Does Manning Men's Studies Emasculate Women's Studies?

Hypatia ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry Brod
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Women's Studies ◽  
Institutional Autonomy ◽  
Men's Studies ◽  
Women’S Studies ◽  
Feminist Study ◽  
Men’S Studies

Defends “The New Men's Studies: From Feminist Theory to Gender Scholarship” (Hypatia 2:1, Winter 1987) against what is argued are Mary Libertin's misreadings. The argument for men's studies is logically independent of though related to the debate about essentialism in women's studies. Men's studies studies men in and as particular groups. Intellectual should not be equated with institutional autonomy. The feminist study of men should be supported by feminist scholars.

The Politics of Women's Studies and Men's Studies

Hypatia ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Libertin
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Women's Studies ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Men's Studies ◽  
Women’S Studies ◽  
Men’S Studies ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Male Feminist

This paper is a response to the problematic relation between men's studies and women's studies; it is also a particular response to Harry Brod's discussion of the theoretical need for men's studies programs in his article “The New Men's Studies: From Feminist Theory to Gender Scholarship.” The paper argues that a male feminist would be more effective in a women's studies program, that the latter already includes research about the experiences of both males and females. Although future research on both genders is needed, the paper argues that there does not currently exist a gap in theory or in practice in women's studies programs, as Brod claims. The paper argues in favor of both men and women working together to strengthen and broaden women's studies programs in existence and encourages the creation of more programs and more study of gender issues.

The New Men's Studies: From Feminist Theory to Gender Scholarship

Hypatia ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 179-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry Brod
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Women's Studies ◽  
Sex Roles ◽  
Men's Studies ◽  
Women’S Studies ◽  
Men’S Studies ◽  
Empirical Social Science

The paper situates the new field of men's studies in the context of the evolution of women's studies. It argues that men's studies’ distinctive feminist approach to men is a necessary complement to women's studies, citing paradigmatic examples of new perspectives. In tracing women's studies’ development, the paper argues that reconceptualizations of “gender” resolve tensions between much of women's studies’ non-essentialist empirical social science describing “sex roles” and much of feminist theory's essentialist celebrations of women's core selves.

scholarly journals Reading Raewyn

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-134
Author(s):  
Sara Delamont
Keyword(s):  
Women's Studies ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Men's Studies ◽  
Women’S Studies ◽  
Good Place ◽  
Men’S Studies ◽  
Twentieth Anniversary ◽  
And Gender

It has been 20 years since Raewyn Connell published The Men and the Boys (2000a), which can be seen as the foundational text of boyhood studies. This journal is a good place to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of that book, and there are two special issues coming in the winter of 2020 and spring of 2021. Connell’s work has been part of my academic thinking about education and gender for 47 years. I have chosen to situate my appreciation for The Men and the Boys in the context of that 47-year time frame. The Men and the Boys, which we are celebrating in the next issue of Boyhood Studies, came late in my engagement with Connell’s work. It is important to understand that Connell’s work has spanned three scholarly developments: the rise of women’s studies, men’s studies, and boyhood studies.

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