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Discuss the handling of what Claire Monk terms "the problem of male disempowerment" in The Full Monty (1997) and Trainspotting(1996) Claire Monk states that "to an almost unprecedented extent 1990s British Cinema seemed preoccupied with men and masculinity in crisis."1 . The decline throughout the 1980s and the Thatcher government of traditionally male dominated professions such as semi skilled labour and middle management led to an increase in male unemployment while Female employment, partly due to their willingness to tolerate work which was "part-time, insecure and ill-paid"2 , was on the increase. This led to a climate in which the traditional male role as head of the family, both economically and as disciplinarian was under threat. The reaction to this changing of gender roles was not a progressive one but what Claire Monk describes as "post-feminist male panic"3 and a resurgence of misogyny as men attempted to justify their place in...

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