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

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: New York : Nation Books, [2017]Copyright date: ©2013Edition: Revised paperback editionDescription: xxvi, 314 pages 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781568589619
  • 1568589611
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 155.3320973 23
Contents:
Preface: American masculinity at the end of an era -- 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 -- Epilogue.
Summary: Sociologist Michael Kimmel, one of the leading writers on men and masculinity, has spent hundreds of hours in the company of America's angry white men--from white supremacists to men's rights activists to young students--in pursuit of a comprehensive diagnosis of their fears, anxieties, and rage. Kimmel locates this increase in anger in the seismic economic, social, and political shifts that have transformed the American landscape: Downward mobility, increased racial and gender equality, and tenaciously clinging to an anachronistic ideology of masculinity has left many men feeling betrayed and bewildered. Raised to expect unparalleled social and economic privilege, white men are suffering today from what Kimmel calls "aggrieved entitlement": a sense that those benefits that white men believed were their due have been snatched away from them. The election of Donald Trump proved that angry white men can still change the course of history. Here, Kimmel argues that we must consider the rage of this "forgotten" group and create solutions that address the concerns of all Americans.
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Revised paperback edition published in 2017

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-299) and index.

Preface: American masculinity at the end of an era -- 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 -- Epilogue.

Sociologist Michael Kimmel, one of the leading writers on men and masculinity, has spent hundreds of hours in the company of America's angry white men--from white supremacists to men's rights activists to young students--in pursuit of a comprehensive diagnosis of their fears, anxieties, and rage. Kimmel locates this increase in anger in the seismic economic, social, and political shifts that have transformed the American landscape: Downward mobility, increased racial and gender equality, and tenaciously clinging to an anachronistic ideology of masculinity has left many men feeling betrayed and bewildered. Raised to expect unparalleled social and economic privilege, white men are suffering today from what Kimmel calls "aggrieved entitlement": a sense that those benefits that white men believed were their due have been snatched away from them. The election of Donald Trump proved that angry white men can still change the course of history. Here, Kimmel argues that we must consider the rage of this "forgotten" group and create solutions that address the concerns of all Americans.

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