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Men Engaging Feminisms: Pro-Feminism, Backlashes and Schooling
Written by two men from a feminist perspective, this volume present a series of essays on different facets of contemporary feminist developments in education; developments in theory and popular culture; the different versions of the men's movement; the changing structural arrangements of education; achievement statistics and the "what about the boys?" debate; and case studies of programs for boys in schools. The authors draw on examples from many countries, although they are based in Australia. The conclusion argues for a politics of alliance between men and feminism. Distributed by Taylor & Francis. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
192 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1999
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July 12, 2019
I think my son will enjoy reading this, I will use some of it in my article even though it's a shame there's not a more recent version. It's scary how much of this is still relevant.
It was especially useful for me to separate out mythpoets from other types of recuperative masculinity advocates, the thing about them is sometimes on the surface they seem pro-feminist but there is the essentialised bottom line which is actually against any meaningful liberation for women (beyond being "valued" in a shallow way). Aspects of this book were kinda defensive toward feminism (despite being a clearly pro-feminist book) and I tried hard not to be irritated by that. It also tried too hard to recuperate recuperative masculinity which was clearly a doomed task. I guess that was the sort of "partial agreement" that is meant to work in debates where everyone feels very angry. I appreciated that there was an unyielding core in the pro-feminist stance for all the kind of "niceness" outwardly.
To be fair this sort of reasoned way of writing probably gets people further than my extreme anger and wanting to criticise and tear up everything. I mean clearly noone listened to them much since 1999 when they wrote this...then again the "gender multiculturalism" (which is Connell but they strongly promote it) is certainly more of a thing now. The recuperative masculinity voices are yelling so much perhaps because most of us are moving on.
Perhaps...
It was especially useful for me to separate out mythpoets from other types of recuperative masculinity advocates, the thing about them is sometimes on the surface they seem pro-feminist but there is the essentialised bottom line which is actually against any meaningful liberation for women (beyond being "valued" in a shallow way). Aspects of this book were kinda defensive toward feminism (despite being a clearly pro-feminist book) and I tried hard not to be irritated by that. It also tried too hard to recuperate recuperative masculinity which was clearly a doomed task. I guess that was the sort of "partial agreement" that is meant to work in debates where everyone feels very angry. I appreciated that there was an unyielding core in the pro-feminist stance for all the kind of "niceness" outwardly.
To be fair this sort of reasoned way of writing probably gets people further than my extreme anger and wanting to criticise and tear up everything. I mean clearly noone listened to them much since 1999 when they wrote this...then again the "gender multiculturalism" (which is Connell but they strongly promote it) is certainly more of a thing now. The recuperative masculinity voices are yelling so much perhaps because most of us are moving on.
Perhaps...
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