"The Guy's Guide to Feminism" An entertaining lecture by Michael Kimmel
Channel: Ilkamy
Date: 2013-01-25

Feminism and Gender Democracy - *Enjoy the amusing speech and book launch by Ph.D. Michael Kimmel (Stony Brook University New York, USA) at "Gunda Werner Institute" in Berlin, 12 Sep 2012. Renowned American sociologist, researcher on men and masculinity, author and self-proclaimed feminist, Michael Kimmel, together with his co-author, Michael Kaufmann, seek to find answers to this, for some, provocative question.

*Feminism has a good sense of humour!
Written tongue in cheek and entertainingly, Michael's short stories and instructions in "Guy's Guide to Feminism" - garnished with jokes and comics - illustrates why feminism not only brightens up the lives of women but is also beneficial to men.
He clears up a number of male myths, e.g. that of man-hating feminists or that biology is the main cause of differences and inequality between men and women. In the book "Guy's Guide to Feminism", Michael Kimmel and his colleague, Michael Kaufman, seek to convince men that feminism is a worthy cause. Standing up for gender equality is equally life-enriching on so many other levels.

Even though women are allowed to vote in many countries across the globe, attend university and open a bank account, the final gender battle is still far from being fought. 

A guidebook with entertainment value
Kimmel's and Kaufman's pro-feminist guidebook is a highly entertaining work garnished with short stories, jokes and comics. Catchwords such as jobs or emotions are dealt with alphabetically. Served up in easily digestible morsels, the book covers the various stages of the feminist struggle and provides data on the current state of gender equality and even on issues such as genital mutilation and honour killings.
American sociologist Michael Kimmel is a professor at Stony Brook University in New York and editor of the International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities. He is a long-time researcher on men and masculinity as well as gender relations.
http://guysguidetofeminism.com

SUMMARY OF THE FINAL WORDS, which were cut off.
Women have identified issue by issue, so if you disaggregate this... if you ask women today; do you support this and this, the feminist "top ten policy" initiatives, they would agree with all of them, but if you ask them are you a feminist, they would say NO. They would say, I like make-up, I like men... all the stereotypes about what feminism means becomes pervasive. 
The same thing is true for men of college age... most of them would agree with feminist policy issues as well.
So it's not about the policies -- it's about personal lives, it's about claiming a name without the fact that it's an umbrella for all of those different ideas and policies!
The book tries to explain that feminism is understandable, not complex and difficult, and it's not a Mars/Venus issue but an earthling's issue that we need, to make our lives better!

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