R. W. Connell's "Politics of Changing Men" explores the history and politics of the various discourses surrounding representations of masculinity.

Plus

• An extract from David Tacey's Remaking Men: Jungian Thought and the Post-Patriarchal Psyche.
  

• Marilyn Lake reviews states of fantasy by Jacqueline Rose.

• Worlding Women: A Feminist International Politics by Jan Jindy Pettman is reviewed by Ann Curthoys.

• An extract from Queer Theory by Annamarie Jagose.

• Martin Breen's Woof, Woof: The real bite in Reservoir Dogs explores Quentin Tarantino's use of pop music in the film Reservoir Dogs.

• In "Recovering Memory " John Frow examines false memory syndrome and childhood sexual abuse.

• In Cultural Studies, Feminist Values: Strange Bedfellows or Sisters in Crime? Terry Threadgold suggests that women who murder their husbands raise all of the questions that feminist cultural studies needs to be thinking about.

• Pierre Ryckmans's Are Books Useless? is an extract from the 1996 Boyer lectures.