Jack Donovan: No Man’s Land
Jack Donovan:
The following three-chapter arc was originally intended to be part of a book project called The Way of Men. The Way of Men is not about feminism, but most popular writing about masculinity is written by feminists, or men who have accepted a handful of feminist assumptions. My intent here was to locate my own understanding of masculinity within the context of a larger discussion about men that has been happening for the past several decades. I wanted to engage the arguments of others in a comprehensive way and extract common themes. I wanted to “show my work.”
Together, these chapters form a short book about the way that masculinity has been maligned, re-imagined and mis-represented by others.
I have decided to make this book No Man’s Land available for free online, because I hope that this material will be useful to other men who are writing about masculinity, feminism, the men’s movement and conflicts between masculinity and civilization. While I have a stack of books on masculinity that come from the establishment — from university presses and from writers approved by the mainstream media — the most interesting writing about masculinity is happening online. You can cite a book, but you can’t quite link to it — not exactly, anyway.
For those inclined to read No Man’s Land as a book, I have made it available in Kindle format, and as a downloadable .pdf file, but it will also remain online as a series of pages on my web site.
I would like to thank my Vulcan friend Trevor Blake for his help editing these chapters.
One last thing…
I’m not a tenured academic. I drive a truck for a living. Sorting through this material takes a lot of work. If you find this valuable and want to support my work — toss me a few bucks for beer, guns and books. There’s a “donate” button on my web site.
