Man Enough? by Jackson Katz

Man Enough? by Jackson Katz

Why has the U.S. never had a woman president? With Hillary Clinton engaged in a historic campaign that could see her becoming the first woman elected president of the United States, the national conversation about gender and the presidency is gaining critical momentum. Commentators have fixated on the special challenges women candidates for the presidency face: endless media scrutiny abGender has always been a crucial factor in presidential politics. In Man Enough? Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and the Politics of Presidential Masculinity, Jackson Katz puts forth the original and highly provocative thesis that in recent decades presidential campaigns have become the center stage of an ongoing national debate about manhood, a kind of quadrennial referendum on what type of man--or one day, woman--embodies not only our ideological beliefs, but our very identity as a nation. Whether he is examining right-wing talk radio's relentless attacks on the masculinity of Democratic candidates, how fears of appearing weak and vulnerable end up shaping candidates' actual policy positions, how the ISIS attacks on Paris and elsewhere have pushed candidates to assume an increasingly hypermasculine posture, or the groundbreaking quality of Hillary Clinton's runs for the presidency in 2008 and 2016, Katz offers a new way to understand the role of identity politics in presidential campaigns. In the end, Man Enough? offers nothing less than a paradigm-shifting way to understand the very nature of the American presidency.

Jackson Katz is known around the world for his innovative work in preventing gender violence among men and boys, notably in sports and the military. He is a cofounder of Northeastern University's Center for the Study of Sports in Society's Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) program. MVP is most commonly associated with collegiate sports, however the 2005 Super Bowl champion New England Patriots and the 2004 World Series champion Boston Red Sox have also utilized it. Katz also oversees the United States Marine Corps' first-ever global gender violence prevention program. Millions of college and high school students have learned about masculinity and gender violence thanks to his award-winning educational video Tough Guide, his appearances in the films Wrestling with Manhood and Spin the Bottle, and his statewide lectures.

He has talked in forty-three states since 1990 at over nine hundred colleges, prep schools, high schools, middle schools, professional conferences, and military institutions. He was born in Boston and now resides in the Los Angeles region with his family. Visit www.jacksonkatz.com for additional details.

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ISBN 13	9781566560832
ISBN 10	1566560837
Title	Man Enough?
Author	Jackson Katz
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Interlink Publishing Group, Inc
Year published	2016-01-20
Number of pages	320
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