Misframing Men The Politics of Contemporary Masculinities

Name: Misframing Men The Politics of Contemporary Masculinities
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ISBN: 9780813547633

ISBN-10: 0813547636

ISBN-13: 9780813547633

Edition: 2010

Authors: Michael Kimmel

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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…

Book details

List price: $41.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication date: 5/20/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Preface


Introduction: Misframing Men



Reframings



Has "A Man's World" Become "A Woman's Nation"?: Men's Responses to Women's Increased Equality in the Twenty-first Century



The Children's Hour: Masculine Redemption in Contemporary Film (with Amy Aronson)



Reconciliation, Appropriation, Inspiration, and Conversation: Four Strategies of Racial Healing among White Men



Reversals



Who Are the Real Male Bashers?



A War against Boys?



"Gender Symmetry" in Domestic Violence



Restorations



Profiling School Shooters and Shooters' Schools: The Cultural Contexts of Aggrieved Entitlement and Restorative Masculinity



Globalization and Its Mal(e)contents: Masculinity on the Extreme Right



Promise Keepers: Patriarchy's Second Coming as Masculine Renewal



Saving the Males at VMI and Citadel



Janey Got Her Gun: A VMI Postscript



Resistance



Who's Afraid of Men Doing Feminism?



Profeminist Men: The "Other" Men's Movement


Index