International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy: Volume 17 Issue 1/2

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FEMINSIM AND MEN: TOWARD A RELATIONAL UNDERSTANDING OF PATRIARCHY AND COOPERATIVE SOCIAL CHANGE

Steven P. Schacht, Doris W. Ewing

Many academic men are sympathetic to issues of gender equity and supportive of feminist goals, but see feminism as basically irrelevant to their interests. Yet they may be engaged…

FROM CONSCIENCE AND COMMON SENSE TO “FEMINISM FOR MEN” PRO‐FEMINIST MEN'S RHETORICS OF SUPPORT FOR WOMEN'S EQUALITY

Michael S. Kimmel

Since the late eighteenth century, American men have supported women's equality. (see Kimmel and Mosmiller, 1992). Even before the first Woman's Rights Convention at Seneca Falls…

TO BE BLACK, MALE, AND “FEMINIST”‐‐MAKING WOMANIST SPACE FOR BLACK MEN

Gary L. Lemons

bell hooks says in “Reconstructing Black Masculinity” thatn[c]ollectively we can break the life threatening choke‐holdpatriarchal masculinity imposes on black men and create…

“GENDER POLITICS FOR MEN”

R.W. Connell

When I was about 10 or 11 years old I played in a school rugby football team for a short time. Rugby is a game where you clasp a pointed ball to your chest and try to run through…

“I AM NOT A RAPIST!”: WHY COLLEGE GUYS ARE CONFRONTING SEXUAL VIOLENCE

John Stoltenberg

What follows is an emotionally charged conversation among members of a Duke University student organization called Men Acting for Change (MAC), one of many new men's groups at…

PATRIARCHAL SEX

Robert Jensen

Four male undergraduates at Cornell University post on the internet the “Top 75 reasons why women (bitches) should not have freedom of speech.” Reason #20: “This is my dick. I'm…

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FEMINISM, MEN AND THE STUDY OF MASCULINITY WHICH WAY NOW?

Matthew Shepherd

Through reference to contemporary feminist literature, this article explores the potential of men's involvement in feminism. Although primarily a women's movement, it is argued…

FEMINISM AND MASCULINITY: RECONCEPTUALIZING THE DICHOTOMY OF REASON AND EMOTION

Christine A. James

In the context of feminist and postmodern thought, traditional conceptions of masculinity and what it means to be a “Real Man” have been critiqued. In Genevieve Lloyd's The Man of

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A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO BASH: CONFESSIONS OF AN EX‐MAN‐HATER

Kay Leigh Hagan

I remember well my first conscious exchange with a Good Man. Tom was the best friend of a man I had been dating for several months, and a warm acquaintance—though hardly a…

Cover of International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy

ISSN:

0144-333X

e-ISSN:

1758-6720

ISSN-L:

0144-333X

Online date, start – end:

1981

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Prof Colin Williams