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Misframing Men, a collection of Michael Kimmel's commentaries on contemporary debates about masculinity, argues that the media have largely misframed this debate. Kimmel, among the world's best-known scholars in gender studies, discusses political moments, takes on antifeminists as the real male bashers, questions the unsubstantiated assertions that men suffer from domestic violence to the same degree as women, and examines the claims made by those who want to rescue boys from the "misandrous" reforms initiated by feminism. In writings both solidly grounded and forcefully argued, Kimmel pushes the boundaries of today's modern conversation about men and masculinity

Intro -- THE GENDER OF DESIRE: Essays on Male Sexuality -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- I. The Construction of Male Sexual Desire -- 1. Gendering Desire -- 2. Masculinity as Homophobia: Fear, Shame, and Silence in the Construction of Gender Identity -- II. In Our Dreams: Sexual Fantasy and Sexual Representation -- 3. The Gender of Desire The Sexual Fantasies of Women and Men -- 4. Pornography and Male Sexuality -- 5. Sexual Violence in Three Pornographic Media: Toward a Sociological Explanation -- 6. Does Censorship Make a Difference?: An Aggregate Empirical Analysis of Pornography and Rape -- III. From Fantasy to Reality: Sexual Identity and Sexual Behavior -- 7. Sexual Balkanization: Gender and Sexuality as the New Ethnicities -- 8. Hard Issues and Soft Spots: Counseling Men about Sexuality -- 9. Bisexuality: A Sociological Perspective -- IV. Sex and Violence -- 11. What's Love Got to Do with It?: Rape, Domestic Violence, and the Making of Men -- 12. Gender Symmetry in Domestic Violence: A Substantive and Methodological Research Review -- 13. An Unnatural History of Rape -- 14. Reducing Men's Violence: The Personal Meets the Political -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Intro -- THE HISTORY OF MEN: Essays in the History of American and British Masculinities -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Invisible Masculinity -- American Masculinities -- 2. Born to Run: Fantasies of Male Escape from Rip Van Winkle to Robert Bly -- 3. Consuming Manhood: The Feminization of American Culture and the Recreation of the Male Body, 1832-1920 -- 4. Baseball and the Reconstitution of American Masculinity, 1880-1920 -- 5. Men's Responses to Feminism at the Turn of the Century -- 6. The Cult of Masculinity: American Social Character and the Legacy of the Cowboy -- 7. From "Conscience and Common Sense" to "Feminism for Men": Pro-Feminist Men's Rhetoric of Support for Women's Equality -- British Masculinities -- 8. From Lord and Master to Cuckold and Fop: Masculinity in 17th-Century England -- MUNDUS FOPPENSIS AND THE LEVELLERS -- 9. "Greedy Kisses" and "Melting Extasy": Notes on the Homosexual World of Early 18th-Century England as Found in Love Letters Between a certain late Nobleman and the famous Mr. Wilson -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

Examines the continually shifting meanings of masculinity as a function of social construction processes across time & cultures, focusing on the role of homophobia in structuring & maintaining dominant masculinities. Classical social & political theories are analyzed to reveal their constructions of both hegemonic & alternative masculinities, & the development of different models of manhood since the late 18th century is chronicled, including the "genteel patriarch," the "heroic artisan," & the "marketplace man" of urban capitalism. The function of masculinity as a "repudiation" of the feminine is discussed, focusing on the equation of maleness with heterosexuality. The role of homophobia in perpetrating forms of oppression, eg, sexism, racism, & heterosexism, is also examined. 35 References. K. Hyatt Stewart

Since the late eighteenth century, American men have supported women's equality. (see Kimmel and Mosmiller, 1992). Even before the first Woman's Rights Convention at Seneca Falls, New York heralded the birth of the organized women's movement in 1848, American men had begun to argue in favor of women's rights. That celebrated radical, Thomas Paine, for example, mused in 1775 that any formal declaration of independence from England should include women, since women have, as he put it, "an equal right to virtue."(Paine, [1775] 1992, 63–66). Other reformers, like Benjamin Rush and John Neal articulated claims for women's entry into schools and public life. Charles Brockden Brown, America's first professional novelist, penned a passionate plea for women's equality in Alcuin(1798).