List of Figures
Preface: Men Upstream
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: "This is Men's Work"
Chapter 2: Diving in: The Movement Cohort, 1970s to 1980s
Chapter 3: Digging in: The Bridge Cohort, mid-1980s to 1990s
Chapter 4: Plugging in: The Professional Cohort, mid-1990s to
Present
Chapter 5: Earning your Ally Badge: Men, Feminism, and
Accountability
Chapter 6: Conclusion: Men, Feminism, and Social Justice
Appendix 1: List of interviewees with demographic descriptors
Appendix 2: The Author's Moments of Engagement
Notes
List of References
Index
Michael A. Messner is Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at
the University of Southern California.
Max A. Greenberg is a Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology at the
University of Southern California.
Tal Peretz is Lecturer in Sociology at Seattle University.
"In the last four decades or so, there has grown up a diverse
activist community of men who understand that feminism is their
movement, too - not only because they support daughters, wives,
mothers and co-workers, but because they see violence against
females as a normalization of all violence, and a powerful way of
limiting men's full humanity, too. If you want to meet them, learn
more and hope more, you'll find them in the pages of Some Men,
a
practical, readable, inspiring guide to a crucial, growing, yet
rarely reported American movement." -Gloria Steinem
"Some Men is a splendid book. Authors Messner, Greenberg and Peretz
combine moving narrative, careful research, and sharp analysis.
Their book tells in depth the story of those American men who have
worked to end rape, domestic violence, and other forms of men's
violence against women. Tracing the complex relations with changing
feminism, and the intense debates, failures and successes of three
generations of activist men, this is vividly-written
contemporary history from which everyone concerned with gender
justice can learn." -Raewyn Connell, Author of Masculinities and
Confronting Equality
"For more than 40 years, a growing tribe of males has been making
an exodus from the desert of conventional manhood. The remarkable
journeys of a number of them are recounted in this inspiring
chronicle of the profeminist men's movement. Some Men is sure to
stir the hearts of anyone championing a world where men denounce
violence against women and advocate for the liberation of men."
-Rob Okun, Editor of the anthology, VOICE MALE: The Untold
Story
of the Profeminist Men's Movement
"In this moving book, the authors provide insight into the hearts
and minds of men who took seriously the feminist call by making
lifetime commitments as allies in the movement to end violence
against women. A stellar book that is carefully grounded in the
history of the feminist and anti-violence movements, it is a
must-read not only for students and scholars of gender,
masculinity, feminism, and the anti-violence movement, but also for
policy-makers and
activists working toward ending gender-based violence." -Verta
Taylor, Professor Sociology and Feminist Studies, University of
California Santa Barbara
"Sociologists Messner, Greenberg, and Peretz help readers
understand the efforts of some men to support the feminist movement
to end violence against women. Their book is well crafted,
carefully theorized, and empirically rooted in interviews with a
diverse group of 52 men and 11 women deeply involved in the
anti-violence organizing in the US. Highly recommended."
-Choice
"By delving deeply into the history of men's activism to end
gendered violence, Messner, Greenberg, and Peretz advance the
scholarly understanding of social movement dynamics generally, the
broader feminist antiviolence movement, and the unique
contributions of profeminist men to what was once considered a
women's cause."-Maria Bevacqua, Minnesota State University,
Mankato
"Some Men fills major gaps in multiple fields. Perhaps of most
interest to readers of Men & Masculinities¸the book provides the
fullest historical perspective to date on the rapidly shifting role
of men in the movement to end violence against women and
contributes to ongoing conversations about contentions and
contradictions in that work."-Cliff Leek, Stony Brook
University
"The most impressive elements of this book are the historical and
feminist activist contextualization. In each chapter, we learn not
only what Messner, Greenberg, and Peretz discovered in their
interviews, but also about how the historical contexts in which the
engagements were occurring shaped that engagement."-Tristan
Bridges, Journal Contemporary Sociology
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