Masculinity Studies and Feminist Theory: New Directions - Softcover

Gardiner, Judith Kegan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0231122799 ISBN 13: 9780231122795

Publisher: Columbia University Press, 2002

Synopsis

This collection overturns old paradigms about identity, victimization, and dominant and alternative forms of masculinity to advance new dialogues between masculinity studies and feminist theory.

How are male power and privilege constituted and represented? What are the effects of men's masculinity on women and men? How can more egalitarian forms of masculinity be fostered? Looking particularly at literature, film, and classroom practices, Masculinity Studies and Feminist Theory links the analysis of masculinities with feminism's ethical and political agenda for the future.

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Review:

With this volume, 'masculinity studies'comes of age as an intellectual field both in dialogue with and in alliance with feminist theory. Judith Kegan Gardiner has assembled some of the most distinguished practitioners of both masculinity studies and feminist theory working in universities today and they have collectively thought through the different ways in which feminist theory and masculinity are related.--Michael Kimmel (in the preface)

The wisdom of this collection... is its portrayal of feminist theory and masculinities studies as partners.--Choice

About the Author:

Judith Kegan Gardiner is professor of English and gender and women's studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. An editor of the journal Feminist Studies, she is the author of Rhys, Stead, Lessing, and the Politics of Empathy and editor of Provoking Agents: Gender and Agency in Theory and Practice.

About this edition

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0231122799
• ISBN 13: 9780231122795
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400