Men Speak Out: Views on Gender, Sex, and Power (Routledge, 2nd edition).
Men Speak Out: Views on Gender, Sex, and Power (2nd edition) highlights new essays on pornography, pop culture, queer identity, Muslim masculinity, and the war on women. With personal candor and political insight, this collection of diverse authors explores sex work, digital activism, incarceration, domestic violence, surviving incest, and standing firmly as male allies facing the backlash against women’s reproductive rights.
Featuring eleven new essays and six revised thematic sections, this second edition of a favorite anthology continues to encourage robust discussion and vibrant debate about masculinity and the possibilities for progressive change. The contemporary, compelling essays in Men Speak Out appeal to students, scholars, activists, and everyday readers.
Fashion Talks: Undressing the Power of Style (SUNY Press, with Marjorie Jolles)
Fashion Talks is a vibrant look at the politics of everyday style. Shira Tarrant and Marjorie Jolles bring together essays that cover topics such as lifestyle Lolitas, Hollywood baby bumps, haute couture hijab, gender fluidity, steampunk, and stripper shoes, and engage readers with accessible and thoughtful analyses of real-world issues. This collection explores whether style can shift the limiting boundaries of race, class, gender, and sexuality, while avoiding the traps with which it attempts to rein us in. Fashion Talks will appeal to cultural critics, industry insiders, mainstream readers, and academic experts who are curious about the role fashion plays in the struggles over identity, power, and the status quo. Buy the book here.
Men and Feminism (Seal Press)
There’s no denying that men’s involvement and interest in feminism is key to its continuing relevance and importance.
Addressing the question of why men should care about feminism in the first place, Men and Feminism lays the foundation for a larger discussion about feminism as a human issue, not simply a women’s issue. Men are crucial to the movement — as fathers, brothers, husbands, boyfriends, and friends.
From “why” to “how” to “what can men do,” Men and Feminism answers all the questions men have about how and why they should get behind feminism. Buy the book here.
Men Speak Out: Views on Gender, Sex, and Power (Routledge)
This exciting anthology compiles the diverse voices of men who explore issues of masculinity, sexuality, identity, and positive change. This one-of-a-kind anthology is hailed for asking sharp questions about negotiating the masculinity trap. Join the lively discussion about men’s crucial role in the fight for progressive change.
This provocative book puts issues on the table that are sure to stimulate conversation and lively debate. Buy the book here.
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When Sex Became Gender (Routledge)
When Sex Became Gender highlights the continuities between postwar interest in sex roles and contemporary arguments about gender. How did the term “sex” turn into “gender”? And is it really true that a vibrant feminist movement disappeared entirely after suffrage gains were won, only to suddenly resurface in the late 1960s?
Conventional wisdom tells us that feminism died during the mid-twentieth century, but this version of the story is not entirely true. When Sex Became Gender brings to light dominant ideals about sex roles and the feminist critiques these generated in the years between World War II and the women’s liberation movement of the 1960s. And in contrast with current books that drive a wedge between feminist generations, When Sex Became Gender highlights the continuities between postwar interest in sex roles and contemporary arguments about gender.
By establishing the historical and theoretical connections between feminist eras, Shira Tarrant shows how protofeminist ideas of the past served as the foundation for today’s focus on the social construction of gender. Buy the book here.
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