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Spreading MisandryThe Teaching of Contempt for Men in Popular Culture |
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A probing inquiry into the pervasiveness of negative male stereotypes in popular culture.
Paul Nathanson and Katherine Young argue that since the 1990s men have been portrayed in popular culture as evil, inadequate, or honorary women, from Designing Women, Home Improvement, Oprah, and Cape Fear to Hallmark cards, comic strips, and the New York Times columns of Anna Quindlen. The first of a three-part series, Spreading Misandry offers an impressive critique of popular culture to identify a phenomenon that is just now being recognized as a serious cultural problem - misandry, the sexist counterpart of misogyny.
Nathanson and Young urge us to rethink prevalent assumptions about men that result in profoundly disturbing stereotypes that foster contempt. Spreading Misandry breaks new ground by discussing misandry in moral terms rather than purely psychological or sociological ones and by criticizing not only ideological feminism but other ideologies on both the left and the right.
Nathanson and Young urge us to rethink prevalent assumptions about men that result in profoundly disturbing stereotypes that foster contempt. Spreading Misandry breaks new ground by discussing misandry in moral terms rather than purely psychological or sociological ones and by criticizing not only ideological feminism but other ideologies on both the left and the right.
Details
392 Pages, 6 x 9
ISBN 9780773530997
March 2006
Formats: Paperback, eBook
"Genuinely intelligent and insightful. Spreading Misandry is provocative in the very best sense and will help point the way toward social harmony and away from bickering and fingerpointing." Donna Laframboise, columnist for The National Post and author of The Princess at the Window: A New Gender Morality
"An important book. Nathanson and Young do a good job on introducing the average reader to the positions of various intellectuals as they relate to this moral issue and to moral issues in general." Charles H. Long, emeritus, religious studies, University of California at Santa Barbara
"Spreading Misandry turns the tables on the gender wars. It's not men ganging up on women. It is just the reverse--a long and gradual cultural attack on men. This book is a brilliant and perceptive overstatement, but one that is needed to discover the truth that will heal the rift between the sexes." Don Browning, University of Chicago and co-author of From Culture Wars to Common Ground
"An important book. Nathanson and Young do a good job on introducing the average reader to the positions of various intellectuals as they relate to this moral issue and to moral issues in general." Charles H. Long, emeritus, religious studies, University of California at Santa Barbara
"Spreading Misandry turns the tables on the gender wars. It's not men ganging up on women. It is just the reverse--a long and gradual cultural attack on men. This book is a brilliant and perceptive overstatement, but one that is needed to discover the truth that will heal the rift between the sexes." Don Browning, University of Chicago and co-author of From Culture Wars to Common Ground
Paul Nathanson is a researcher, religious studies, McGill University, and author of Over the Rainbow: The Wizard of Oz as a Secular Myth of America.
Katherine K. Young is James McGill Professor, religious studies, McGill University. She has published extensively on women's issues and ethics.
Katherine K. Young is James McGill Professor, religious studies, McGill University. She has published extensively on women's issues and ethics.
Spreading Misandry
Paul Nathanson and Katherine K. Young
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction: Misandry in Popular Culture
2 Laughing at Men: The Last of Vaudeville
3 Looking Down on Men: Separate but Unequal
4 Bypassing Men: Women Alone Together
5 Blaming Men: A History of Their Own
6 Dehumanizing Men: From Bad Boys to Beasts
7 Demonizing Men: The Devil Is a Man
8 Making the World Safe for Ideology: The Roots of Misandry
9 Conclusion
Appendix 1: Quasi-Misandric Movies
Appendix 2: The Misandric Week on Television
Appendix 3: Misandric Movie Genres
Appendix 4: Populist or Elitist: Talk Shows in the Context of Democracy
Appendix 5: Deconstructionists and Jacques Derrida, Founding Hero
Appendix 6: Film Theory and Ideological Feminism
Appendix 7: Into the Twenty-First Century
Notes
Index
Paul Nathanson and Katherine K. Young
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction: Misandry in Popular Culture
2 Laughing at Men: The Last of Vaudeville
3 Looking Down on Men: Separate but Unequal
4 Bypassing Men: Women Alone Together
5 Blaming Men: A History of Their Own
6 Dehumanizing Men: From Bad Boys to Beasts
7 Demonizing Men: The Devil Is a Man
8 Making the World Safe for Ideology: The Roots of Misandry
9 Conclusion
Appendix 1: Quasi-Misandric Movies
Appendix 2: The Misandric Week on Television
Appendix 3: Misandric Movie Genres
Appendix 4: Populist or Elitist: Talk Shows in the Context of Democracy
Appendix 5: Deconstructionists and Jacques Derrida, Founding Hero
Appendix 6: Film Theory and Ideological Feminism
Appendix 7: Into the Twenty-First Century
Notes
Index
Finalist
Named to the Core 1000 List for 2002
YBP Library Services (2002)
Named to the Core 1000 List for 2002
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