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Spreading Misandry: The Teaching of Contempt for Men in Popular Culture - Softcover

Paul Nathanson; Katherine Young

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9780773530997: Spreading Misandry: The Teaching of Contempt for Men in Popular Culture
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ISBN 10: 0773530991 ISBN 13: 9780773530997
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006

Synopsis

Paul Nathanson and Katherine Young argue that since the 1990s men have been portrayed in popular culture as evil, inadequate, or honorary women, from Designing Women, Home Improvement, Oprah, and Cape Fear to Hallmark cards, comic strips, and the New York Times columns of Anna Quindlen. The first of a three-part series, Spreading Misandry offers an impressive critique of popular culture to identify a phenomenon that is just now being recognized as a serious cultural problem - misandry, the sexist counterpart of misogyny.

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.

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About the Authors

Paul Nathanson is a researcher in religious studies at McGill University.

Katherine K. Young is James McGill Professor of religious studies at McGill University.

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Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Publication date
2006
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0773530991
ISBN 13 
9780773530997
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
392
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  • 3.94 out of 5 stars
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