Thomas Van Nortwick

Quotes

• “our contemporary ideas about manliness, reflected in action movies and westerns, generally prohibit so-called real men f...”
• “As the Greeks saw it, to be a man was to be defined by your ability to exert power in a world articulated through transc...”
• “women had to be controlled and kept from going wild because of their inherent susceptibility to lust; thus men had to ex...”
• “because women were also believed to be closer to the raw forces of nature than were males, controlling their power was, ...”
• “The need to control others as a prerequisite for male agency presupposed self-control. That imperative, in turn, include...”