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The Politics of Manhood: Profeminist Men Respond to the Mythopoetic Men's Movement (And the Mythopoetic Leaders Answer) by [Kimmel, Michael]

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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.

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Publisher: Temple University Press (January 28, 2009)
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A THOUGHT-PROVOKING SERIES OF ESSAYS ON THE "MEN'S MOVEMENT"

September 23, 2011

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Editor Michael Scott Kimmel (born 1951) is an American sociologist specializing in gender studies. He holds the position of Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in New York and is a spokesperson of NOMAS (The National Organization For Men Against Sexism). He has written other books such as Men's Lives (8th Edition),The Gendered Society,The Gender of Desire: Essays on Male Sexuality, etc.

He wrote in the Preface to this 1995 book, "This book had its origins in rejection. Michael Kaufman and I had been working on an essay about Robert Bly's book Iron John: A Book About Men, trying to engage critically with the ideas of the mythopoetic men's movement. A friend had mentioned that Kay Leigh was editing a book to be called Women Respond to the Men's Movement: A Feminist Collection, and I thought that this might be an appropriate arena for Michael and me to publish such a critique."

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"...I am always aware that my close childhood connection with my father is quite unusual among my men's movement friends." (Pg. 3)
"It should come as no surprise, then, to observe that the overwhelming majority of the men who are currently involved in the new men's movement are precisely middle class, middle aged, white and heterosexual." (Pg. 18)
"The mythopoetic men's retreats ... appeals not to men who want to be men, but rather men who want to re-become boys... So said Peter Pan. So say the men at wildman retreats." (Pg. 36-37)
"...the best strategy to promote war is to question the President's manhood." (Pg. 135)
"A generalisation I would make is that the majority of men have not gone soft but are confused about their identity as men." (Pg. 218)
"In this context, calling men Mama's boys, soft males and pussy whipped because they listen too much to women is quite counterproductive---the wrong male qualities are being stigmatized." (Pg. 228)
"First, it is necessary to consider what the mythopoetic men are seeking. For the most part they seek self-change, not social change." (Pg. 324)

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Michael Kimmel is quite possibly one of the most privileged ...

March 10, 2015

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Michael Kimmel is quite possibly one of the most privileged white men in academia. Yet he expects OTHER men to accede to the needs of women. Pass.

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Rod Van Mechelen

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March 4, 2000

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I met Michael S. Kimmel on the Bertice Barry show where he was representing the interests of blacks versus white men. (Like most "3rd generation" American Indians, I pretty much look like any other white guy.) His position was that white men are privileged from birth by virtue of being white and, in the interests of leveling the playing field it's time white men put themselves at a relative disadvantage. As a published college professor, he is one of the most privileged white men in the country. Since he didn't seem anxious to give that up, one would have to assume he belongs to that class of elitists who expect to receive special dispensation from sharing those disadvantages.

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