Some Men by Michael A Messner
What does it mean for men to join with women in preventing sexual assault and domestic violence? This book, based on life history interviews with men and women anti-violence activists, illuminates both the promise of men's violence prevention work, as well as the strains and tensions that inhere, both for men as feminist allies, and for the women they work with.-
Base Towns
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Sex, Politics, and Putin
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The Human Right to Dominate
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DREAMers and the Choreography of Protest
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Women in War
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Taking Root
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Empire's Legacy
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Sesame Street Around the World
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Democratic Practice
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Contradictions of Democracy
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Democracy Reloaded
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Discursive Turns and Critical Junctures
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Fire in the Heart
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Nonviolent Revolutions
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Curated Stories
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Ethnic Boundary Making
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Contentious Rituals
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The Silk Road
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Gains and Losses
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Situational Breakdowns
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Legacies and Memories in Movements
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Democracy in the Making
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Public Characters
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Flexible Authoritarianism
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The Return of the Native
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Plausible Legality
Successive lively chapters introduce the notion of men as allies, portray in detail each of the three cohorts and their formative contexts and controversies, analyze important issues of accountability, and conclude with an enlightening discussion of men, feminism, and social justiceTheir intersectional analysis is fascinating even when it reproduces asymmetries that plague contemporary feminist analysis. * L. D. Brush, University of Pittsburgh, CHOICE *
In the last four decades or so, there has grown up a diverse activist community of men who understand that feminism is their movement, too - not only because they support daughters, wives, mothers and co-workers, but because they see violence against females as a normalization of all violence, and a powerful way of limiting men's full humanity, too. If you want to meet them, learn more and hope more, you'll find them in the pages of Some Men, a practical, readable, inspiring guide to a crucial, growing, yet rarely reported American movement. * Gloria Steinem *
Some Men is a splendid book. Authors Messner, Greenberg and Peretz combine moving narrative, careful research, and sharp analysis. Their book tells in depth the story of those American men who have worked to end rape, domestic violence, and other forms of men's violence against women. Tracing the complex relations with changing feminism, and the intense debates, failures and successes of three generations of activist men, this is vividly-written contemporary history from which everyone concerned with gender justice can learn. * Raewyn Connell, Author of Masculinities and Confronting Equality *
For more than 40 years, a growing tribe of males has been making an exodus from the desert of conventional manhood. The remarkable journeys of a number of them are recounted in this inspiring chronicle of the profeminist men's movement. Some Men is sure to stir the hearts of anyone championing a world where men denounce violence against women and advocate for the liberation of men. * Rob Okun, Editor of the anthology, VOICE MALE: The Untold Story of the Profeminist Men's Movement *
In this moving book, the authors provide insight into the hearts and minds of men who took seriously the feminist call by making lifetime commitments as allies in the movement to end violence against women. A stellar book that is carefully grounded in the history of the feminist and anti-violence movements, it is a must-read not only for students and scholars of gender, masculinity, feminism, and the anti-violence movement, but also for policy-makers and activists working toward ending gender-based violence. * Verta Taylor, Professor Sociology and Feminist Studies, University of California Santa Barbara *
In the last four decades or so, there has grown up a diverse activist community of men who understand that feminism is their movement, too - not only because they support daughters, wives, mothers and co-workers, but because they see violence against females as a normalization of all violence, and a powerful way of limiting men's full humanity, too. If you want to meet them, learn more and hope more, you'll find them in the pages of Some Men, a practical, readable, inspiring guide to a crucial, growing, yet rarely reported American movement. * Gloria Steinem *
Some Men is a splendid book. Authors Messner, Greenberg and Peretz combine moving narrative, careful research, and sharp analysis. Their book tells in depth the story of those American men who have worked to end rape, domestic violence, and other forms of men's violence against women. Tracing the complex relations with changing feminism, and the intense debates, failures and successes of three generations of activist men, this is vividly-written contemporary history from which everyone concerned with gender justice can learn. * Raewyn Connell, Author of Masculinities and Confronting Equality *
For more than 40 years, a growing tribe of males has been making an exodus from the desert of conventional manhood. The remarkable journeys of a number of them are recounted in this inspiring chronicle of the profeminist men's movement. Some Men is sure to stir the hearts of anyone championing a world where men denounce violence against women and advocate for the liberation of men. * Rob Okun, Editor of the anthology, VOICE MALE: The Untold Story of the Profeminist Men's Movement *
In this moving book, the authors provide insight into the hearts and minds of men who took seriously the feminist call by making lifetime commitments as allies in the movement to end violence against women. A stellar book that is carefully grounded in the history of the feminist and anti-violence movements, it is a must-read not only for students and scholars of gender, masculinity, feminism, and the anti-violence movement, but also for policy-makers and activists working toward ending gender-based violence. * Verta Taylor, Professor Sociology and Feminist Studies, University of California Santa Barbara *
Michael A. Messner is Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California. Max A. Greenberg is a Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology at the University of Southern California. Tal Peretz is Lecturer in Sociology at Seattle University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780199338764 |
| ISBN 10 | 0199338760 |
| Title | Some Men |
| Author | Michael A Messner |
| Series | Oxford Studies In Culture And Politics |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Year published | 2015-04-02 |
| Number of pages | 274 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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