"What is a woman?" asked Simone de Beauvoir in her seminal 1949 text The Second Sex. "The fact that I ask it is in itself significant. A man would never set out to write a book on the peculiar situation of the human male."
But last month, some 66 years after the publication of that landmark piece of feminist theory, a festival at the Southbank Centre in London set out to do just that - to delve into the question of what it means to be a man, and investigate, as Southbank's Artistic Director Jude Kelly put it, "what conflicts the modern man faces in a world where everything is changing".
BAM speaker Hardeep Singh Kohl (Photo: Belinda Lawley)
