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Michael S. Kimmel: The Politics of Manhood

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A much-needed, often startling debate on the personal and political dimensions of masculinity

The Politics of Manhood

Profeminist Men Respond to the Mythopoetic Men's Movement
(And the Mythopoetic Leaders Answer)

edited by Michael S. Kimmel

"...a watershed in the national conversation on masculinity that has emerged over the past few years....[T]his book repre
important document, but also an intervention that will likely change the nature of discourse about men's lives."
Ronald F. Levant, co-author of Masculinity Reconstructed

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paper: $27.95, Nov 95
EAN: 978-1-56639-366-9
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These essays by profeminist men critique the surface ideals and underlying messages promoted by the men's movement.
independent of feminism? What does the movement say about the appropriate models of masculinity?

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EAN: 978-1-43990-146-5
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While the movement may be more than a bunch of white middle-aged men in war-paint, chanting and grunting in the forest, the p
the surface ideals and the underlying messages promoted by the movement. Essays by several of the leaders of the mythopoetic
criticisms, opening a provocative dialogue among men about the politics of the contemporary men's movement, the "crisis" of mas

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Reviews
"Kimmel leads the field! First a documentary history of profeminist men, now a collection of their responses to the mythopoetic
it. Valuable reading for activist, scholar, and studentfor every man and woman in America."
Jean O'Barr, Director of Women's Studies, Duke University

"Can men learn to use male privilege with integrity, on behalf of gender justice? Perhapsif they are willing to challenge each ot
accountability with love. The often-startling debate documented in The Politics of Manhood offers a powerful model for such cru
attempts to caricature the mythopoets, disappear the pro-feminists, and dismiss progressive efforts to scrutinize masculinity al
insight into the complexity of men's workboth personal and politicalfor gender justice."
Kay Leigh Hagan, author of Fugitive Information: Essays from a Feminist Hothead and editor of Women Respond to the Men's

Contents
Preface
Publication Information
Introduction Michael S. Kimmel
Part I: Conceptual Critiques
1. Weekend Warriors: Robert Bly and the Politics of Masculine Retreat Michael S. Kimmel and Michael Kaufman
2. Mythopoetic Foundations and New Age Patriarchy Ken Clatterbaugh
3. Gazing into Men's Middles: Sam Keen's Fire in the Belly Don Sabo

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Part II: The Personal is Political: The Mythopoetic Men's Movement as a Social Movement
4. Men at Bay: The Men's Movement and Its Newest Bestsellers R.W. Connell
5. The Politics of the Mythopoetic Men's Movement Harry Brod
6. "Changing Men" and Feminist Politics in the United States Michael A. Messner

Part III: The Personal is Intellectual

7. Born to Run: Nineteenth Century Fantasies of Masculine Retreat and Recreation (or The Historical Rust on Iron John) Michael

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