Power through knowledge: Ignorance and the 'real man'

Feminism and Psychology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 35-54

  Toerien, Merran ^a   Durrheim, Kevin ^b  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Discourse; Identity; Knowledge; Masculinities; Rhetoric

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035625736     PISSN: 09593535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959353501011001003     Document Type: Article

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