ABSTRACT
Intense interest in the psychology of the father shows that we have reached an extremely interesting point in the evolution of our culture’s consciousness concerning men. Perhaps for the first time, a category called ‘men’ can be said to exist, bringing with it a burgeoning ‘men’s movement’. In the past, it has been men who defined all the other categories that there might be; men themselves were simply part of the intellectual furniture. Now, men are looked at in the ways in which they, historically, have looked at everything else. Men are the object of scrutiny, the object of analysis, the object of dissection on many levels. It is revealing that, hitherto, the only field in which men have been looked at like this has been criminology.
