<span><span><span>Female novelists have always invested as much narrative energy in constructing their male characters as in envisioning their female. The collected articles in </span><span style="font-style:italic;">Women Constructing Men</span><span> demonstrate that the topic of female-authored masculinities not only allows scholars to re-discover almost every novel written by a woman, but also triggers reflections on a host of theoretical questions of gender and genre.</span></span></span>