Feminism and Men: Reconstructing Gender Relations / Edition 1

by Steven Schacht, Doris Ewing

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780814780848
Publisher:	New York University Press
Publication date:	10/01/1998
Pages:	323
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 6.00(d)

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.