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Dilemmas of Masculinity Mirra Komarovsky

Dilemmas of Masculinity By Mirra Komarovsky

Dilemmas of Masculinity by Mirra Komarovsky


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Examines the impact on masculinity of the women's movement. This book is informed by research carried out during 1969-1970. It offers insight into the early impact of the women's movement on college-aged men.

Dilemmas of Masculinity Summary

Dilemmas of Masculinity: A Study of College Youth by Mirra Komarovsky

In Dilemmas of Masculinity, noted sociologist Mirra Komarovsky turns her attention to the consequences of feminism among women on the lives of men. As she'd documented in Women in the Modern World, and would again in Women in College, women's lives had changed enormously in the thirty-plus years Komarovsky taught at Barnard College. Women now are able to own their intelligence without apology, and most of the women had career aspirations that were equal to the men across the street at Columbia. In fieldwork conducted with Columbia College seniors in 1969-1970, she continually found that women's newly claimed freedoms, however, sat uneasily on men who had been raised in traditional homes. On the one hand, they respected women's intellectual achievements and even welcomed women's career aspirations. The campus ethos 'demanded that men pay at least lip service to liberal attitudes towards working wives,' Komarovsky wrote in an article based on the research. On the other hand, they didn't want to sacrifice any of the privileges they had been taught to expect - that their wives would do virtually all the child care and housework. As a result, the men were utterly unprepared for the new world of gender equality that women were beginning to demand.

About Mirra Komarovsky

Mirra Komarovsky was Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Barnard College and Past-President of the American Sociological Association. Michael S. Kimmel teaches at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

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NLS9780759107304
9780759107304
0759107300
Dilemmas of Masculinity: A Study of College Youth by Mirra Komarovsky
New
Paperback
AltaMira Press,U.S.
2004-10-21
302
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