by Robert Bly · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401374470
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«Iron John» is Robert Bly's essay on masculinity, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (259 pages, in Spanish).
Drawing on the fairy tale «Juan de Hierro», Robert Bly reflects on masculine identity and gender roles in contemporary society. The author proposes a masculinity far from machismo, one that allows men to reconnect with their instinctive and wild side, integrating reason and emotion.
Spanish-language edition from 1992 with the subtitle «La primera respuesta no machista al feminismo»; the work is also known as «Juan de Hierro».
For readers interested in philosophy, gender studies, and the debate on masculinity in today's society.
Robert Elwood Bly was an American poet, essayist, activist and leader of the mythopoetic men's movement. His best-known prose book is Iron John: A Book About Men (1990), which spent 62 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list, and is a key text of the mythopoetic men's movement. He won the 1968 National Book Award for Poetry for his book The Light Around the Body.
