The Male Paradox by John Munder Ross New York:  Simon & Schuster, 1992,  350 pp., $23.00

“What does a woman want?” is no longer the psychoanalytic enigma it once was. Studies by psychoanalysts and feminist academics, particularly over the past two decades, have substantially demystified this issue. Now there is increasing interest in what men want; the phallocentric defensive posture of male superiority is no longer sustainable. There have been a number of interesting explorations of the psychology of men in recent years (e.g., Fogel, Lane, & Liebert, 1986; Gaylin, 1992; Gilmore, 1990). A cult movement has evolved out of the writings of the poet Robert Bly (1990) and his Jungian-influenced declarations of the need for male bonding and mentoring and his call for the revitalization of primitive aspects of masculinity. That some men find a need to