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We hear them on talk radio airwaves bellowing about minorities. We
watch them organize anti-immigration demonstrations on the border.
We read their opinions regarding the demise of white male
privilege. And sometimes, tragically, we witness their aggression
through vigilante violence, as in the cases of Wade Michael Page,
James Eagan Holmes, Elliot Rodger, George Zimmerman, and many more.
They are America's angry white men, including "men's rights"
activists who think white men are the victims of discrimination, as
well as members of the "white wing" of the rightward fringes of the
American political spectrum. Why are they so angry? Sociologist
Michael Kimmel, one of the leading writers on men and masculinity
in the world today, has spent hundreds of hours in the company of
America's angry white men in pursuit of an answer. Raised to expect
unparalleled social and economic privilege, white men are suffering
today from what Kimmel calls "aggrieved entitlement": a sense that
those benefits that white men believed were their due have been
snatched away from them. In Angry White Men, Kimmel presents a
comprehensive diagnosis of their fears, anxieties, and rage.
A sociological examination into the emergence of male homosexuality
with a traditional masculine ethos Before gay liberation, gay men
were usually perceived as failed men-"inverts," men trapped in
women's bodies. The 1970s saw a radical shift in gay male culture,
as a male homosexuality emerged that embraced a more traditional
masculine ethos. The gay clone, a muscle-bound, sexually free,
hard-living Marlboro man, appeared in the gay enclaves of major
cities, changing forever the face of gay male culture. Gay Macho
presents the ethnography of this homosexual clone. Martin P.
Levine, a pioneer of the sociological study of homosexuality, was
among the first social scientists to map the emergence of a gay
community and this new style of gay masculinity. Levine was a
participant in as well as an observer of gay culture in the 1970s,
and this perspective allowed him to capture the true flavor of what
it was like to be a gay man before AIDS. Levine's clone was a
gender conformist, whose masculinity was demonstrated in patterns
of social interaction and especially in his sexuality. According to
Levine, his life centered around the "four D's: disco, drugs, dish,
and dick." Later chapters, based on Levine's pathbreaking empirical
research, explore some of the epidemiological and social
consequences of the AIDS epidemic on this particular substratum of
the gay community. Although Levine explicitly refuses to
pathologize gay men afflicted with HIV, his work develops a
scathing, feminist-inspired critique of masculinity, whether
practiced by gay or straight men.
According to masculinities theory, masculinity is not a biological
imperative but a social construction. Men engage in a constant
struggle with other men to prove their masculinity. Masculinities
and the Law develops a multidimensional approach. It sees
categories of identity--including various forms of raced, classed,
and sex-oriented masculinities--as operating simultaneously and
creating different effects in different contexts. By applying
multidimensional masculinities theory to law, this cutting-edge
collection both expands the field of masculinities and develops new
thinking about important issues in feminist and critical race
theories. The topics covered include how norms of masculinity
influence the behavior of policemen, firefighters, and
international soldiers on television and in the real world;
employment discrimination against masculine cocktail waitresses and
all transgendered employees; the legal treatment of fathers in the
U.S. and the ways unauthorized migrant fathers use the dangers of
border crossing to boost their masculine esteem; how Title IX fails
to curtail the masculinity of sport; the racist assumptions behind
the prison rape debate; the surprising roots of homophobia in
Jamaican dancehall music; and the contradictions of the legal
debate over women veiling in Turkey. Ultimately, the book argues
that multidimensional masculinities theory can change how law is
interpreted and applied.
Peter. Pecker. Wiener. Dick. Schlong. Penis. Whatever we choose to
call it, the penis is more than just a body part. This A-to-Z
encyclopedia explores the cultural meanings, interpretations, and
activities associated with the penis over the centuries and across
cultures. Scholars, activists, researchers and clinicians delve
into the penis in antiquity, in art, in religion, in politics, in
media, in music, and in the cultural imagination. They examine the
penis as a problem, a fetishized commodity, a weapon, an object of
play. Penile decor and fashions from piercings to codpieces to
koteka are treated with equal dignity. Explanation of common
medical terms and not-so-common subcultural practices add to the
broad scope of the book. Taken together, the Cultural Encyclopedia
of the Penis offers refreshing, thoughtful, and wide-ranging
insight into this malleable, meaningful body part."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Home is a scathing attack on the
domesticity of women in the early 20th century. Her central
argument, that "the economic independence and specialization of
women is essential to the improvement of marriage, motherhood,
domestic industry, and racial improvement" resonates in this work.
Throughout, she maintains that the liberation of women-and of
children and of men, for that matter-requires getting women out of
the house, both practically and ideologically. AltaMira Press is
proud to reprint this provocative work and introduce Charlotte
Perkins Gilman to a new generation of students and feminist
scholars.
In just one generation, age-old ideas about women have been swept
aside ...but what does that have to do with men? Authors Michael
Kaufman and Michael Kimmel, two of the world's leading male
advocates of gender equality, believe it has everything to do with
them,and that it's crucial to educate men about feminism in order
for them to fully understand just how important and positive these
changes have been for them.Kaufman and Kimmel address these issues
in The Guy's Guide to Feminism. Hip and accessible, it contains
nearly a hundred entries,from Autonomy" to Zero Tolerance",written
in varying tones (humorous, satirical, irreverent, thoughtful, and
serious) and in many forms ( top ten" lists, comics, interviews,
mini-stories, and more). Each topic celebrates the ongoing gains
that are improving the lives of women and girls,and what that
really means for men.Informal and fun yet substantive and
intelligent, The Guy's Guide to Feminism illustrates how
understanding and supporting feminism can help men live richer,
fuller, and happier lives.
For more than three decades, the women's movement and its scholars
have exhaustively studied women's complex history, roles, and
struggles. In Manhood in America: A Cultural History, Fourth
Edition, author Michael Kimmel argues that it is time for men to
rediscover their own evolution. Drawing on a myriad of sources, he
demonstrates that American men have been eternally frustrated by
their efforts to keep up with constantly changing standards. Kimmel
contends that men must follow the lead of the women's movement; it
is only by mining their past for its best qualities and worst
excesses that men will free themselves from the constraints of the
masculine ideal.
When Charlotte Perkins Gilman's first nonfiction book, Women and
Economics, was published exactly a century ago, in 1898, she was
immediately hailed as the leading intellectual in the women's
movement. Her ideas were widely circulated and discussed; she was
in great demand on the lecture circuit, and her intellectual circle
included some of the most prominent thinkers of the age. Yet by the
mid-1960s she was nearly forgotten, and Women and Economics was
long out of print. Revived here with new introduction, Gilman's
pivotal work remains a benchmark feminist text that anticipates
many of the issues and thinkers of 1960s and resonates deeply with
today's continuing debate about gender difference and inequality.
Gilman's ideas represent an integration of socialist thought and
Darwinian theory and provide a welcome disruption of the nearly
all-male canon of American economic and social thought. She
stresses the connection between work and home and between public
and private life; anticipates the 1960s debate about wages for
housework; calls for extensive childcare facilities and parental
leave policies; and argues for new housing arrangements with
communal kitchens and hired cooks. She contends that women's entry
into the public arena and the reforms of the family would be a
win-win situation for both women and men as the public sphere would
no longer be deprived of women's particular abilities, and men
would be able to enlarge the possibilities to experience and
express the emotional sustenance of family life. The thorough and
stimulating introduction by Michael Kimmel and Amy Aronson provides
substantial information about Gilman's life, personality, and
background. It frames her impact on feminism since the Sixties and
establishes her crucial role in the emergence of feminist and
social thought. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived
program, which commemorates University of California Press's
mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them
voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893,
Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship
accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title
was originally published in 1998.
By the time Matthias was in seventh grade, he felt he'd better
belong to some group, lest he be alone and vulnerable. The punks
and anarchists were identifiable by their tattoos and hairstyles
and music. But it was the skinheads who captured his imagination.
They had great parties, and everyone seemed afraid of them. "They
really represented what it meant to be a strong man," he said. What
draws young men into violent extremist groups? What are the
ideologies that inspire them to join? And what are the emotional
bonds forged that make it difficult to leave, even when they want
to? Having conducted in-depth interviews with ex-white nationalists
and neo-Nazis in the United States, as well as ex-skinheads and
ex-neo-Nazis in Germany and Sweden, renowned sociologist Michael
Kimmel demonstrates the pernicious effects that constructions of
masculinity have on these young recruits. Kimmel unveils how white
extremist groups wield masculinity to recruit and retain
members-and to prevent them from exiting the movement. Young men in
these groups often feel a sense of righteous indignation, seeing
themselves as victims, their birthright upended in a world
dominated by political correctness. Offering the promise of being
able to "take back their manhood," these groups leverage
stereotypes of masculinity to manipulate despair into white
supremacist and neo-Nazi hatred. Kimmel combines individual stories
with a multiangled analysis of the structural, political, and
economic forces that marginalize these men to shed light on their
feelings, yet make no excuses for their actions. Healing from Hate
reminds us of some men's efforts to exit the movements and
reintegrate themselves back into society and is a call to action to
those who make it out to help those who are still trapped.
There are amazing dangers and remarkable discoveries all around us
each and every day and in gaming that is no exception. For the
first time ever Dangers & Discoveries: The Hazards and
Revelations Sourcebook for The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game collect
the best selling PDF line, Two Dozen Danders and Two Dozen
Discoveries into one PDF. This sourcebook contains: 24 new haunts,
building on the new type of hazard introduced in the Pathfinder
Game Mastery Guide including Arcane Rift, Butcher's Hill, Purple
Pig Tavern and Thirsting Gorge. 24 new poisons, including new
magical toxins and deadly natural venoms for fantasy campaigns
building on the new type of poisons introduced in the Pathfinder
Core Rulebook including Anthrax, Curare, Maggot Wine and Sin Eater.
24 new death-dealing traps for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, all
intended to kill adventurers in the most interesting and
spectacular ways possible. 24 new disease including Black Lung,
Ebola, Ill-Thought and Stumble Fever 24 all new curses including
Candle maker 's Curse, Fleshslide Curse, Unforked Tongue Curse and
Wendigo 's Hunger 24 new plants including Alsone Milk, Feywort,
Lysean and Sea Moss 24 new scars including Amazonian Sacrifice,
Chaos' Mile, The Monkey's Fist and Sun Brand. 24new drugs including
Berserker' Blood, Elf-Fire, Ghost Water and Spellsoak Powder. 24
new insanities including Death Friend, Fey Worry, Night Haunt and
Refusal of Mortality 24 new spells including Barbering, Clear Camp,
Polymorphic Playmate and Timesense.
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.
In the late 1960s, two sociologists, John Gagnon and William Simon,
developed the concept of sexual scripts as part of a larger project
of treating sexuality like any other social phenomenon. In the end,
their vision of social construction turned Kinsey on his head, and
their model became the dominant paradigm of social science inquiry
into human sexuality, and spurred the development of an entire
field of Sexuality Studies. Sexual activity, they argued, was like
other social processes, yet one of increasing importance in the
construction of the self. Michael Kimmel has gathered together
essays from three generations of scholars influenced by this
perspective on sexuality. These include many of the foremost social
scientists writing and researching sexuality today. The book begins
with Kimmel's reflections on the unusual careers of Gagnon and
Simon, examines the construction of both sexual identity and sexual
behaviors in a variety of settings, and ends with the two of them
speaking in their own provocative voices about their perspective in
interviews conducted originally for a German journal in 1998.
By turns touching, funny, poignant, and painful, BOYHOOD chronicles
the road to manhood through the personal narratives and poems of
accomplished writers from around the world. "Though some of these
more than 40 personal accounts convey the exquisite angst of the
men's movement, the broad range of experiences should strike many
chords".--PUBLISHERS WEEKLY.
In the late 1960s, two sociologists, John Gagnon and William Simon,
developed the concept of sexual scripts as part of a larger project
of treating sexuality like any other social phenomenon. In the end,
their vision of social construction turned Kinsey on his head, and
their model became the dominant paradigm of social science inquiry
into human sexuality, and spurred the development of an entire
field of Sexuality Studies. Sexual activity, they argued, was like
other social processes, yet one of increasing importance in the
construction of the self. Michael Kimmel has gathered together
essays from three generations of scholars influenced by this
perspective on sexuality. These include many of the foremost social
scientists writing and researching sexuality today. The book begins
with Kimmel's reflections on the unusual careers of Gagnon and
Simon, examines the construction of both sexual identity and sexual
behaviors in a variety of settings, and ends with the two of them
speaking in their own provocative voices about their perspective in
interviews conducted originally for a German journal in 1998.
When Charlotte Perkins Gilman's first nonfiction book, Women and
Economics, was published exactly a century ago, in 1898, she was
immediately hailed as the leading intellectual in the women's
movement. Her ideas were widely circulated and discussed; she was
in great demand on the lecture circuit, and her intellectual circle
included some of the most prominent thinkers of the age. Yet by the
mid-1960s she was nearly forgotten, and Women and Economics was
long out of print. Revived here with new introduction, Gilman's
pivotal work remains a benchmark feminist text that anticipates
many of the issues and thinkers of 1960s and resonates deeply with
today's continuing debate about gender difference and inequality.
Gilman's ideas represent an integration of socialist thought and
Darwinian theory and provide a welcome disruption of the nearly
all-male canon of American economic and social thought. She
stresses the connection between work and home and between public
and private life; anticipates the 1960s debate about wages for
housework; calls for extensive childcare facilities and parental
leave policies; and argues for new housing arrangements with
communal kitchens and hired cooks. She contends that women's entry
into the public arena and the reforms of the family would be a
win-win situation for both women and men as the public sphere would
no longer be deprived of women's particular abilities, and men
would be able to enlarge the possibilities to experience and
express the emotional sustenance of family life. The thorough and
stimulating introduction by Michael Kimmel and Amy Aronson provides
substantial information about Gilman's life, personality, and
background. It frames her impact on feminism since the Sixties and
establishes her crucial role in the emergence of feminist and
social thought. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived
program, which commemorates University of California Press's
mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them
voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893,
Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship
accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title
was originally published in 1998.
According to masculinities theory, masculinity is not a biological
imperative but a social construction. Men engage in a constant
struggle with other men to prove their masculinity. Masculinities
and the Law develops a multidimensional approach. It sees
categories of identity--including various forms of raced, classed,
and sex-oriented masculinities--as operating simultaneously and
creating different effects in different contexts. By applying
multidimensional masculinities theory to law, this cutting-edge
collection both expands the field of masculinities and develops new
thinking about important issues in feminist and critical race
theories. The topics covered include how norms of masculinity
influence the behavior of policemen, firefighters, and
international soldiers on television and in the real world;
employment discrimination against masculine cocktail waitresses and
all transgendered employees; the legal treatment of fathers in the
U.S. and the ways unauthorized migrant fathers use the dangers of
border crossing to boost their masculine esteem; how Title IX fails
to curtail the masculinity of sport; the racist assumptions behind
the prison rape debate; the surprising roots of homophobia in
Jamaican dancehall music; and the contradictions of the legal
debate over women veiling in Turkey. Ultimately, the book argues
that multidimensional masculinities theory can change how law is
interpreted and applied.
In our media-saturated culture, momentous events occur quickly, as
news and images are broadcast around the country and the world. We
are often riveted by the news and our everyday reality is suddenly
changed. Yet, almost as quickly, that critical event is replaced by
a new story. The old event fades from memory, and we move on to the
next thing before understanding why it commanded our attention and
how our world was changed. On April 16, 2007, such an event
occurred on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Virginia. That
day a student killed 32 of his classmates and professors and then
turned the gun on himself. The media focused their power and our
attention on the campus, the students and faculty of Virginia Tech,
and the gunman and his victims. But we have yet to understand fully
what happened in Blacksburg. There is a Gunman on Campus brings our
thoughts back to the shocking campus shootings and the public
reactions to the event, shining needed light on what occurred at
the university, how American society reacted, and how it all fits
into contemporary culture. The contributors to this insightful and
compelling volume preserve and deepen our memory of April 16th.
Many of the authors are distinguished men and women of letters, and
some were on the Virginia Tech campus the day when the shots rang
out. From the psychology of the shooter to the role of media in
covering the event to parallels to other American tragedies such as
Columbine, the chapters constitute an incisive portrait of early
21st century America.
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Human Work (Hardcover)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman; Foreword by Michael Kimmel, Mary M. Moynihan
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R4,084
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Human Work represents the first ground breaking analysis on the
equal importance of work in the lives of men and women. Noted
feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman maintains the notion that it was
'sexuo-economic oppression of women' and not women's biology that
kept women from achieving in all areas of work. Accusing men of
appropriating certain work as 'men's work' and masking the process
as a biological locus rather than an exercise in power relations,
Gilman asserts that men created an economic dependence that has
prevented women from success in the workplace. Introduced by noted
scholars Michael Kimmel and Mary Moynihan, Human Work is necessary
reading for anyone interested in power and gender structures in the
workplace.
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Human Work (Paperback)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman; Foreword by Michael Kimmel, Mary M. Moynihan
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R1,736
Discovery Miles 17 360
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Human Work represents the first ground breaking analysis on the
equal importance of work in the lives of men and women. Noted
feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman maintains the notion that it was
"sexuo-economic oppression of women" and not women's biology that
kept women from achieving in all areas of work. Accusing men of
appropriating certain work as "men's work" and masking the process
as a biological locus rather than an exercise in power relations,
Gilman asserts that men created an economic dependence that has
prevented women from success in the workplace. Introduced by noted
scholars Michael Kimmel and Mary Moynihan, Human Work is necessary
reading for anyone interested in power and gender structures in the
workplace.
In The Unemployed Man and His Family, noted sociologist and
feminist Mirra Komarovsky poses the question: what happens to the
authority of the male head of the family when he fails as a
provider? Between 1935 and 1936, Komarovsky interviewed 59 families
in 1935-36 in which the male had been unemployed for at least a
year. Interestingly, in many cases, the husband's struggle in the
economic sphere did not offset the solidity and happiness of the
marital relationship. But unemployment seems to have affected the
men's sense of their own position as head of household and
providers. For one thing, it undermined their sense of themselves
as breadwinners. Most found it unbearably humiliating to accept
relief. Perhaps her most important finding-which still resonates
today-was that those men who thought of themselves exclusively as
providers suffered far more than those who had developed
alternative identities as father and husband.
In Women in College, feminist and sociologist Mirra Komarovsky
interviewed women who entered Barnard College in the fall of 1979,
finding that the demands of college life facilitated and
occasionally forced many of these women to change their
self-concept. Many felt trapped between new ideals of femininity -
including action, vigor, rational competence, and effectiveness -
and traditional notions of femininity, centered around emotional
nurturance, passivity and kindness. This study forms the basis of
her critique of the struggle that arose from the differences in
what were seen as the mutually exclusive roles of homemaker and
those who pursued work outside the home.
In The Unemployed Man and His Family, noted sociologist and
feminist Mirra Komarovsky poses the question: what happens to the
authority of the male head of the family when he fails as a
provider? Between 1935 and 1936, Komarovsky interviewed 59 families
in 1935-36 in which the male had been unemployed for at least a
year. Interestingly, in many cases, the husband's struggle in the
economic sphere did not offset the solidity and happiness of the
marital relationship. But unemployment seems to have affected the
men's sense of their own position as head of household and
providers. For one thing, it undermined their sense of themselves
as breadwinners. Most found it unbearably humiliating to accept
relief. Perhaps her most important finding_which still resonates
today_was that those men who thought of themselves exclusively as
providers suffered far more than those who had developed
alternative identities as father and husband.
In Dilemmas of Masculinity, noted sociologist Mirra Komarovsky
turns her attention to the consequences of feminism among women on
the lives of men. As she'd documented in Women in the Modern World,
and would again in Women in College, women's lives had changed
enormously in the thirty-plus years Komarovsky taught at Barnard
College. Women now are able to own their intelligence without
apology, and most of the women had career aspirations that were
equal to the men across the street at Columbia. In fieldwork
conducted with Columbia College seniors in 1969-1970, she
continually found that women's newly claimed freedoms, however, sat
uneasily on men who had been raised in traditional homes. On the
one hand, they respected women's intellectual achievements and even
welcomed women's career aspirations. The campus ethos 'demanded
that men pay at least lip service to liberal attitudes towards
working wives,' Komarovsky wrote in an article based on the
research. On the other hand, they didn't want to sacrifice any of
the privileges they had been taught to expect - that their wives
would do virtually all the child care and housework. As a result,
the men were utterly unprepared for the new world of gender
equality that women were beginning to demand.
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