Real Men on Top
How Patriarchy Shapes Our Reality
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 18 August 2026
- ISBN 9780190052560
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages192 pages
- Size 217x147x17 mm
- Weight 340 g
- Language English 700
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Short description:
Real Men on Top reveals that patriarchy isn't just a system where men dominate women—it's a deeper force that teaches us how to see reality. Through enduring myths of Man, Woman, Animal, and Child, patriarchy dictates who we are and makes inequality feel like common sense. With clarity and heart, Robin Dembroff shows how these myths shape both our inner lives and material conditions—and how they trap even those they seem to elevate.
MoreLong description:
A revelatory new lens on patriarchy-as a force that governs how we see the world, live in our bodies, and imagine our futures
In Real Men on Top, Robin Dembroff shows us that we don't just live in a patriarchal world. We live in a world that patriarchy taught us to see. Patriarchy is not simply a system where men dominate women, Dembroff argues. It is a deeper reality-shaping force that legitimizes economic exploitation, political injustice, and social cruelty by dividing all of us into the rigid categories of Man, Woman, Animal, and Child.
These categories are presented as natural truths, but Dembroff reveals them as man-made myths—ones that construct a reality in which being characterized as Woman, Animal, or Child marks moral degradation. By no coincidence, feminization, dehumanization, and infantilization are the very degradations used to make a man 'less of a man'.
But this book is more than critique; it's also a guide to transformation—especially for those grappling with what it means to be a man under patriarchy. Patriarchy's myths celebrate the identity Man, these myths are no friend to most men. Promising strength and superiority, they instead fuel isolation, emotional repression, and relentless pressure to prove oneself—while propping up systems that enrich the powerful few. Rather than deliver freedom and prosperity, these myths entrap and impoverish. Real Men on Top invites readers to see through them—and, in so doing, to find new possibilities for living, relating, and becoming human.
Sharp, daring, and deeply felt, Real Men on Top is a book for anyone who senses that something is deeply wrong with the way we live—and wants to understand how we got here, and where we might begin the work of remaking reality.
Real Men On Top deftly dissects and discards patriarchy's logic of biological supremacy, then reveals what's left-a shadow play propelled by the flimsiest of narratives. By demonstrating clearly how even the men who purportedly benefit from these stories are also exploited, this elegant treatise offers us all a salvational alternative. Robin Dembroff releases our chains, guides us gently out of the cave, and helps us begin to adjust to the shimmering reality outside.
Table of Contents:
Preface: Seeing the Water
Part 1: Part 1: The Planetary Men's Association
Part 2: The Reality of Patriarchy
Part 3: Erecting Real Men
Postscript: The Man in "Me"
