The politics of vulnerable masculinity in couple therapy.
Couple therapy and related literature has problematized men's emotional inexpressiveness as constraining for men and as contributing to men's privileged and dominating position vis‐à‐vis women. Fostering men's emotionality in and outside of therapy has been proposed as a way to improve men's well‐be...
| Published in: | Journal of Marital & Family Therapy Vol. 48; no. 2; pp. 427 - 447 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Apr2022
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