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.