Michael S Kimmel
Biographic Data
| ID | 91178 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael S Kimmel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael S |
| FAMILY NAME | Kimmel |
| SIGNATURE | KIMMEL M S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stony Brook University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 109 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1017 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 107 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Is ‘Jewish Masculinity’ an Oxymoron
“Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”
The trajectory of the French Revolution was a constant fracturing and splintering into factions after the Regicide. Among the many groups who were mobilized during the Reign of Terror were the sans-culottes, the urban common people, who attempted to revolutionize daily life in France. Before they, too, devolved into a murderous mob, the sans-culottes were perhaps the only group that believed in all three of the elements of the motto of the Revolu…
Privilege: A Reader
"Privilege is about more than being white, wealthy, and male?as Michael Kimmel, Abby Ferber, and a range of contributors make clear in this timely anthology. In an era when?diversity? is too often shorthand for?of color? and/or?female,? the personal and analytical essays in this collection explore the multifaceted nature of social location and consider how gender, class, race, sexual orientation, (dis)ability, and religion interact to create nuan…
Toward a Sociology of the Superordinate
To run or walk into a strong headwind is to understand the power of nature. You set your jaw in a squared grimace, your eyes are slits against the wind, and you breathe with a fierce determination. And still you make so little progress
Healing from Hate: How Young Men Get Into—and Out of—Violent Extremism
"Examine the role of gender in the radicalization of young men as they enter and exit extremist movements"...Provided by publisher
Thoughts on the Workplace as a Masculinity Contest
We consider how the research featured in this special issue reveals the deeply emotional nature of men's gender‐identity constructions at work: men qua men feeling threatened and insecure and thus compelled to prove their manliness in survival‐of‐the‐fittest competitions. These papers locate this behavior not in individual bad actors nor in men's supposed biological drives, but rather in the organizational norms and practices that foster masculin…
Ask a Feminist: Michael Kimmel and Lisa Wade Discuss Toxic Masculinity
For this edition of Ask a Feminist, Michael Kimmel and Lisa Wade discuss the role of masculinity in the current political moment, including the rise of Donald Trump and white grievance politics in the United States. A preeminent scholar of masculinity studies, Kimmel analyzes masculinity’s intersections with racism, sexual violence, and backlash politics. Wade, whose work has critically and accessibly interrogated contemporary gender dynamics, sp…
Masculinities/Men's Studies
Men's studies, also commonly referred to as masculinity studies or critical studies of men and masculinity, is an interdisciplinary field, under the broader auspices of gender studies, which is concerned with the social, historical, cultural, and psychological construction of masculinities.
Privilege: A Reader
Privilege is about more than being white, wealthy, and male-as Michael Kimmel, Abby Ferber, and a range of contributors make clear in this timely anthology. In an era when "diversity" is too often shorthand for "of color" and/or "female, " the personal and analytical essays in this collection explore the multifaceted nature of social location and consider how gender, class, race, sexual orientation, (dis)ability, and religion interact to create n…
Styling Masculinity: Gender, Class, and Inequality in the Men's Grooming Industry
Harry Brod, 1951-2017
Something is Working—But Why? Mixed Rooms in the Norwegian Army
In a qualitative study of masculinities in the Norwegian Armed Forces, we found the expected sexual harassment and some more unexpected episodes of what we name solidarity masculinity. But we also uncovered some possible and surprisingly positive effects of male and female conscripts living together in so-called mixed rooms. The rooms seemed to function in a way that promoted mutual understanding, de-sexualization and reduced sexual harassment. O…
Gendered Society Reader
Masculinity, Scripts of
Men who love women: Pro-feminist masculinities in the Millennium trilogy
The Gendered Society
Seeing Privilege Where It Isn't: Marginalized Masculinities and the Intersectionality of Privilege
When discussing privilege, we often consider it a zero-sum quantity, one either has it or one does not. Since privilege is distributed along a range of axes, we consider three sites in which male privilege is compromised by marginalization by other statuses: disability status, sexuality, and class. Employing a Symbolic Interactionist approach, derived from Erving Goffman's Stigma (1963) , we observe strategies employed by disabled men, gay men an…
Homosexuality, Gender Nonconformity, and the Neoliberal State
In principle, the neoliberal state is a less regulatory state with regards to private life: neoliberalism lets the market decide what sorts of arrangements are best for the rational individuals who
The gendered society reader
Hooking Up: Hot Hetero Sex or the New Numb Normative
Hooking up, or sexual activity outside of a committed relationship, has become the normative form of intimacy on American college campuses. Much research has focused on the extent of hooking up, and its effects. We situate hook-ups within the institution of heterosexuality, arguing that it is deeply gendered. Hooking up becomes a mode of homosocial communication, as well as a way for young adults to prove their heterosexuality. Others have pointe…
Misframing Men: The Politics of Contemporary Masculinities
This past decade has witnessed an extraordinary transformation in men's lives. For years, wave after wave of the women's movement, a movement that reshaped every aspect of American life, produced nary a ripple among men. But suddenly men are in the spotlight. Yet, the public discussions often seem strained, silly, and sometimes flat-out wrong. The spotlight itself seems to obscure as much as it illuminates. Old tired cliches about men's resistanc…
Men's lives
The Moderating Effects of Support for Violence Beliefs on Masculine Norms, Aggression, and Homophobic Behavior During Adolescence: Masculine Norms and Aggression
In 2 studies, beliefs supporting the use of violence moderated the association between normative masculine activities and aggressive behavior (Study 1) and normative masculine attitudes and aggressive and homophobic behavior (Study 2) among adolescent boys. These beliefs also moderated the association between normative masculine activities and homophobic behavior among adolescent girls. Consistent with social information processing models, belief…
Suicide by mass murder: Masculinity, aggrieved entitlement, and rampage school shootings
School shootings have become more common in the United States in recent years. Yet, as media portrayals of these ‘rampages’ shock the public, the characterisation of this violence obscures an important point: many of these crimes culminate in suicide, and they are almost universally committed by males. We examine three recent American cases, which involve suicide, to elucidate how the culture of hegemonic masculinity in the US creates a sense of …
The Gendered Face of Terrorism
What does sociology have to contribute to our understanding of terrorism? As scholars of gender and the Far Right, we believe that we have much to offer the current debates. In this article, we focus both on contemporary cases of terrorism, the attacks of September 11 and the Oklahoma City bombing, and terrorist movements as gendered: as enactments of masculinity. In particular, we focus on the contemporary white supremacist movement, the most da…
Changing men: New Directions in Research on Men and Masculinity
Adolescent Masculinity, Homophobia, and Violence: Random School Shootings, 1982-2001
Since 1982, there have been 28 cases of random school shootings in American high schools and middle schools. The authors find (a) that the shootings were not a national problem but a series of local problems that occurred in "red states" or counties (places that voted Republican in the 2000 election); (b) that most of the boys who opened fire were mercilessly and routinely teased and bullied and that their violence was retaliatory against the thr…
Seeing Privilege Where It Isn't: Marginalized Masculinities and the Intersectionality of Privilege
When discussing privilege, we often consider it a zero-sum quantity, one either has it or one does not. Since privilege is distributed along a range of axes, we consider three sites in which male privilege is compromised by marginalization by other statuses: disability status, sexuality, and class. Employing a Symbolic Interactionist approach, derived from Erving Goffman's Stigma (1963) , we observe strategies employed by disabled men, gay men an…
Gender Symmetry” in Domestic Violence: A Substantive and Methodological Research Review
Despite numerous studies that report the preponderance of domestic violence is perpetrated by men against women, other empirical studies suggest that rates of domestic violence by women and men are equivalent. This article explores these claims of gender symmetry in intimate partners'use of violence by reviewing the empirical foundations of the research and critiquing existing sources of data on domestic violence. The author suggests methods to r…
A produção simultânea de masculinidades hegemônicas e subalternas
Meu ponto de partida é o argumento de Andre Gunder Frank, que, em seus estudos clássicos sobre América Latina, apontou que o desenvolvimento e o subdesenvolvimento não eram estágios pelos quais todos os países passavam, mas que havia uma relação entre o desenvolvimento e o subdesenvolvimento, em que o desenvolvimento de alguns países implicava o subdesenvolvimento deliberado e específico de outros. Neste sentido, a criação da metrópole implicava …
White Men Are This Nation: Right-Wing Militias and the Restoration of Rural American Masculinity
The appearance of right-wing militias was a much-discussed phenomenon during the past decade. Commentators rightly pointed out their rural origins, their lower-middle-class and middle-class composition, and their ideology rooted in racism, sexism, anti-Semitism, and homophobia, but few, if any, have commented on the most salient aspect of all: that these are movements of men, who use narratives about masculinity as an analytic prism through which…
Sexual violence in three pornographic media: Toward a sociological explanation
This study measures the sexually violent content in magazine, video, and Usenet (Internet newsgroup) pornography. Specifically, the level of violence, the amount of consensual and nonconsensual violence, and the gender of both victim and victimizer are compared. A consistent increase in the amount of violence from one medium to the next is found, although the increase between magazines and videos is not statistically significant. Further, both ma…
Changing Men: New Directions in Research on Men and Masculinity
Rethinking 'Masculinity' - Michael S Kimmel New Directions in Research PART ONE: REFORMULATING THE MALE ROLE The Structure of Male Role Norms - Edward Thompson and Joseph Pleck The Embodiment of Masculinity - Mark Mishkind et al Cultural, Psychological, and Behavioral Dimensions The Life of a Man's Seasons - Michael Messner Male Identity in the Lifecourse of the Jock On Heterosexual Masculinity - Gregory M Herek Some Psychical Consequences of the…
Hooking Up: Hot Hetero Sex or the New Numb Normative
Hooking up, or sexual activity outside of a committed relationship, has become the normative form of intimacy on American college campuses. Much research has focused on the extent of hooking up, and its effects. We situate hook-ups within the institution of heterosexuality, arguing that it is deeply gendered. Hooking up becomes a mode of homosocial communication, as well as a way for young adults to prove their heterosexuality. Others have pointe…
Suicide by mass murder: Masculinity, aggrieved entitlement, and rampage school shootings
School shootings have become more common in the United States in recent years. Yet, as media portrayals of these ‘rampages’ shock the public, the characterisation of this violence obscures an important point: many of these crimes culminate in suicide, and they are almost universally committed by males. We examine three recent American cases, which involve suicide, to elucidate how the culture of hegemonic masculinity in the US creates a sense of …
The Moderating Effects of Support for Violence Beliefs on Masculine Norms, Aggression, and Homophobic Behavior During Adolescence: Masculine Norms and Aggression
In 2 studies, beliefs supporting the use of violence moderated the association between normative masculine activities and aggressive behavior (Study 1) and normative masculine attitudes and aggressive and homophobic behavior (Study 2) among adolescent boys. These beliefs also moderated the association between normative masculine activities and homophobic behavior among adolescent girls. Consistent with social information processing models, belief…
Men's Responses to Feminism at the Turn of the Century
This article examines the variety of men's responses to feminism in late nineteenthand early twentieth-century United States through texts that addressed the claims raised by the turn-of-the-century women's movements. Antifeminist texts relied on traditional arguments, as well as Social Darwinist and natural law notions, to reassert the patriarchal family and to oppose women's suffrage and participation in the public sphere. Masculinist texts sou…
Misframing Men: The Politics of Contemporary Masculinities
This past decade has witnessed an extraordinary transformation in men's lives. For years, wave after wave of the women's movement, a movement that reshaped every aspect of American life, produced nary a ripple among men. But suddenly men are in the spotlight. Yet, the public discussions often seem strained, silly, and sometimes flat-out wrong. The spotlight itself seems to obscure as much as it illuminates. Old tired cliches about men's resistanc…
Invisible masculinity
Racism as Adolescent Male Rite of Passage: Ex-Nazis in Scandinavia
In-depth interviews with ex-neo-Nazis in Scandinavia reveal a profile of the extreme right that is both strikingly similar to and significantly different from the profile of their counterparts in the United States. Drawn from clients at EXIT, a state-funded organization based in Sweden, these interviews reveal that the extreme right draws adherents from a declining lower middle class background, small towns, and metropolitan suburbs, and from div…
Saving the Males: The Sociological Implications of the Virginia Military Institute and the Citadel
Homosexuality, Gender Nonconformity, and the Neoliberal State
In principle, the neoliberal state is a less regulatory state with regards to private life: neoliberalism lets the market decide what sorts of arrangements are best for the rational individuals who
Globalization and its Mal(e)Contents: The Gendered Moral and Political Economy of Terrorism
Globalization changes masculinities - reshaping the arena in which national and local masculinities are articulated, and transforming the shape of men's lives. Gender becomes one of the chief organizing principles of local, regional and national resistance to globalization, whether expressed in religious or secular, ethnic or national terms. This article examines the ways in which masculinities and globalization are embedded in the emergence of e…
From Conscience and Common Sense to “Feminism for Men” Pro‐feminist Men's Rhetorics of Support for Women's Equality
Since the late eighteenth century, American men have supported women's equality. (see Kimmel and Mosmiller, 1992). Even before the first Woman's Rights Convention at Seneca Falls, New York heralded the birth of the organized women's movement in 1848, American men had begun to argue in favor of women's rights. That celebrated radical, Thomas Paine, for example, mused in 1775 that any formal declaration of independence from England should include w…
The new men’s movement: Retreat and regression with America’s weekend warriors
Revolution: A Sociological Interpretation
Styling Masculinity: Gender, Class, and Inequality in the Men's Grooming Industry
The Gendered Face of Terrorism
What does sociology have to contribute to our understanding of terrorism? As scholars of gender and the Far Right, we believe that we have much to offer the current debates. In this article, we focus both on contemporary cases of terrorism, the attacks of September 11 and the Oklahoma City bombing, and terrorist movements as gendered: as enactments of masculinity. In particular, we focus on the contemporary white supremacist movement, the most da…
Reading Right: The Western Tradition in White Supremacist Discourse
Our paper explores the white supremacist movement's reliance upon the western genre to construct white masculinity. We argue that white supremacist discourse rearticulates both the narrative form and content of the classic western. We first examine the formal and substantive themes of the classic western, and then analyze the publications of a wide variety of contemporary white supremacist organizations, including Klan, neo-Nazi, and Christian Id…
States and Revolutions: The Implications and Limits of Skocpol's Structural ModelStates and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China.Theda Skocpol
Tales of Power.Carlos Casteneda
Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life
The Rise of the Western World: A New Economic History
A radically new interpretation, offering a unified explanation for the growth of Western Europe between 900 A. D. and 1700, provides a general theoretical framework for institutional change geared to the general reader. North and Thomas seek to explain the rise of the Western world by illuminating the causal importance of an efficient economic organization that guarantees a wide latitude of property rights and both incentives and protection for e…
The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism.Rodney Hilton
The Peasants of Languedoc.Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, John Day
Social Formations and Power Structures in Latin America: A Reply
Milton and the English Revolution
The Wayward Gate: Science and the Supernatural.Philip Slater
Carnival in Romans. Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Mary Feeney The Territory of the Historian. Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Ben Reynolds , Sian Reynolds
The Institutions of France Under the Absolute Monarchy, 1598-1789
Printed Propaganda Under Louis XIV: Absolute Monarchy and Public Opinion
Elites in French Society: The Politics of Survival
Why do some elites survive while others do not? How do certain institutions manage to preserve their importance in the face of crises, instability, and change? How does a democratic society legitimize elitist institutions? Combining the use of important social theories--particularly those of Mosca, Schumpeter, Tocqueville, and Pareto--with empirical analysis, Ezra Suleiman tries to answer these questions in his examination of the dominance and st…
States and Revolutions: The Implications and Limits of Skocpol's Structural ModelStates and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China.Theda Skocpol
Violence, Conflict, and Politics in Colombia
Outbreaks: The Sociology of Collective Behavior
Art Worlds. Howard S. Becker
Books in review
Marxism and Domination: A Neo-Hegelian, Feminist, Psychoanalytic Theory of Sexual, Political, and Technological Liberation
The Description for this book, Marxism and Domination: A Neo-Hegelian, Feminist, Psychoanalytic Theory of Sexual, Political, and Technological Liberation, will be forthcoming
Reluctant Rebels: Comparative Studies of Revolution and Underdevelopment
John Walton. Reluctant Rebels: Comparative Studies of Revolution and Underdevelopment. New York: Columbia University Press. 230 pages. $27.50 cloth; $10.00 paper
Europe and the People without History. Eric R. Wolf
The Institutions of France under the Absolute Monarchy, 1598-1789, Vol. II: The Organs of State and Society
Wallington's World: A Puritan Artisan in Seventeenth-Century London
Experience and Enlightenment: Socialization for Cultural Change in Eighteenth-Century Scotland
Changing men: New Directions in Research on Men and Masculinity
Books in review
Sociology (75 works) · Political science (55 works) · Law (42 works) · Gender Studies (38 works) · Psychology (31 works) · Law (29 works) · Masculinity (26 works) · Politics (25 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (21 works) · Gender Studies (20 works)