Roles, Roots and Rifts: A Rejoinder to Mahalik, Silverstein and Hammond

It was a very pleasant surprise to be invited to contribute a paper to the Psychology of Men and Masculinity, outlining a Discursive Psychological (DP) approach to the study of men. Likewise, we are also grateful for the opportunity to engage in an extended discussion with a few of our contemporaries from ‘across the Pond’. Goodness knows how hard it was for Ron Levant to come up with a short-list of academics who might be, in some way at least, receptive to the arguments we were advancing, but we would like to thank James Mahalik, Louise Silverstein and Wizdom Hammond for their careful and sympathetic considerations of our offering.