The Politics of Manhood: Profeminist Men Respond to the Mythopoetic Men's Movement (And the Mythopoetic Leaders Answer)
by Michael Kimmel
Temple University Press, 1995 eISBN: 978-1-4399-0146-5 | Cloth: 978-1-56639-365-2 | Paper: 978-1-56639-366-9 Library of Congress Classification HQ1090.3.P65 1995 Dewey Decimal Classification 305.320973
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ABOUT THIS BOOK The concept and reality of revolution continue to pose some of the most challenging and important questions in the world today. What causes revolution? Why do some people participate in revolutionary events while others do not? What is the role of religion and ideology in causing and sustaining revolution? Why do some revolutions succeed and some fail? These questions have preoccupied philosophers and social scientists for centuries. In Revolution, Michael S. Kimmel examines why the study of revolution has attained such importance and he provides a systematic historical analysis of key ideas and theories.
The book surveys the classical perspectives on revolution offered by nineteenth- and early twentieth-century theorists, such as Marx, Weber, Durkheim, Tocqueville, and Freud. Kimmel argues that their perspectives on revolution were affected by the reality of living through the revolutions of 1848 and 1917, a reality that raised crucial issues of class, state, bureaucracy, and motivation.
The author then turns to the interpretations of revolution offered by social scientists in the post-World War II period, especially modernization theory and social psychological theories. Here, he contends that the relative quiescence of the 1950s cast revolutions in a different light, which was poorly suited to explain the revolutionary upheavals that have marked the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. With reference to the work of Barrington Moore, Theda Skocpol, Immanuel Wallerstein, and Charles Tilly, among others, Kimmel develops the criteria for a structural theory of revolution. This lucid, accessible account includes contemporary analyses of the Nicaraguan, Iranian, and Angolan revolutions.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Spokesperson for the National Organization for Men Against Sexism, Michael S. Kimmel is Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, and editor of masculinities, a scholarly journal. His books include Men's Lives, Men Confront Pornography, and Manhood in America: A History.
REVIEWS
"...a watershed in the national conversation on masculinity that has emerged over the past few years....[T]his book represents not only an extremely interesting text and an historically important document, but also an intervention that will likely change the nature of discourse about men's lives."
—Ronald F. Levant, co-author of Masculinity Reconstructed
"This anthology offers an outlet to two sides of the men's movement: a series of profeminist male writers critique, primarily, the mythopoetic body of work of Robert Bly (Iron John, LJ 11/15/90) and, to a lesser extent, that of Sam Keen (Fire in the Belly, LJ 2/15/91); and Bly and other mythopoetic writers?including Aaron Kipnis, Shepard Bliss, and Onaje Benjamin?respond to the criticisms. Kimmel (sociology, SUNY at Stony Brook) concludes that the profeminists and mythopoetic movers and shakers have more in common than not, but a dichotomy still remains between their respective positions. Unfortunately, there is a noticeable neglect of the work of Warren Farrell. And, more generally, some of the essays on both sides are sometimes unfocused; full comprehension of the somewhat deep and heavy reading requires knowledge of the gender identity conundrum. Still, this confab should foster further investigation into revising the masculine role and gender identity for tomorrow. Recommended for upper-division academic libraries supporting gender studies programs and large public libraries where interest and demand warrant."--LIBRARY JOURNAL, Scott Johnson, Meridian Community Coll. Lib., Miss.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Preface
Publication Information
Introduction – Michael S. Kimmel
Part I: Conceptual Critiques
1. Weekend Warriors: Robert Bly and the Politics of Masculine Retreat – Michael S. Kimmel and Michael Kaufman
2. Mythopoetic Foundations and New Age Patriarchy – Ken Clatterbaugh
3. Gazing into Men's Middles: Sam Keen's Fire in the Belly – Don Sabo
Part II: The Personal is Political: The Mythopoetic Men's Movement as a Social Movement
4. Men at Bay: The Men's Movement and Its Newest Bestsellers – R.W. Connell
5. The Politics of the Mythopoetic Men's Movement – Harry Brod
6. "Changing Men" and Feminist Politics in the United States – Michael A. Messner
Part III: The Personal is Intellectual
7. Born to Run: Nineteenth Century Fantasies of Masculine Retreat and Recreation (or The Historical Rust on Iron John) – Michael S. Kimmel
8. Deep Masculinity as Social Control: Foucault, Bly and Masculinity – Tim Beneke
9. A Woman for Every Wild Man: Robert Bly and His Reaffirmation of Masculinity – David Gutterman
10. Renewal as Retreat: The Battle for Men's Souls – Timothy Nonn
11. Mythopoetic Men's Work as a Search for Communitas – Michael Schwalbe
Part IV: The Personal is Personal: The Politics of the Masculinist Therapeutic
12. Homophobia in Robert Bly's Iron John – Gordon Murray
13. The Shadow of Iron John – Paul Wolf-Light
14. Soft Males and Mama's Boys: A Critique of Bly – Terry A Kupers
15. Psyche, Society, and the Men's Movement – Chris Bullock
16. Cultural Daddy-ism and Male Hysteria, – David M. Weed
17. Iron Clint: Queer Weddings in Robert Bly's Iron John and Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven – Mark Simpson
Part V: The Struggle for Men's Souls: Mythopoetic Men Respond to the Pro Feminist Critique
18. Thoughts on Reading This Book – Robert Bly
19. The Post-Feminist Men's Movement – Aaron Kipnis
20. Healing, Community and Justice in the Men's Movement: Towards a Socially Responsible Model of Masculinity – Onaje Benjamin
21. Mythopoetic Men's Movements – Shepherd Bliss
22. We've Come a Long Way Too, Baby. And We've Still Got a Ways to Go. So Give Us a Break! – Marvin Allen
23. 25 Years in the Men's Movement – Jed Diamond
Part VI: Conclusion: Can We All Get Along?
24. Why Mythopoetic Men Don't Flock to NOMAS – Michael Schwalbe
25. In Defense of the Men's Movements – Don Shewey
26. Betwixt and Between in the Men's Movement – Mike Dash
Afterword: Tame Questions of Wild Men – Michael S. Kimmel
Contributors
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The Politics of Manhood: Profeminist Men Respond to the Mythopoetic Men's Movement (And the Mythopoetic Leaders Answer)
by Michael Kimmel
Temple University Press, 1995 eISBN: 978-1-4399-0146-5 Cloth: 978-1-56639-365-2 Paper: 978-1-56639-366-9
The concept and reality of revolution continue to pose some of the most challenging and important questions in the world today. What causes revolution? Why do some people participate in revolutionary events while others do not? What is the role of religion and ideology in causing and sustaining revolution? Why do some revolutions succeed and some fail? These questions have preoccupied philosophers and social scientists for centuries. In Revolution, Michael S. Kimmel examines why the study of revolution has attained such importance and he provides a systematic historical analysis of key ideas and theories.
The book surveys the classical perspectives on revolution offered by nineteenth- and early twentieth-century theorists, such as Marx, Weber, Durkheim, Tocqueville, and Freud. Kimmel argues that their perspectives on revolution were affected by the reality of living through the revolutions of 1848 and 1917, a reality that raised crucial issues of class, state, bureaucracy, and motivation.
The author then turns to the interpretations of revolution offered by social scientists in the post-World War II period, especially modernization theory and social psychological theories. Here, he contends that the relative quiescence of the 1950s cast revolutions in a different light, which was poorly suited to explain the revolutionary upheavals that have marked the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. With reference to the work of Barrington Moore, Theda Skocpol, Immanuel Wallerstein, and Charles Tilly, among others, Kimmel develops the criteria for a structural theory of revolution. This lucid, accessible account includes contemporary analyses of the Nicaraguan, Iranian, and Angolan revolutions.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Spokesperson for the National Organization for Men Against Sexism, Michael S. Kimmel is Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, and editor of masculinities, a scholarly journal. His books include Men's Lives, Men Confront Pornography, and Manhood in America: A History.
REVIEWS
"...a watershed in the national conversation on masculinity that has emerged over the past few years....[T]his book represents not only an extremely interesting text and an historically important document, but also an intervention that will likely change the nature of discourse about men's lives."
—Ronald F. Levant, co-author of Masculinity Reconstructed
"This anthology offers an outlet to two sides of the men's movement: a series of profeminist male writers critique, primarily, the mythopoetic body of work of Robert Bly (Iron John, LJ 11/15/90) and, to a lesser extent, that of Sam Keen (Fire in the Belly, LJ 2/15/91); and Bly and other mythopoetic writers?including Aaron Kipnis, Shepard Bliss, and Onaje Benjamin?respond to the criticisms. Kimmel (sociology, SUNY at Stony Brook) concludes that the profeminists and mythopoetic movers and shakers have more in common than not, but a dichotomy still remains between their respective positions. Unfortunately, there is a noticeable neglect of the work of Warren Farrell. And, more generally, some of the essays on both sides are sometimes unfocused; full comprehension of the somewhat deep and heavy reading requires knowledge of the gender identity conundrum. Still, this confab should foster further investigation into revising the masculine role and gender identity for tomorrow. Recommended for upper-division academic libraries supporting gender studies programs and large public libraries where interest and demand warrant."--LIBRARY JOURNAL, Scott Johnson, Meridian Community Coll. Lib., Miss.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Preface
Publication Information
Introduction – Michael S. Kimmel
Part I: Conceptual Critiques
1. Weekend Warriors: Robert Bly and the Politics of Masculine Retreat – Michael S. Kimmel and Michael Kaufman
2. Mythopoetic Foundations and New Age Patriarchy – Ken Clatterbaugh
3. Gazing into Men's Middles: Sam Keen's Fire in the Belly – Don Sabo
Part II: The Personal is Political: The Mythopoetic Men's Movement as a Social Movement
4. Men at Bay: The Men's Movement and Its Newest Bestsellers – R.W. Connell
5. The Politics of the Mythopoetic Men's Movement – Harry Brod
6. "Changing Men" and Feminist Politics in the United States – Michael A. Messner
Part III: The Personal is Intellectual
7. Born to Run: Nineteenth Century Fantasies of Masculine Retreat and Recreation (or The Historical Rust on Iron John) – Michael S. Kimmel
8. Deep Masculinity as Social Control: Foucault, Bly and Masculinity – Tim Beneke
9. A Woman for Every Wild Man: Robert Bly and His Reaffirmation of Masculinity – David Gutterman
10. Renewal as Retreat: The Battle for Men's Souls – Timothy Nonn
11. Mythopoetic Men's Work as a Search for Communitas – Michael Schwalbe
Part IV: The Personal is Personal: The Politics of the Masculinist Therapeutic
12. Homophobia in Robert Bly's Iron John – Gordon Murray
13. The Shadow of Iron John – Paul Wolf-Light
14. Soft Males and Mama's Boys: A Critique of Bly – Terry A Kupers
15. Psyche, Society, and the Men's Movement – Chris Bullock
16. Cultural Daddy-ism and Male Hysteria, – David M. Weed
17. Iron Clint: Queer Weddings in Robert Bly's Iron John and Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven – Mark Simpson
Part V: The Struggle for Men's Souls: Mythopoetic Men Respond to the Pro Feminist Critique
18. Thoughts on Reading This Book – Robert Bly
19. The Post-Feminist Men's Movement – Aaron Kipnis
20. Healing, Community and Justice in the Men's Movement: Towards a Socially Responsible Model of Masculinity – Onaje Benjamin
21. Mythopoetic Men's Movements – Shepherd Bliss
22. We've Come a Long Way Too, Baby. And We've Still Got a Ways to Go. So Give Us a Break! – Marvin Allen
23. 25 Years in the Men's Movement – Jed Diamond
Part VI: Conclusion: Can We All Get Along?
24. Why Mythopoetic Men Don't Flock to NOMAS – Michael Schwalbe
25. In Defense of the Men's Movements – Don Shewey
26. Betwixt and Between in the Men's Movement – Mike Dash
Afterword: Tame Questions of Wild Men – Michael S. Kimmel
Contributors
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