Michael Kimmel

Michael Scott Kimmel (born 1951) is an American sociologist. His focus is pro-feminism. He teaches at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in New York and is the editor of Men and Masculinities. Kimmel is a spokesperson of NOMAS (The National Organization For Men Against Sexism)[1]. He is the husband of Amy Aronson, a Fordham University Professor.

Comments regarding "Fight Clubs"

In an article about a "fight club" located in Menlo Park, CA., Kimmel remarked that men involved in fight clubs had a sadomasochistic trait and were "the male version of the girls who cut themselves."[2]dead link

Publications

• Changing Men: New Directions in the Study of Men and Masculinity, Sage, 1987.
• Absolutism and its Discontents: State and Society in 17th Century France and England. Transaction, 1988.
• Revolution: A Sociological Perspective. Temple University Press, 1990.
• Men Confront Pornography. Crown, 1990; New American Library, 1991.
• Against the Tide: Pro-Feminist Men in the U.S., 1776-1990, Beacon, 1992.
• Men's Lives (with Michael Messner). Macmillan, 1989, 1992, 1995.
• The Politics of Manhood. Temple University Press, 1995.
• Manhood in America: A Cultural History. Free Press, 1996.
• The Gendered Society. Oxford University Press, 2000
• Men & Masculinities: A Social, Cultural, and Historical Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO, 2003 (Michael Kimmel, Amy Aronson)
• Handbook of Studies on Men and Masculinities, SAGE Publications, 2004 (edited with Jeff Hearn and Robert Connell)
• The Gender of Desire: Essays on Masculinity. State University of New York Press, Albany. 2005
• Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men. Harper, 2008.
• Sociology Now. Pearson Allyn and Bacon, 2009 (Michael Kimmel, Amy Aronson)
• Men's Lives. Pearson Allyn and Bacon, 2010 (Michael Kimmel, Michael Messner)

See also

• Pro-feminism
• Masculinities
• Men and feminism

External links

• Interview

Articles Online

• www.newint.org "A Black woman took my job" - Michael Kimmel argues that it is in men’s interest to work for gender equality, New Internationalist 37, 3 November 2004
• www.fjaz.com TOWARD A PEDAGOGY OF THE OPPRESSOR, Tikkun magazine Nov/Dec 2002
• chronicle.com Gender, Class and Terrorism, The Chronicle of higher education, February 8, 2002
• www.eurowrc.org "Gender Equality: Not for Women Only", Lecture prepared for International Women's Day Seminar, European Parliament, Brussels - 8 March 2001
• gender-policy.tripod.com Global Masculinities: Restoration and Resistance
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