Posts tagged michael kimmel
Posts tagged michael kimmel
If male domination is natural, based on biological imperatives, why, asks sociologist Cynthia Fuchs Epstein, must it be coercive, held in place by laws, traditions, customs, and the constant threat of violence for any woman who dares step out of line?
http://www.feminist.com/resources/artspeech/mensvoices16.html
Then my mother asked, “Zachary, what’s the opposite of boy?”
My whole body tensed. Here it comes, I thought, Mars and Venus, the “opposite” sex, the whole gender binary.
Zachary looked up at his grandmother and said, “Man.”
Michael Kimmel is a renowned American sociologist whose specialty is pro-feminism. A professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, he is the editor of Men and Masculinities, a spokesperson of NOMAS (The National Organization For Men Against Sexism), and the author, most recently, of Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men
This is a great little article. I’ve run across Michael Kimmel a few times now, I have one of his books and look forward to reading it. I don’t want to flood my followers with a bunch of articles, but I can’t help but share when I find uplifting stuff.
