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Michael Kimmel to Discuss "Mars and Venus or Planet Earth" April 17
Michael Kimmel, one of the world's leading researchers and writers on men and masculinity, will discuss "Mars and Venus or Planet Earth: Women and Men in a New Millennium" on Thursday, April 17 at 4:30 p.m. in the Bonchek Lecture Hall, Barshinger Life Sciences and Philosophy Building.
The talk, the annual North Lecture, is sponsored by the Center for Liberal Arts and Society, the American Studies Department, Women and Gender Studies, and MBT House, and is free and open to the public.
Kimmel is author or editor of more than 20 volumes, his books include: Changing Men: New Directions in Research on Men and Masculinity (1987), Men Confront Pornography (1990), The Politics of Manhood (1996), The Gender of Desire (2005) and The History of Men (2005). His documentary history, Against the Tide: Pro-Feminist Men in the United States, 1776-1990 (Beacon, 1992), chronicled men who supported women's equality since the founding of the country.
His book, Manhood in America: A Cultural History (1996) was hailed as the definitive work on the subject. The book received impressive reviews in The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post Book World and The New York Times Book Review, which noted that this "concise, incisive" book "elucidates the masculine ideals of the past 200 years...just as shelves of feminist books have elucidated the feminine." He also co-edited The Encyclopedia on Men and Masculinities (2 volumes, 2004) and The Handbook of Studies on Men and Masculinities. The Encyclopedia was named "best of Reference" by the New York Public Librarians Association in 2004.
He has just completed his newest book, Guyland: The Inner Lives of Young Men, 18-26 that will be published next year by HarperCollins.
Kimmel is also a well-known educator concerning gender issues. A professor of sociology at SUNY at Stony Brook, he teaches, among other courses, Sociology of Masculinity, one of the few courses in the nation that examines men's lives from a pro-feminist perspective. His teaching has been featured in newspaper and magazine articles and television shows, and numerous radio shows. His co-edited college textbook, Men's Lives (7th edition, 2007) has been adopted in virtually every course on men and masculinity in the country. Kimmel's book, The Gendered Society (3rd edition, 2007) and its companion volume of readings, has become one of the nation's best-selling texts in social science courses in gender studies
His written work has appeared in dozens of magazines, newspapers and scholarly journals, and he has served as an expert witness for the U.S. Department of Justice in the VMI and Citadel cases.
Kimmel is national spokesperson for the National Organization for Men Against Sexism (NOMAS), and has lectured at more than 200 colleges and universities, and run workshops for organizations and public sector organizations on preventing sexual harassment and implementing gender equity, and for campus groups on date and acquaintance rape, sexual assault, pornography, and the changing relations between women and men.
The North Lecture is named for the late Hugh M. North Jr., a prominent Lancaster attorney and financier, who died in 1929. His will provided a bequest to Franklin & Marshall "to be used in providing for lectures in law or allied subjects, to the students of Franklin & Marshall College, under the direction of the trustees."
The talk, the annual North Lecture, is sponsored by the Center for Liberal Arts and Society, the American Studies Department, Women and Gender Studies, and MBT House, and is free and open to the public.
Kimmel is author or editor of more than 20 volumes, his books include: Changing Men: New Directions in Research on Men and Masculinity (1987), Men Confront Pornography (1990), The Politics of Manhood (1996), The Gender of Desire (2005) and The History of Men (2005). His documentary history, Against the Tide: Pro-Feminist Men in the United States, 1776-1990 (Beacon, 1992), chronicled men who supported women's equality since the founding of the country.
His book, Manhood in America: A Cultural History (1996) was hailed as the definitive work on the subject. The book received impressive reviews in The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post Book World and The New York Times Book Review, which noted that this "concise, incisive" book "elucidates the masculine ideals of the past 200 years...just as shelves of feminist books have elucidated the feminine." He also co-edited The Encyclopedia on Men and Masculinities (2 volumes, 2004) and The Handbook of Studies on Men and Masculinities. The Encyclopedia was named "best of Reference" by the New York Public Librarians Association in 2004.
He has just completed his newest book, Guyland: The Inner Lives of Young Men, 18-26 that will be published next year by HarperCollins.
Kimmel is also a well-known educator concerning gender issues. A professor of sociology at SUNY at Stony Brook, he teaches, among other courses, Sociology of Masculinity, one of the few courses in the nation that examines men's lives from a pro-feminist perspective. His teaching has been featured in newspaper and magazine articles and television shows, and numerous radio shows. His co-edited college textbook, Men's Lives (7th edition, 2007) has been adopted in virtually every course on men and masculinity in the country. Kimmel's book, The Gendered Society (3rd edition, 2007) and its companion volume of readings, has become one of the nation's best-selling texts in social science courses in gender studies
His written work has appeared in dozens of magazines, newspapers and scholarly journals, and he has served as an expert witness for the U.S. Department of Justice in the VMI and Citadel cases.
Kimmel is national spokesperson for the National Organization for Men Against Sexism (NOMAS), and has lectured at more than 200 colleges and universities, and run workshops for organizations and public sector organizations on preventing sexual harassment and implementing gender equity, and for campus groups on date and acquaintance rape, sexual assault, pornography, and the changing relations between women and men.
The North Lecture is named for the late Hugh M. North Jr., a prominent Lancaster attorney and financier, who died in 1929. His will provided a bequest to Franklin & Marshall "to be used in providing for lectures in law or allied subjects, to the students of Franklin & Marshall College, under the direction of the trustees."
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