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 cliches 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 feminisation 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.
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