| Description |
xiv, 359 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Thinking gender |
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Thinking gender.
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| Contents |
Foreword / Sandra Bartky -- Introduction / Tom Digby -- 1. My Father the Feminist / Susan Bordo -- 2. How Feminism Made a Man Out of Me: The Proper Subject of Feminism and the Problem of Men / Patrick D. Hopkins -- 3. Who's Afraid of Men Doing Feminism? / Michael S. Kimmel -- 4. On Your Knees: Carnal Knowledge, Masculine Dissolution, Doing Feminism / Brian Pronger -- 5. Profeminist Men and Their Friends / Richard Schmitt -- 6. Tracing a Ghostly Memory in My Throat: Reflections on Ftm Feminist Voice and Agency / C. Jacob Hale -- 7. Teaching Women Philosophy (as a Feminist Man) / Thomas E. Wartenberg -- 8. A Black Man's Place in Black Feminist Criticism / Michael Awkward -- 9. Can Men Be Subjects of Feminist Thought? / Sandra Harding -- 10. To Be a Man, or Not to Be a Man - That Is the Feminist Question / Harry Brod -- 11. Male Feminism as Oxymoron / David J. Kahane -- 12. Antiracist (Pro)Feminisms and Coalition Politics: "No Justice, No Peace" / Joy James |
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13. Feminism and the Future of Fathering / Judith Kegan Gardiner -- 14. A New Response to "Angry Black (Anti)Feminists": Reclaiming Feminist Forefathers, Becoming Womanist Sons / Gary Lemons -- 15. Is Feminism Good for Men and Are Men Good for Feminism? / James P. Sterba -- 16. Reading Like a (Transsexual) Man / Henry S. Rubin -- 17. Feminist Ambiguity in Heterosexual Lives: Reflections on Andrea Dworkin / Laurence Mordekhai Thomas -- 18. A Progressive Male Standpoint / Larry May |
| Summary |
"The relation between feminism and men is often presumed to be antagonistic. Men are expected to resist feminism; feminists are assumed to hate men. However, that oppositionality is thrown into question by the increasing numbers of men involved in feminist theory and practice. This collection of essays, most of them published for the first time, presents both enthusiastic and cautionary views of men doing feminism. The eighteen contributors to this book - women, men, blacks, whites, gays, straights, transsexuals - move the conversation about male feminism beyond simplistic notions of oppositionality between feminism and male identity. Many of the authors use personal narrative to show ways men's lives can shape approaches to doing feminism, and to convey the opportunities and challenges involved in integrating feminism into men's lives."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Men -- United States -- Attitudes.
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Men -- United States -- Psychology.
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Feminism -- United States.
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Sex role -- United States.
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| Author |
Digby, Tom, 1945-
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| LC no. |
97039468 |
| ISBN |
0415916259 cloth |
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0415916267 paperback |
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