By Peter F. Murphy
This Reader offers a global mix of the simplest vintage foundational items and up to date key works that examine masculinity from a feminist viewpoint. The chapters study a variety of themes together with homosexual liberation, the men's circulate, black and working-class masculinities, homophobia and the net.
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This use of human bodies as objects is legitimate (not harmful) only when it is reciprocal. If one person is always object and the other subject, it stifles the human being in both of them. Objectification must also be open and frank. By silence we often assume or let the other person assume that sex means commitments: if 35 carl wittman it does, OK; but if not, say it. ) Gay liberation people must understand that women have been treated exclusively and dishonestly as sexual objects. A major part of their liberation is to play down sexual objectification and to develop other aspects of themselves that have been smothered so long.
For the American contribution alone, see Michael S. Kimmel and Thomas E. ), Against the Tide: Pro-Feminist Men in the United States 1776–1990: A Documentary History, which includes works by about 120 American men. In addition, the website ‘Sunshine for Women’ has an essay on-line as well as a bibliography that lists another thirty or so names. These sources do not include all of the male historians who have written comprehensive and sympathetic histories of women’s movements or biographies of individual feminist women, and works by feminists translated by men.
More and more, however, women are reacting against the ill effects of being dominated. But the battle of women to be free need not be a battle against men as oppressors. The choice about whether men are the enemy is up to men themselves. Male liberation seeks to aid in destroying the sex-role stereotypes that regard ‘being a man’ and ‘being a woman’ as statuses that must be achieved through proper behavior. People need not take on restrictive roles to establish their sexual identity. A major male sex-role restriction occurs through the acceptance of a stereotypic view of men’s sexual relation to women.