Foreword by Raewyn Connell Introduction to the third, revised edition Introduction to the original edition Acknowledgements Preamble to Chapter 1 - The View from 2007 1 Look Back in Anger: Men in the Fifties Preamble to Chapter 2 - The View from 2007 2 The Good Father: Reconstructing Fatherhood Preamble to Chapter 3 - The View from 2007 3 Shrinking the Phallus: Contemporary Research on Masculinity (I) Preamble to Chapter 4 - The View from 2007 4 Asserting Phallic Mastery: Contemporary Research on Masculinity ( II) Preamble to Chapter 5 - The View from 2007 5 Competing Masculinities (I): Manliness - The Masculine Ideal Preamble to Chapter 6 - The View from 2007 6 Competing Masculinities (II):Traitors to the Cause Preamble to Chapter 7 -The View from 2007 7 Competing Masculinities (III): Black Masculinity and the White Man's Black Man Preamble to Chapter 8 - The View from 2007 8 The Belly of the Beast (I): Sex as Male Domination? Preamble to Chapter 9 - The View from 2007 9 The Belly of the Beast (II): Explaining Male Violence Preamble to Chapter 10 - the View from 2007 10 Beyond Gender Hierarchy: Can Men Change? Notes and Bibliographical references Index