Spreading misandry : the teaching of contempt for men in popular culture / Paul Nathanson and Katherine K. Young.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nathanson, Paul, 1947-

Contributor:

Young, Katherine K., 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Misandry--Canada.

Misandry.

Misandry--United States.

Men in popular culture--Canada.

Men in popular culture.

Men in popular culture--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (386 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Nathanson and Young urge us to rethink prevalent assumptions about men that result in profoundly disturbing stereotypes that foster contempt. Spreading Misandry breaks new ground by discussing misandry in moral terms rather than purely psychological or sociological ones and by criticizing not only ideological feminism but other ideologies on both the left and the right.

Contents:

Introduction: misandry in popular culture

Laughing at men: the last of Vaudeville

Looking down on men: separate but unequal

Bypassing men: women alone together

Blaming men: a history of their own

Dehumanizing men: from bad boys to beasts

Demonizing men: the devil is a man

Making the world safe for ideology: the roots of misandry

Conclusion

Appendix 1: quasi-misandric movies

Appendix 2: the misandric week on television

Appendix 3: misandric movie genres - Appendix 4: populist or elitist: talk shows in the context of democracy

Appendix 5: deconstructionists and Jacques Derrida, founding hero

Appendix 6: film theory and ideological feminism

Appendix 7: into the twenty-first century.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-94520-3

9786612945205

0-7735-6969-3

OCLC:

180773108