Misframing Men: The Politics of Contemporary Masculinities

Contents

vii CONTENTS CONTENTS Preface ix Introduction: Misframing Men 1 PART ONE Reframings 1 Has “A Man’s World” Become “A Woman’s Nation”?: Men’s Responses to Women’s Increased Equality in the Twenty-first Century 15 2 The Children’s Hour: Masculine Redemption in Contemporary Film (with Amy Aronson) 38 3 Reconciliation, Appropriation, Inspiration, and Conversation: Four Strategies of Racial Healing among White Men 50 PART TWO Reversals 4 Who Are the Real Male Bashers? 69 5 A War against Boys? 92 6 “Gender Symmetry” in Domestic Violence 99 PART THREE Restorations 7 Profiling School Shooters and Shooters’ Schools: The Cultural Contexts of Aggrieved Entitlement and Restorative Masculinity 131 8 Globalization and Its Mal(e)contents: Masculinity on the Extreme Right 143 9 Promise Keepers: Patriarchy’s Second Coming as Masculine Renewal 163 10 Saving the Males at VMI and Citadel 173 11 Janey Got Her Gun: A VMI Postscript 197 PART FOUR Resistance 12 Who’s Afraid of Men Doing Feminism? 209 13 Profeminist Men: The “Other” Men’s Movement 220 Index 231 CONTENTS viii ...