ALICE FERREBE is a Lecturer in English and Creative Technologies at Liverpool John Moores University, UK.

• Acknowledgements PART 1: INTRODUCTION Reading: Resisting Resistance Defining Masculinity (/-ies?) The Masculine Self PART 2: THE CONSOLATIONS OF CONFORMITY An Empirical Example (Middle-) Classless Aspirations Addressivity, Anxiety and Influence Good, Clean, Rational Fun 'Part-of-a-spending-spree and good-fun-for-all-concerned The Male Text? PART 3: THE CONTRADICTIONS OF PHILOSOPHY Outside the Hero A Mssculine Philosophy? Choosing to be Born The Essentialist Existentialist The Masculine Gaze PART 4: NON-CONFORMITY AND THE SIXTIES It Came From Inner Space In Sickness, Not in Health Writing the Male Body A Teenage Ball A Rational Rebellion PART 5: CREDIT FOR CONFESSION The Anti-Masculine Text The Women's Decades? Confessional Increments Hitting and Telling Ladlit The Daddy of Ladlit PART 6: CONCLUSIONS - READING TO BELIE THE BINARY Endnotes Bibliography Index