Men Doing Feminism (Thinking Gender) - Softcover

Tom Digby, .

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415916267 ISBN 13: 9780415916264

Publisher: Routledge, 1998

Synopsis

The relation between feminism and men is often presumed to be antagonistic, so that men are expected to resist feminism, and feminists are assumed to hate men. That pattern of opposition is disrupted, however, by the continually increasing numbers of men who are participating in feminist theory and practice, trying to integrate feminist perspectives into their scholarship, teaching, work, play, friendships, and romantic involvements. Responses to this male feminism have varied. The 18 contributors to this book - women, men, blacks, whites, gays, straights, transsexuals - use personal narrative to show ways that men's lives can shape their approaches to doing feminism and to convey the opportunities and challenges involved in integrating feminism into a man's life.

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Review:

"Tom Digby has put together a fine volume of diverse voices on the question of males doing feminist thought in the U.S. Avoiding the pitfalls of naive identity politics and standpoint escapism, the contributors explore the topic as a set of problems through which theoretical, political, moral, and existential commitments can be forged.."
-Lewis R. Gordon, Brown University
"The wonderfully diverse entries in this volume investigate the tensions between feminism and manhood, engaging the personal and the political, the moral and the epistemological. The authors' explorations of the strengths and weaknesses of male subject position challenge simplistic interpretations both of the subject/object distinction and of epistemologies based directly on social identities. This collection makes an original and substantive contribution to feminist theory..""
-Alison M. Jaggar University of Colorado, Boulder
"Being written by men and women, straights and gays, transsexuals, andpeople of different ethnic and racial backgrounds, these essays represent varied responses to the question of men doing feminism... which makes it an extremely valuable collection."
-Christine R. Metzo, University of Kentucky

From the Publisher:

Publisher's Description
The relation between feminism and men is often presumed to be antagonistic. Men are expected to resist feminism; feminists are assumed to hate men. However, that oppositionality is thrown into question by the increasing numbers of men involved in feminist theory and practice. This collection of essays, most of them published here for the first time, presents both enthusiastic and cautionary views of men doing feminism. The eighteen contributors to this book - women, men, blacks, whites, gays, straights, transsexuals - move the conversation about male feminism beyond simplistic notions of oppositionality between feminism and male identity. Many of the authors use personal narrative to show ways men's lives can shape approaches to doing feminism, and to convey the opportunities and challenges involved in integrating feminism into men's lives.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0415916267
• ISBN 13: 9780415916264
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 374