Review of Heterosexual masculinities: Contemporary perspectives from psychoanalytic gender theory.

Reviews the book, Heterosexual masculinities: Contemporary perspectives from psychoanalytic gender theory edited by Bruce Reis and Robert Grossmark (see record 2009-01378-000). Could Freud, and subsequent psychoanalytic theorists, have been as wrong about the psychology of men as they were about women? The organizing premise of this useful new collection of essays is that psychoanalytic gender theory, including the explosion of new gender theory over the past 40 years, has never adequately addressed the topics of masculinity and male heterosexuality. This volume makes a compelling case for that premise, and at the same time represents a promising start in addressing the deficiencies in existing theory. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)