Lynne Segal asks a difficult question: what actually changes when gender roles begin to shift, and what stubbornly refuses to?

Drawing on psychoanalysis, sociology, politics and cultural criticism, she examines fatherhood, domestic labour, sexuality, homophobia, violence and men's emotional lives with clarity, refusing both easy optimism and reactionary nostalgia.

Segal doesn't treat masculinity as either biologically fixed or purely ideological. Instead, she follows its contradictions through everyday life: why men often endorse equality while continuing to benefit from inequality; why emotional openness remains difficult; why institutions change more slowly than political rhetoric. More than three decades after publication, many of the tensions she identifies remain contemporary.

For readers interested in feminist theory beyond slogans, Slow Motion sits alongside the work of Nancy Chodorow, bell hooks, Raewyn Connell and Juliet Mitchell as one of the defining studies of masculinity written from a feminist perspective.

First edition, first printing. Published by Virago Press in 1990. Paperback. Good condition with general shelf wear, rubbing and creasing to the covers, most noticeably along the lower front corner. Binding remains solid and the pages are clean throughout.