Angry white men : American masculinity at the end of an era / by Michael Kimmel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kimmel, Michael S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Men--United States--Attitudes.

Men.

United States.

White people--United States--Attitudes.

White people.

Masculinity--United States.

Masculinity.

Equality--United States.

Equality.

Civil rights--United States.

Civil rights.

Physical Description:

xviii, 319 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Nation Books, [2013]

Summary:

"One of the enduring images from the 2012 presidential campaign was the demise of the white American male voter as a dominant force in the political landscape. Bellowing white men fill the talk-radio airwaves. Why are they so angry? Michael Kimmel has spent hundreds of hours in the company of these angry white men-from white supremacists to men's rights activists to young students-in pursuit of an answer. Kimmel proposes a theory of aggrieved entitlement: a sense that the benefits to which white men long believed themselves entitled have been snatched from them. Kimmel locates the increase in anger with a growing social, political, and economic gender gap, twinned with an ideology of masculinity that makes America's white men feel empty and alone. Although they have been facing years of underemployment and wage stagnation, mainstream American discourse rarely discuss class issues. So when America's white men feel they've lived their lives the "right" way-worked hard-and still do not get the rewards to which they believe they are entitled, then they have to blame somebody else. Anybody else"-- Provided by publisher.

"Michael Kimmel has spent hundreds of hours in the company of angry white American men--from white supremacists to men's rights activists to young students--to try to determine why they are so angry. Kimmel proposes a theory of aggrieved entitlement: a sense that the benefits to which white men long believed themselves entitled have been snatched from them. Kimmel locates the increase in anger with a growing social, political, and economic gender gap, twinned with an ideology of masculinity that makes America's white men feel empty and alone"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: America the angry

Manufacturing rage: the cultural construction of aggrieved entitlement

Angry white boys

White men as victims: the men's rights movement

Angry white dads

Targeting women

Mad men: the rage(s) of the American working man

The white wing.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781568586960

1568586965

OCLC:

852681950