Revisioning Men's Lives: Gender, Intimacy, And Power: Gender Intimacy & Power + - Hardcover

Kupers.

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9780898629934: Revisioning Men's Lives: Gender, Intimacy, And Power: Gender Intimacy & Power +

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ISBN 10: 0898629934 ISBN 13: 9780898629934

Publisher: Guilford Press, 1993

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Blending dramatic personal and clinical experiences, psychiatrist Terry Kupers shows the dilemmas facing men who want to transcend traditional gender roles. We witness brutally frank discussions with Kuper's clients about their struggles with wives, sons, fathers, and work, and see how these men gain insights and solutions which transform their lives. Through gripping clinical and autobiographical material, Dr. Kupers reflects larger themes of gender, intimacy, and power, and shows how the deeply divided men's movement has yet to provide answers which allow a man to connect emotionally without becoming "less of a man" in the process. This is an important and powerful book, one which will provide men and their significant others with new ways to understand and construct their lives.

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"Terry Kuper's new book, Revisioning Men's Lives, is a must read for any professional teaching the psychology of men or new gender studies. It provides one of the best available texts combining personal experience, therapeutic vignettes, and sociological analysis." --William S. Pollack, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School, President, Massachusetts Psychological Association, Co-author, In a Time of Fallen Heroes: The Recreation of Masculinity "Revisioning Men's Lives is a welcome contribution to the growing literature on contemporary men's issues. Kupers' nuanced analysis avoids simplistic formulas and either/or dichotomies, insisting on both faithfulness to men's lived experience and sensitivity to their social context. Suitable for classroom use, it covers a wide range of issues with sensitivity and insight: competition, families, friendships, sexuality, homophobia, and politics." --Harry Brod, editor of THE MAKING OF MASCULINITIES and A MENSCH AMONG MEN and Founding Editor of MEN'S STUDIES REVIEW "This is a courageous book about how men can grow out of their sexism and homophobia and heal into a powerful equality with women. Dr. Kupers offers a finely detailed map of how men can transcend dysfunction and aggression and achieve integrity and cooperation." --Franklin Abbott, editor of NEW MEN, NEW MINDS and MEN AND INTIMACY "REVISIONING MEN'S LIVES is a sensitive, honest report from the trenches of embattled, but still lethal, forms of masculinity in the U.S. today. Dr. Kupers draws upon decades of clinical experience, social activism, self-reflection and his participation in men's groups and movements to offer an insightful, compassionate reading of the pathologies of contemporary masculinities, and to envision, while he models, hopeful manly alternatives to John Wayne and Iron John." --Judith Stacey, author of BRAVE NEW FAMILIES "Terry Kupers' new book, Revisioning Men's Lives breaks new and important ground in linking men's personal transformation to a political agenda that is empathically pro-feminist, and anti-misogynist. He takes on the challenging issues of homophobia, male emotional self-regulation, and male friendships in ways that both inform and challenge. Throughout, the emphasis is highlighted by therapeutic and personal vignettes linking the individual with the societal level of analysis. In the end, he suggests major shifts of power--away from male domination of women--and provides an excellent rebuttal to Bly's complaint about 'soft' men: The creation of a world of caring, loving, fathering men--allies of women--who yet remain strong, potent and masculine. Both men and women will gain much from reading this volume." --William S. Pollack, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School, President, Massachusetts Psychological Association, Co-author, IN A TIME OF FALLEN HEROES: THE RE-CREATION OF MASCULINITY "Terry Kupers' new book, REVISIONING MEN'S LIVES, is a must read for any professional teaching the psychology of men or new gender studies. It provides one of the best available texts combining personal experience, therapeutic vignette and sociological analysis." --William S. Pollack, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School, President, Massachusetts Psychological Association, Co-author, IN A TIME OF FALLEN HEROES: THE RE-CREATION OF MASCULINITY "Terry Kuper's new book, "Revisioning Men's Lives," is a must read for any professional teaching the psychology of men or new gender studies. It provides one of the best available texts combining personal experience, therapeutic vignettes, and sociological analysis." --William S. Pollack, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School, President, Massachusetts Psychological Association, Co-author, "In a Time of Fallen Heroes: The Recreation of Masculinity" ""Revisioning Men's Lives" is a welcome contribution to the growing literature on contemporary men's issues. Kupers' nuanced analysis avoids simplistic formulas and either/or dichotomies, insisting on both faithfulness to men's lived experience and sensitivity to their social context. Suitable for classroom use, it covers a wide range of issues with sensitivity and insight: competition, families, friendships, sexuality, homophobia, and politics." --Harry Brod, editor of THE MAKING OF MASCULINITIES and A MENSCH AMONG MEN and Founding Editor of MEN'S STUDIES REVIEW "This is a courageous book about how men can grow out of their sexism and homophobia and heal into a powerful equality with women. Dr. Kupers offers a finely detailed map of how men can transcend dysfunction and aggression and achieve integrity and cooperation." --Franklin Abbott, editor of NEW MEN, NEW MINDS and MEN AND INTIMACY "REVISIONING MEN'S LIVES is a sensitive, honest report from the trenches of embattled, but still lethal, forms of masculinity in the U.S. today. Dr. Kupers draws upon decades of clinical experience, social activism, self-reflection and his participation in men's groups and movements to offer an insightful, compassionate reading of the pathologies of contemporary masculinities, and to envision, while he models, hopeful manly alternatives to John Wayne and Iron John." --Judith Stacey, author of BRAVE NEW FAMILIES "Terry Kupers' new book, "Revisioning Men's Lives" breaks new and important ground in linking men's personale "Those new to the field of men's issues will find plenty of food for thought and numerous references to pursue..." --"Readings" ""Revisioning Men's Lives,.".is a profeminist book about men, their need for power, and their domination of women and other men in an attempt to gain or maintain power....The book could be used in psychology courses such as sex roles, psychology of men, or psychology of gender...." --"Contemporary Psychology" ""Revisioning Men's Lives" comes down squarely on the side of helping men change. But Kupers is more adept at social analysis than other practitioners, embedding his personal reflections and therapeutic anecdotes within a larger context of the shifting relations between women and men." --"The San Francisco Chronicle" "Kupers is on the vanguard of a wave of educated professionals who are challenging the 'evil male' stereotype that fuels so much contemporary feminism and male depression...Kupers deserves praise for championing the cause of caring, conscientious men, and for advocating a reformed social order that recognizes men for the substance of their heart." --"The Oakland Tribune" "Kuper's fundamental decency is the shining part of this book. He really does want to show men the way to being less brutal and more related; he really does want to teach us to experience male friendship. He calls for action, and he means it." --"Northern California Psychiatric Physician"

About the Author:

Terry A. Kupers, M.D., a professor in the Graduate School of Psychology at The Wright Institute in Berkeley, California, practices psychiatry in Oakland. The author of Public Therapy: The Practice of Psychotherapy in the Public Mental Health Clinic (1981) and Ending Therapy: The Meaning of Termination (1988), he is married and has three young adult sons.

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