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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