Anneke van Baalen, HIDDEN MASCULINITY, Max Weber's historical sociology of bureaucracy.
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Weber's own analysis that also 'non-men' can prove their individual 'charisma' or, when they
are threatened by patriarchal appropriation because of the instability of individual
'extraordinariness', form their own charismatic groups to keep their positions and the
corresponding privileges.
Since, like this book shows, the abolition of the contradictions between public and private,
between masculine and feminine, can in existing terms only be performed in a marginal way,
social relations which are not based on these contradictions can only be imagined again in a
feminist movement - an open, public network of groups fighting the monopolies of
masculinity.
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