Love and Intimacy in Men's Lives

Abstract

Why is it that the theme men and love has not been an issue within masculinities studies? Further, where should we look if we want to pursue the theme that men and love are not a contradictio in adjecto, but connected? By reading through central texts within the critical study of men, this essay shows that love is glimmering with its absence, except in the history of homosexual love between men. Love seems to be difficult to deal with in studies on men and gender. As a second part of the essay the author shows, through three different cases, how men and love could be seen as intertwined and as a possible motivator for transgressing patriarchal boundaries.

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