LEADER 04122nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910464257203321 005 20211012022539.0 010 $a1-283-38310-1 010 $a9786613383105 010 $a0-8135-4975-2 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813549750 035 $a(CKB)3170000000046822 035 $a(EBL)864878 035 $a(OCoLC)779141499 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000576028 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11395338 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000576028 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10553542 035 $a(PQKB)11334589 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC864878 035 $a(OCoLC)772000548 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse8136 035 $a(DE-B1597)526342 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813549750 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL864878 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10523585 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL338310 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000046822 100 $a20090924d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMisframing men$b[electronic resource] $ethe politics of contemporary masculinities /$fMichael Kimmel 210 $aNew Brunswick, N.J. $cRutgers University Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (255 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8135-4763-6 311 0 $a0-8135-4762-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tIntroduction: Misframing Men --$tPart One: Reframings --$tPart Two: Reversals --$tPart Three: Restorations --$tPart Four: Resistance --$tIndex --$tAbout the Author 330 $aThis 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 clichTs 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 confrontation with serious scientific research in their quest to find anatomical or evolutionary bases for promiscuity or porn addiction, hoping that by fiat, one can pronounce that "boys will be boys" and render it more than a flaccid tautology. And political pundits wring their hands about the feminization of American manhood, as if gender equality has neutered these formerly proud studs. Misframing Men, a collection of Michael Kimmel's commentaries on contemporary debates about masculinity, argues that the media have largely misframed this debate. Kimmel, among the world's best-known scholars in gender studies, discusses political moments such as the Virginia Military Institute and Citadel cases that reached the Supreme Court (he participated as expert witness for the Justice Department) along with Promise Keepers rallies, mythopoetic gatherings, and white supremacists. He takes on antifeminists as the real male bashers, questions the unsubstantiated assertions that men suffer from domestic violence to the same degree as women, and examines the claims made by those who want to rescue boys from the "misandrous" reforms initiated by feminism. In writings both solidly grounded and forcefully argued, Kimmel pushes the boundaries of today's modern conversation about men and masculinity. 606 $aMen$xIdentity 606 $aMasculinity 606 $aMen in mass media 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aMen$xIdentity. 615 0$aMasculinity. 615 0$aMen in mass media. 676 $a305.31 700 $aKimmel$b Michael S$0892406 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910464257203321 996 $aMisframing men$92470039 997 $aUNINA