Emanuel Copilaș
Abstract: Ovidiu Anemțoaicei proposes in this book a very complex, coherent and provocative intellectual project. The central premise from which this endeavor starts is that within gender studies, the valorization of man’s corporal experience appears less or not at all in comparison to the valorization of women’s corporal experience. Thus, hegemonic masculinity, and partially also minoritary masculinities (gay, queer etc.) is mostly construed as gender, at the discursive, social level, and less as a body, as immanent bodily experience that is not accessible to any exterior ethical positioning. But the sex-gender distinction (biological/social), a central one in feminist theories, is one that mostly hides the repressed corporality of social becoming and thus frustrates men, making them less capable to overcome Western hegemonic masculinity (white, heterosexual, bourgeois), and less capable to overcome the representational discourse so much embedded in the European philosophy, a discourse that articulates, strictly within language, several hierarchical dichotomies that are factually inexistent (mind-body, reason-emotion, biology-culture).