ABSTRACT
THE COLLECTIVE DISCUSSION During recent months the issues of male violence have become current within the national media. Feminists have become more vocal and visible in their demands that male violence be stopped. This has been crystallized in the Women Against Violence Against Women demonstrations and in the media response to the atrocities committed by the Yorkshire Ripper. We in Achilles Heel unreservedly support the women’s movement’s activities against male violence. But for us to be able to take our place as men in the struggle against male violence we need to be able to understand the roots of it. What has emerged for us out of our discussions in the collective during the preparation of this issue is an awareness that the violence within ourselves is a result of the process of learning to be men. We hope that these articles will enable us, both individually and collectively, to be involved in that struggle.
