Homer Simpson
Book Subtitle: Education and the Male Violence of the West
Authors: Sócrates Nolasco
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-035-6
Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-94-6351-035-6Published: 09 June 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: CCII, 16
Topics: Education, general