VIC SEIDLER is Professor of Social Theoryin the Department of Sociology,Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. He is author of Transforming Masculinities: Men, Cultures, Bodies, Power,Sex and Love (2005)Shadows of the Shoah: Jewish Identity and Belonging (2000), Man Enough: Embodying Masculinites (1997) and Recovering the Self: Morality and Social Theory (1995). He has also published widely on social theory and philosophy, Marxism and critical theory, moral theory, masculinity and sexual politics in international journals.