ABSTRACT
The women's movement in the 1960s and 1970s demanded equality in access to education, jobs, pay, representation and health, with recognition for the value of childcare, and an end to men's physical and emotional abuse in their superior physical strength and monetary power over women. In scrutinising sexual inequalities, in examining the skewed valorisation of men's behaviours, a great deal of enquiry concentrated on man as dysfunctional. The late 1970s and 1980s were marked by a consequent formation of a men's movement, as men addressed the charges that they suppressed meaningful feeling, lacked emotional resources, feared intimacy and left little room for tenderness. This fed the development of masculinity studies, which are now a vigorous field of study in the humanities. It is now time to re-read Trollope's novels to reassess how he constructs his men, for he can be equally unconventional in his presentation of the cultural stereotype of the orthodox male psyche.
