Feminism and Men: Reconstructing Gender Relations

Steven Schacht, Doris Ewing

NYU Press, 1998 - Family & Relationships - 310 pages

Too often feminism has been defined as a "woman only" arena, or in competitive terms of male versus female privilege, rather than as a cooperative effort to improve the quality of life for everyone. Indeed, a good deal of feminist scholarship has failed to take into account the relational nature of gender, preferring instead to focus on the ways in which men and women are irreconcilably opposed.
With a view to beginning a more constructive dialogue between women and men, the contributors to Feminism and Men argue that the feminist movement can no longer stand to view with suspicion those men who have proved themselves sympathetic to issues of gender equity. Bringing together the work of scholars across various disciplines committed to maximizing the inclusion of pro-feminist men in the feminist movement, the book convincingly demonstrates how and why feminist goals cannot be realized until men and women come together to eliminate the shared harm of patriarchal realities.
Contributors include R.W. Connell, Riane Eisler, Kay Leigh Hagan, bell hooks, Christine A. James, Robert Jensen, Michael S. Kimmel, Gary Lemons, Michael Messner, Matthew Shepherd, and John Stoltenberg.

Contents

• From Conscience and Common Sense: 21
• Making Womanist: 43
• Radical Feminist and Socialist Feminist Mens: 67
• Confronting Sexual Violence: 89
• Patriarchal Sex: 99
• Can Men Travel: 119
• on the Movement from Gender Identity: 146
• Confessions of: 161
• Reconceptualizing: 183
• Issues of Identity: 202
• Gender Politics for Men: 225
• From Scoring: 237
• Comrades in Struggle: 265
• Profeminist Mens Groups Working toward: 281
• Contributors: 305

About the author

Steven P. Schacht is Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology at Montana State University. Doris W. Ewing is Associate Professor of Sociology at Southwest Missouri State University.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Feminism and Men: Reconstructing Gender Relations
• Editors: Steven Schacht, Doris Ewing
• Publisher: NYU Press, 1998
• ISBN: 0814780849, 9780814780848
• Length: 310 pages
• Subjects: Family & Relationships / General; Health & Fitness / Sexuality; Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory; Social Science / Gender Studies; Social Science / General; Social Science / Women's Studies