The Politics of Manhood: Profeminist Men Respond to the Mythopoetic Men's Movement (and the Mythopoetic Leaders Answer)Temple University Press, 2009 - 396 pages 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. |
Contents
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Fire in the Belly and the Mens Movement | 64 |
THE PERSONAL IS POLITICAL THE MYTHOPOETIC MENS MOVEMENT AS A SOCIAL MOVEMENT | 73 |
The Mens Movement and Its Newest BestSellers | 75 |
The Politics of the Mythopoetic Mens Movement | 89 |
Changing Men and Feminist Politics in the United States | 97 |
THE PERSONAL IS INTELLECTUAL HISTORICAL AND ANALYTIC CRITIQUES | 113 |
Psyche Society and the Mens Movement | 231 |
Cultural Daddyism and Male Hysteria | 243 |
Queer Weddings in Robert Elys Iron John and Clint Eastwoods Unforgiven | 257 |
THE STRUGGLE FOR MENS SOULS MYTHOPOETIC MEN RESPOND TO THE PROFEMINIST CRITIQUE | 269 |
Thoughts on Reading This Book | 271 |
The Postfeminist Mens Movement | 275 |
Toward a Socially Responsible Model of Masculinity | 287 |
Mythopoetic Mens Movements | 292 |
NineteenthCentury Fantasies of Masculine Retreat and Recreation or The Historical Rust on Iron John | 115 |
Foucault Bly and Masculinity | 151 |
Robert Ely and His Reaffirmation of Masculinity | 164 |
The Battle for Mens Souls | 173 |
Mythopoetic Mens Work as a Search for Communitas | 186 |
THE PERSONAL IS PERSONAL THE POLITICS OF THE MASCULINIST THERAPEUTIC | 205 |
Homophobia in Robert Elys Iron John | 207 |
The Shadow of Iron John | 213 |
A Critique of Ely | 222 |
Weve Come a Long Way Too Baby And Weve Still Got a Ways to Go So Give Us a Break | 308 |
Twentyfive Years in the Mens Movement | 313 |
CONCLUSION CAN WE ALL GET ALONG? | 321 |
Why Mythopoetic Men Dont Flock to NOMAS | 323 |
In Defense of the Mens Movements | 333 |
Betwixt and Between in the Mens Movement | 353 |
Afterword | 360 |
Contributors | 373 |
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