Preface
Introduction: Misframing Men Part One: Reframings
Chapter 1. Has “A Man’s World” Become “A Woman’s Nation”? Men’s
Responses to Women’s Increased Equality in the Twenty-first Century
Chapter 2. The Children’s Hour: Masculine Redemption in Contemporary
Film (with Amy Aronson)
Chapter 3. Reconciliation, Inspiration, Appropriation, and
Conversation: Four Strategies of Racial Healing among White Men Part Two: Reversals
Chapter 4. Who Are the Real Male Bashers?
Chapter 5. What About the Boys?
Chapter 6. “Gender Symmetry” in Domestic Violence Part Three: Restorations
Chapter 7. Profiling School Shooters and Shooters’ Schools: The
Cultural Contexts of Aggrieved Entitlement and Restorative Masculinity
Chapter 8. Globalization and Its Mal(e)contents: Masculinity on the
Extreme Right
Chapter 9. Promise Keepers: Patriarchy’s Second Coming as Masculine
Renewal
Chapter 10. Saving the Males at VMI and Citadel
Chapter 11. Janey Got Her Gun: A VMI Postscript Part Four: Resistance
Chapter 12. Who’s Afraid of Men Doing Feminism?
Chapter 13. Profeminist Men: The “Other” Men’s Movement
Subtitle: The
Politics of Contemporary Masculinities Author: Michael
Kimmel Subject:Sociology,Gender
Studies Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-4763-3 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4762-6 Pages:
256 pages Publication Date: June 2010
Praise:
“Kimmel offers an insightful, balanced view
of the problems behind ‘me Tarzan, you Jane’.”-Publishers Weekly Description:
This past decade has witnessed an
extraordinary transformation in men’s lives. For years, wave after wave
of the women’s movement, a movement that reshaped every aspect of
American life, produced nary a ripple among men. But suddenly men are
in the spotlight.
Yet, the public discussions often seem strained, silly, and sometimes
flat-out wrong. The spotlight itself seems to obscure as much as it
illuminates. Old tired clichés about men’s resistance to
romantic commitment or reluctance to be led to the marriage altar seem
perennially recyclable in advice books and on TV talk shows, but these
days the laughter feels more forced, the defensiveness more pronounced.
Pop biologists avoid careful confrontation with serious scientific
research in their quest to find anatomical or evolutionary bases for
promiscuity or porn addiction, hoping that by fiat, one can pronounce
that “boys will be boys” and render it more than a flaccid tautology.
And political pundits wring their hands about the feminization of
American manhood, as if gender equality has neutered these formerly
proud studs. Misframing Men,
a collection of Michael Kimmel’s commentaries on contemporary debates
about masculinity, argues that the media have largely misframed this
debate.
Kimmel, among the world’s best-known scholars in gender studies,
discusses political moments such as the Virginia Military Institute and
Citadel cases that reached the Supreme Court (he participated as expert
witness for the Justice Department) along with Promise Keepers rallies,
mythopoetic gatherings, and white supremacists. He takes on
antifeminists as the real male bashers, questions the unsubstantiated
assertions that men suffer from domestic violence to the same degree as
women, and examines the claims made by those who want to rescue boys
from the “misandrous” reforms initiated by feminism.
In writings both solidly grounded and forcefully argued, Kimmel pushes
the boundaries of today’s modern conversation about men and masculinity.
About the Author:
Michael
Kimmel is a professor of sociology at SUNY, Stony Brook. A
highly visible advocate for gender equality, he is the author of the
celebrated Guyland: The Perilous
World Where Boys Become Men and Manhood in America, the definitive
history of American masculinity, among other books, and is the founding
editor of Men and Masculinities.
He was among the founders of the National Organization for Men Against
Sexism, now celebrating its thirty-fifth anniversary. Receive
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