Men have grown up to identify with the public world of work. We have learned to be independent and self-sufficient. We have learned to go it alone and to do without the help of others. We have learned to identify with our work, even when it is not a matter of finding personal fulfilment but simply earning a wage. Class, racial and ethnic differences are obviously significant in men’s relationships to work, but male identity is in general an identity which is wrought within the public realm. Often there is little that prepares us for relationships, for in learning to be self-sufficient we learn to do without others. Often our very sense of male identity is sustained through our capacity for not needing the help of others. We learn to take pride in our selfsufficiency and we experience it as a sign of weakness to need the help of others. [download]
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