Michael Kimmel

Michael Kimmel
Born	1951
Nationality	American
Occupation	Sociologist
Years active	1987-present
Employer	State University of New York at Stony Brook
Known for	Writings on: gender studies masculinities men and feminism
Spouse	Amy Aronson
Website
http://creativepromotionsagency.com/mk/

Michael Scott Kimmel (born 1951) is an American sociologist, specializing in gender studies. He holds the position of Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in New York and is the editor of Men and Masculinities. Kimmel is a spokesperson of NOMAS (The National Organization For Men Against Sexism)^[1]. He is the husband of Amy Aronson, a Fordham University Professor^{[citation needed]}, and lives in Brooklyn, New York^[2].

Education

Kimmel earned a B.A. with distinction from Vassar College in 1972; an M.A. from Brown University in 1974; and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1981 with a dissertation titled: Absolutism and its Discontents: Fiscal Crisis and Political Opposition in Seventeenth Century France and England.^[3]

Views

Comments regarding "fight clubs"

In an article about a "fight club" in Menlo Park, California, Kimmel remarked that there was a sadomasochistic thread running through them, and said they "are the male version of the girls who cut themselves. [...] All day long these guys think they're the captains of the universe, technical wizards. They're brilliant but empty. [...] They want to feel differently. They want to get hit, they want to feel something real." ^[4]

Reception

While Kimmel is a prominent author in the academic subfield of men's studies^[5], his work has also been critiqued for being "anti-male" or an example of "misandry." Sociologist Anthony Synnott characterized Kimmel's work in Men's Lives and Manhood in America as "particularly misandric" and "dehumanizing" for using a long list of villains as examples of men without a single positive historical image.^[6]

Publications

• Kimmel (1987). Changing Men: New Directions in the Study of Men and Masculinity. Sage. 
• Kimmel (1988). Absolutism and its Discontents: State and Society in 17th Century France and England. Transaction. 
• Kimmel (1990). Revolution: A Sociological Perspective. Temple University Press. 
• Kimmel (1991). Men Confront Pornography. New American Library. 
• Kimmel (1992). Against the Tide: Pro-Feminist Men in the U.S., 1776–1990. Beacon. 
• Kimmel; Michael Messner (1989, 1992, 1995). Men's Lives. Macmillan. 
• Kimmel (1995). The Politics of Manhood. Temple University Press. 
• Kimmel (1996). Manhood in America: A Cultural History. Free Press. 
• Kimmel (2000). The Gendered Society. Oxford University Press. 
• Kimmel; Amy Aronson (2003). Men & Masculinities: A Social, Cultural, and Historical Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. 
• Kimmel; co-editor with Jeff Hearn and Robert Connell (2004). Handbook of Studies on Men and Masculinities. SAGE Publications. ISBN 0-76192-370-5. 
• Kimmel (2005). The Gender of Desire: Essays on Masculinity. Albany: State University of New York Press. 
• Kimmel (2008). Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men. Harper. 
• Kimmel; Amy Aronson (2009). Sociology Now (2nd ed.). Prentice Hall. ISBN 0-20573-199-6. 
• Kimmel; Michael Messner (2010). Men's Lives. Pearson Allyn & Bacon. 

See also

• Pro-feminism
• Masculinities
• Men and feminism
• Misandry

References

1. ^ http://www.nomas.org
2. ^ http://creativepromotionsagency.com/mk/biography.htm
3. ^ Kimmel's Curriculum Vitae
4. ^ Robertson, Jordon. "The first rule of Silicon Valley fight club is...". MSNBC. May 26, 2006. http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13037439/?GT1=8199. Retrieved 21 December 2010. 
5. ^ Wesley Yang (7 September 2008). "Nasty Boys". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/books/review/Yang-t.html. 
6. ^ Anthony Synnott, Ph.D.. (6 October 2010). "Why Some People Have Issues With Men: Misandry". Psychology Today. http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/rethinking-men/201010/why-some-people-have-issues-men-misandry. 

External links

• Official website
• Faculty page for Kimmel
• Transcript of an interview with Kimmel in the PBS documentary No Safe Place: Violence Against Women, which premiered on 27 March 1998.

Articles online

• Gender Equality: Not for Women Only, a lecture prepared for International Women's Day Seminar, European Parliament, Brussels — 8 March 2001
• Gender, Class and Terrorism, The Chronicle of Higher Education, 8 February 2002
• Toward A Pedagogy of the Oppressor, Tikkun, Nov/Dec 2002
• About a Boy, in Vassar, the Alumnae/i Quarterly]], volume 100, issue 1, Winter 2003.
• A Black woman took my job — Kimmel "argues that it is in men’s interest to work for gender equality", New Internationalist 373, 1 November 2004
• Global Masculinities: Restoration and Resistance, article in Gender Policy Review

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