Men's Lives

by Michael S. Kimmel and Michael A. Messner

Book Overview

Now published by Oxford University Press--at a new, lower price--Men's Lives reflects on the question "What does it mean to be a man in contemporary U.S. society?" Edited by two of the field's most... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 020569294X
• ISBN13: 9780205692941
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
• Length: 628 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Men's Lives

Received it right away and was in the condition the seller described. I would recommend this seller.

SOC381

I had this book for SOC381, Men and Masculinity. great read, some of the articles are hard to read (just a tonne of quotes and statistics... no depth) I reccomend it

Kimmel and Messner: a critique of gender

While some reviewers seem to state that Kimmel and Messner are painting men in a particularly bad light, these reviews seem to miss the key points that the authors are trying to make: the problem is masculinity and the way men perform masculinity, not males themselves. Kimmel and Messner critique gender and all the stereotypes surrounding it to present a manual for understanding masculinity as a social construction. Some articles in this reader are less helpful than others but overall it is a great introduction to masculinity studies and I highly recommend it. The book presents a variety of men's voices while sadly leaving out men with disabilities and trans men. The book cities arenas of oppression and explains how men AND women contribute to a culture where oppressive masculinity is allowed to reign.

An engaging and diverse anthology of forefront scholarship.

The fourth edition of Kimmel and Messner's Men's Lives is an engaging anthology accessing the forefront of scholarship about diverse men and masculinities. Going beyond earlier texts and collections, Men's Lives now reflects the development of greater theoretical sophistication and coherence in a field once often represented as anecdote and generalization. It is not simply "good men's studies," it is good gender studies. An instructor's resource manual is available and provides relevant summaries, experiential learning exercises, and examination questions, plus key terms, films, and internet resources.