Understanding the experiences of men in U.S. society
Edited by two of the field’s most prominent researchers, Men’s Lives, 9th edition, reflects on the question “What does it mean to be a man in contemporary U.S. society?”
Organized around themes that define masculinity, this reader uses a social-constructionist view to examine how men construct masculinity within a social and historical context.
Learning Goals
Upon completing this book, readers will be able to:
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Michael S. Kimmel is Professor of Sociology at SUNY at Stony Brook. He is the author of Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men (HarperCollins, 2008) which was featured on the Today Show, Good Morning America and featured on over one hundred radio and newspaper and blog reviews. His other books include Changing Men (1987), Men’s Lives(8th edition, 2009) Against the Tide: Profeminist Men in the United States, 1776-1990 (1992), The Politics of Manhood (1996), Manhood: A Cultural History (1996, 10th anniversary second edition, 2006), and The Gendered Society (3rd edition, 2008). He co-edited The Encyclopedia on Men and Masculinities (2004) and Handbook of Studies on Men and Masculinities (2004). He is the founder and editor of Men and Masculinities, the field’s premier scholarly journal, a book series on Gender and Sexuality at New York University Press, and edited the Sage Series on Men and Masculinities. He lectures extensively in corporations and on campuses in the U.S. and abroad. He lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife, Amy Aronson, and their 10 year old son, Zachary.
After receiving his B.A. and M.A. from C.S.U. Chico, Michael Messner received his Ph.D. in Sociology at U.C. Berkeley. He is professor of sociology and gender studies at the University of Southern California, where he has worked for 25 years. His teaching and research focuses on gender and sports, men and masculinities, and gender-based violence. In 2010, the USC Center for Feminist Research released the most recent update of his longitudinal study, Gender in televised sports. He is the author of several books, including most recently It's all for the kids: Gender, families and youth sports (California, 2009), and King of the wild suburb: A memoir of fathers, sons and guns (Plain View Press, 2011). Messner is currently researching men who work with boys and men to stop gender-based violence. In 2011, the California Women's Law Center honored him with its Pursuit of Justice Award, for his work in support of girls and women in sport.
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