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• “You can’t handle the truth!”
• “Does the child support program make money? No…”
• Critical Tasks in Transforming Gender Inequality
• Trump’s 2016 Presidential Campaign and Adorno’s Psychological Technique: Content Analyses of Authoritarian Populism
• The New Jim Crow: Mapping the Parallels
• The Antichrist
• The New Forms of Control
• A Colossal Wreck; July 22, 2001
• The Sociological Imagination
• The New Micro-Politics of Child Contact
• Has China Turned to Capitalism?—Reflections on the Transition from Capitalism to Socialism
• The Meaning of Fatherhood
• The Elusive Traditional Family
• “It was really a book about scared men who were afraid of women.”
• Bringing Gender into the Equation of Domestic Violence
• The Way We Wish We Were: Defining the Family Crisis
• Homophobia Is Still Prevalent: Evaluating the Validity of Inclusive Masculinity
• Is the traditional family the foundation of democracy?
• Neither justice nor protection
• Seduction
• One Word Away from Nuclear War
• New Babylon: The Export of Production
• “They just don’t get it.”
• The Missing Feminist Revolution in Sociology: Functionalist Co-optation
• Men are the primary perpetrators
• How the Vietnam War Created America’s Modern “White Power” Movement
• The Soviet Woman — a Full and Equal Citizen of Her Country
• The American Revolution and the revelation of an embarrassing truth
• “Fathers’ Rights” and the Realities of Men’s Family Labor
• 25 Common Dangerous Mistakes Caused by Failing to Use Current [Domestic Violence] Research
• Anarchist Communism
• Revolution and counterrevolution in Afghanistan
• #Notallmen, #Menenism, Manospheres and Unsafe Spaces: Overt and Subtle
• Men’s Health: A Critique of Men’s Rights and Anti-Feminist Claims
• The Monogamous Family
• The Myth of Sexual Symmetry in Marital Violence
• Aspects of Sociology – Ideology
• The Continuing Struggle
• How to Avoid the Kisses of Death in the Graduate School Application Process
• Introduction to New Departures in Marxian Theory
• Wanted: Vulnerable, Debt-Burdened College Students for U.S. Imperialism
• Debunking Hayek’s Road to Serfdom: Economic Planning and “Totalitarianism” (Part 3)
• Individual and Institutional Racism
• “The public is not sovereign over the media . . .”
• A Propaganda Model
• Fake News on Russia and Other Official Enemies: The New York Times, 1917–2017
• Judith Butler on Being Attacked in Brazil
• Emasculated Men Refuse to Do Chores—Except Cooking
• Babies, Blood, and Power
• The Masculinity Problem
• Existentialism and the Origins of Male Supremacy
• Men’s Interests in Contemporary Patriarchy: A Draft Balance Sheet
• Overdoing Gender: A Test of the Masculine Overcompensation Thesis
• The racial dimension of mass incarceration is its most striking feature . . .
• Beyond the Big Names of the Civil Rights Movement
• The Alt-Right: Reactionary Rehabilitation for White Masculinity
• The Strife between Workman and Machine
• The Biggest Myth about our Brains is that they are “Male” or “Female”
• No Excuses for a Racist Murderer
• … the more masculinity asserts itself, the more it calls itself into question.
• Robert K. Merton, “Foreword to a Preface for an Introduction to a Prolegomenon to a Discourse on a Certain Subject
• The Irresponsibility of Guilt
• Men at Bay: The ‘Men’s Movement’ and Its Newest Best-Sellers
• Combatting Toxic Masculinity In Our Schools – Un-Teaching Gender Stereotypes For Boys
• The Language of Gender Violence, Jackson Katz
• Mike Riggs on “Real Men”
• Imposter Syndrome
• Boys and Their Toys
• Teaching Men to Be Emotionally Honest
• Invisible Laws of Capitalism
• Setting Out
• We’ve been labelled ‘anti-sex difference’ for demanding greater scientific rigour
• Faking It
• Visualizing Deviance: The Promiscuous (Heterosexual World of Sport)
• In an ideological world . . .
• Men Talking About Violence. Effects of Violence: Emotional Effects
• Ideology Interpellates Individuals as Subjects
• “One Day I’m Going to be Really Successful”: The Social Class Politics of Videos Made for the “It Gets Better” Anti-Gay Bullying Project
• Orientalism Now: Popular Images and Social Science Representations
• Preface to “Intimate” Violence against Women
• Gloria Steinem, Preface to “Women Respond to the Men’s Movement”
• Social production of moral invisibility
• Bertrand Russell and the Middle East
• The “Shame Cycle”: Addiction and Depression in Covertly Depressed Men
• Batterers, Abandonment, and Love Addiction: Jimmy’s Story
• Philosophical Fragments
• Foucault and the Individual
• Men’s Accounts of Masculinity and Help Seeking
• “the ties that bind are also those that rip people apart”
• “Rebellion”?
• Summary of Don Sabo’s “Masculinities and Men’s Health: Moving Toward Post-Superman Era Prevention”
• Men’s Health Issues: Alcohol Use
• Touch Therapy / Talk Therapy: Intimate Labor and Nurturing Femininity
• Adorno on Critique
• The Hollow Men: Covert Depression and Addictions
• Overcoming Covert Male Depression
• Gender and Shame: “Women’s Language,” “Feelings of Inadequacy,” and Female Subjectivity
• Sartre on “Non-Violence”
• Understanding American Anger
• Marcuse on “Non-Violence”
• Christmas and Subjective Well-Being
• Final Serenity
• Repressive Tolerance: Truth and Falsehood
• Countryside
• The Triad of Men’s Violence: Men’s Violence Against Women
• Mourning a Husband Who Has Not Yet Passed
• On Tolerance
• Sometimes I Cry: The Toxic Hypermasculinity Of Black Men
• Trafficking, Prostitution and Inequality: A Public Lecture by Catharine MacKinnon
• The Future Lasts Forever: Analysis
• The Future Lasts Forever: One Final Word
• For Marcel Proust
• Feminist Masculinity
• Male Battering of Women as Medicating Covert Depression
• Ovid, Metamorphoses
• The Approach-Avoidance Dance, Excerpt from Intimate Strangers: Men and Women Together by Lillian B. Rubin
• Manliness and Violence: From Pierre Bourdieu’s Masculine Domination
• I Love You: Opening Remarks to Intimate Strangers by L. B. Rubin
• The Triad of Men’s Violence: Violence Against Oneself
• The Shooting in Orlando, Terrorism or Toxic Masculinity (or Both?)
• Overcoming Male Depression
• I Don’t Want to Talk About It, Prologue
• Boyhood Troubles
• A Thousand Plateaus, Opening Remarks
• A Stud with the Ladies
• Introduction to “Male Sexualities” by Ken Plummer
• Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power
• Disturbed Populations Stirring
• The Independent Woman
• Producing Physical and Social ‘Unfitness’
• Trying to Like It
• Mastering the Male Body
• The Macho Paradox
• Unmasking Racism: Halloween Costuming and Engagement of the Racial Other
• The Pink Dragon is Female: Halloween Costumes and Gender Markers
• Framing Sexual Violence Prevention: What Does It Mean to Challenge a Rape Culture?
• Why Women More Than Men?
• Bystander Complicity in Guyland
• The Election: Boys Are Watching, But Are Parents Saying Anything Meaningful?
• The Second Shift: Nancy and Evan Holt and the “Upstairs-Downstairs” Myth
• …And Man Created “Woman”: Representations of Women’s Bodies in Western Culture
• Althusser, The State Ideological Apparatuses
• Acting like a Tough Guy: Violent-Sexist Video Games, Identification with Game Characters, Masculine Beliefs, & Empathy for Female Violence Victims
• Sandra Lee Bartky
• Stroking Egos
• Revisiting Feminist Analyses of Men’s Violence
• What Is the Problem?
• Criminology, ‘Crime Prevention’, and Rape
• Ideological Hegemony
• Food, Sexuality, and Desire
• Psyching Out the Female Consumer
• Rape Poem
• “Lone wolf” device
• From Ferguson to France
• Carrying Guns, Contesting Genders
• The Heavy Bear
• Racism Without Racists
• The Advent of Positive Philosophy
• Protesting War and Hegemonic Masculinity in Music Videos: Audioslave’s “Doesn’t Remind Me”
• Heteronormativity in Zombie Films
• Silence in Time
• Art, Immanence, and Critique
• Jessica Jones; Abuse and Consent
• Marxism and the Woman Question
• Teeth
• Hell is other people
• Just Laugh About It?
• “Emotional release” device
• “Feminist Consumerism and Fat Activists: A Comparative Study of Grassroots Activism and the Dove Real Beauty Campaign”
• Men and Women: Mind and Body
• Grundrisse
• Refugee “Crisis”?
• The Placebo Effect
• “Not just ‘a white girl’s thing’: The changing face of food and body image problems”
• “‘Fat! Fat! Big fat butt!’ and so on”
• Consumer Society
• Johnny-Head-in-Air
• Home Alone
• “He Was So Good to Me, I Could Never Call It Abuse”
• Machinery and Modern Industry
• The Chomsky-Foucault Debate
• There’s No Business Like the Body Business: Profiting from Women’s Bodies
• Invitation to dance
• All the Good Stuff that Cannot be Measured
• Patriarchal Internalization and Resistance to, or; ‘Why Isn’t Every Woman a Feminist?’
• Patriarchy and the Panopticon
• Lukacs’ and Capitalist Alienation
• Foucault, Feminism, and Sex Crimes
• The Safe Car You Can’t Buy, Ralph Nader
• Du Bois on Voting
• The Cult of Thinness
• On “Compliments”
• The Linguistics of Color Blind Racism: How to Talk Nasty about Blacks without Sounding Racist
• The New Jim Crow
• The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
• Affirmative Action as Equalizing Opportunity: Challenging the Myth of “Preferential Treatment”
• The Project of Feminist Epistemology
• Understanding Patriarchal Marriage through Female Agency
• What is Sociology?
• What Marriage Means
• Marriage and Defloration
• White Culture: Imperialism and Colonialism
• The Insurgent Sociologist and Critical Sociology
• Compulsory Heterosexuality
• Why the Euro Divides Europe