Men's Struggles With Themselves: Stories and Theories

Reviews the book, The Male Paradox by John Munder Ross (1992). This book is a lively, thoughtful, sophisticated addition to the continuing flood of men's books seen in recent years. Essentially, the major theme of Ross's book is that men are engaged in a perpetual struggle to avoid becoming subsumed by any one of three polarities, child, woman, and beast. He views men as continuing a life-long developmental struggle to integrate a longing to be reunited with their mothers (and their alluring, threatening femininity) with the potentially terrifying aggressiveness (and possible violence and destructiveness) that goes along with being a man. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)