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Book SynopsisArgues that the media have largely misrepresented the debate about modern masculinity and maleness. The author discusses Promise Keepers rallies, mythopoetic gatherings, white supremacists; accuses antifeminists as the real male bashers and questions the assertions that men suffer from domestic violence to the same degree as women.
Trade Review"Kimmel offers an insightful, balanced view of the problems behind 'me Tarzan, you Jane'." * Publishers Weekly (web exclusive) *
"Kimmel offers an insightful, balanced view of the problems behind 'me Tarzan, you Jane'." * Publishers Weekly (web exclusive) *
Table of ContentsHas "A man's world" become "A woman's nation"? : men's responses to women's increased equality in the twenty-first century
The children's hour: masculine redemption in contemporary film (with Amy Aronson)
Reconciliation, appropriation, inspiration, and conversation : four strategies of racial healing among white men
Who are the real male bashers?
A war against boys?
"Gender symmetry" in domestic violence
Profiling school shooters and shooters' schools : the cultural contexts of aggrieved entitlement and restorative masculinity
Globalization and its mal(e)contents : masculinity on the extreme right
Promise keepers : patriarchy's second coming as masculine renewal
Saving the males at VMI and Citadel
Janey got her gun : a VMI postscript
Who's afraid of men doing feminism?
Profeminist men : the "other" men's movement
