Michael Kimmel
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Michael Kimmel's Degrees
- PhD Sociology University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Sociology University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors Psychology Vassar College
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Michael Scott Kimmel is an American retired sociologist specializing in gender studies. He was Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Stony Brook University in New York and is the founder and editor of the academic journal Men and Masculinities. Kimmel is a spokesman of the National Organization for Men Against Sexism and a longtime feminist. In 2013, he founded the at Stony Brook University, where he is Executive Director. In 2018 he was publicly accused of sexual harassment. He filed for retirement while Title IX charges were pending; no charges were subsequently filed.
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- Masculinity as homophobia: Fear, shame and silence in the construction of gender identity. (1997) (1549)
- Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World. By Jack A. Goldstone. University of California Press, 1991. 632 pp. $34.95 (1991) (733)
- The gendered society (2000) (542)
- “Gender Symmetry” in Domestic Violence (2002) (513)
- Adolescent Masculinity, Homophobia, and Violence (2003) (464)
- Changing men : new directions in research on men and masculinity (1988) (443)
- Handbook of studies on men & masculinities (2005) (375)
- Gay Macho: The Life and Death of the Homosexual Clone (1998) (206)
- Milton and the English Revolution. (1977) (191)
- Seeing Privilege Where It Isn’t: Marginalized Masculinities and the Intersectionality of Privilege (2012) (185)
- Suicide by mass murder: Masculinity, aggrieved entitlement, and rampage school shootings (2010) (153)
- Men and masculinities : a social, cultural, and historical encyclopedia (2004) (138)
- Rethinking "masculinity": New directions in research. (1987) (130)
- Sexual violence in three pornographic media: Toward a sociological explanation (2000) (126)
- MEN'S RESPONSES TO FEMINISM AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY (1987) (125)
- Slavery's Bloody, Embodied Legacy@@@Rituals of Blood: Consequences of Slavery in Two American Centuries (2000) (122)
- A War Against Boys? (2011) (117)
- The Gender of Desire: Essays on Male Sexuality (2005) (115)
- Why we mix metaphors (and mix them well): Discourse coherence, conceptual metaphor, and beyond (2010) (115)
- Globalization and its Mal(e)Contents (2003) (112)
- "White men are this nation:" right-wing militias and the restoration of rural American masculinity. (2009) (112)
- The Gendered Society Reader (2010) (112)
- Weekend Warriors: The New Men's Movement (1994) (109)
- Men masculinities and development: broadening our work towards gender equality. (2000) (103)
- The politics of manhood : profeminist men respond to the mythopoetic men's movement (and the mythopoetic leaders answer) (1995) (90)
- The Moderating Effects of Support for Violence Beliefs on Masculine Norms, Aggression, and Homophobic Behavior During Adolescence (2011) (89)
- Wallington's World: A Puritan Artisan in Seventeenth-Century London. (1986) (87)
- The history of men : essays in the history of American and British masculinities (2005) (87)
- Revolutions: Theoretical, Comparative, and Historical Studies. (1987) (86)
- Misframing Men: The Politics of Contemporary Masculinities (2010) (86)
- HOOKING UP (2011) (75)
- Racism as Adolescent Male Rite of Passage (2007) (74)
- Healing from Hate: How Young Men Get Into—and Out of—Violent Extremism (2018) (73)
- Revolution: A Sociological Interpretation (1990) (71)
- Sexualities (2007) (67)
- Against the Tide: Pro-Feminist Men in the United States, 1776-1990 a Documentary History (1992) (61)
- The Institutions of France Under the Absolute Monarchy, 1598-1789.@@@Paris, capitale au temps de Richelieu et de Mazarin. (1981) (53)
- Invisible masculinity (1993) (52)
- Culture regained: Situated and compound image schemas (2006) (48)
- Male Victims of Domestic Violence : A Substantive and Methodological Research Review A report to : The Equality Committee of the Department of Education and Science (2003) (44)
- White Men as the New Victims: Reverse Discrimination Cases and the Men's Rights Movement (2013) (44)
- Sources of Embodied Creativity: Interactivity and Ideation in Contact Improvisation (2018) (42)
- SAVING THE MALES (2000) (41)
- Metaphor Variation in Cultural Context: Perspectives from Anthropology (2004) (40)
- Women in College: Shaping New Feminine Identities (1985) (38)
- Men's lives (2nd ed.). (1992) (37)
- Ending gender based violence: a call for global action to involve men (2004) (32)
- Optimizing the analysis of metaphor in discourse: how to make the most of qualitative software and find a good research design (2012) (32)
- Affordances in Interaction: The Case of Aikido (2018) (31)
- Intersubjectivity at Close Quarters: How Dancers of Tango Argentino Use Imagery for Interaction and Improvisation (2009) (31)
- Integrating Men into the Curriculum (1997) (31)
- The gender of desire: The sexual fantasies of women and men (2005) (30)
- The Sexual Self: The Construction of Sexual Scripts (2011) (30)
- Privilege: A Reader (2019) (28)
- The Institutions of France under the Absolute Monarchy, 1598-1789, Vol. II: The Organs of State and Society. (1985) (27)
- Violence, Conflict, and Politics in Colombia. (1982) (27)
- The Hidden Discourse of Masculinity in Gender Discrimination Law (2005) (27)
- Peer Assessment, Individual Performance, and Contribution to Group Processes (2005) (26)
- Through a Gaze Darkly: Pornography's Academic Market@@@The Pornography of Representation.@@@For Adult Users Only: The Dilemma of Violent Pornography.@@@A Male Grief.@@@Men Confront Pornography.@@@Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the 'Frenzy of the Visible.'@@@Caught Looking: Feminism, Pornography and (1991) (25)
- The Contemporary “Crisis” of Masculinity in Historical Perspective (2018) (24)
- Homosexuality, Gender Nonconformity, and the Neoliberal State (2012) (24)
- Changing studies on men and masculinities (2006) (24)
- Adoption of Employee Involvement Practices: Organizational Change Issues and Insights (2013) (23)
- Bodywork as systemic and inter-enactive competence: participatory process management in Feldenkrais® Method and Zen Shiatsu (2014) (21)
- FROM CONSCIENCE AND COMMON SENSE TO “FEMINISM FOR MEN” PRO‐FEMINIST MEN'S RHETORICS OF SUPPORT FOR WOMEN'S EQUALITY (1997) (19)
- Thoughts on the Workplace as a Masculinity Contest (2018) (18)
- Metaphor, Imagery, and Culture. Spatialized Ontologies, Mental Tools, and Multimedia in the Making. (2002) (18)
- Does Censorship Make a Difference (1996) (18)
- Analyzing Image Schemas in Literature (2009) (18)
- Ask a Feminist: Michael Kimmel and Lisa Wade Discuss Toxic Masculinity (2018) (17)
- The Gendered Face of Terrorism (2008) (16)
- Masculinities and Femininities (2001) (15)
- The new men’s movement: Retreat and regression with America’s weekend warriors (1993) (15)
- Sexual balkanization: gender and sexuality as the new ethnicities (1993) (14)
- Masculinities and the Law: A Multidimensional Approach (2012) (14)
- Gender Equality: Not for Women Only (2009) (14)
- Dynamic Coordination Patterns in Tango Argentino: A Cross-Fertilization of Subjective Explication Methods and Motion Capture (2014) (13)
- At Sam's Club, no girls allowed: the lived experience of sex discrimination (2006) (12)
- A Cognitive Theory of Joint Improvisation (2019) (12)
- Reading Right: The Western Tradition in White Supremacist Discourse (2000) (12)
- From Metaphor to the "Mental Sketchpad": Literary Macrostructure and Compound Image Schemas in Heart of Darkness (2005) (12)
- Absolutism and Its Discontents: State and Society in Seventeenth Century France and England (1988) (11)
- The Arc from the Body to Culture: How Affect, Proprioception, Kinesthesia, and Perceptual Imagery Shape Cultural Knowledge (and vice versa) (2013) (10)
- Ritualized Homosexuality in a Nacirema Subculture (2006) (10)
- Metaphors of the EU constitutional debate – Ways of charting discourse coherence in a complex metaphor field (2009) (10)
- The anatomy of antagonistic coregulation: Emergent coordination, path dependency, and the interplay of biomechanic parameters in Aikido. (2019) (9)
- Embodied (Micro-)Skills in Tango Improvisation How a Collaborative Behavioral Arc Comes About (2015) (9)
- “What's This about a Few Good Men?”: Negotiating Gender in Military Education (2000) (9)
- Violence: A Micro‐sociological Theory. By Randall Collins. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2009. Pp. 563. $29.95 (paper). (2010) (8)
- The Micro-genesis of Improvisational Co-creation (2021) (8)
- From text-linguistics to literary actants – The force dynamics of (emotional) vampirism (2011) (8)
- Something is Working—But Why? Mixed Rooms in the Norwegian Army (2016) (7)
- Kinsey's Biographers: A Historiographical Reconnaissance (2003) (7)
- The Referenda on the European Constitution: A Crucial Moment for the Development of a European Public Sphere?, Final Report (2006) (7)
- The sociology of men and masculinites (2006) (6)
- The Gender of Resistance: A Case Study Approach to Thinking about Gender in Violent Resistance Movements (2012) (6)
- Is It the End of Men, or Are Men Still in Power? Yes! (2013) (5)
- The Micro-Genesis of Interpersonal Synergy. Insights from Improvised Dance Duets (2021) (5)
- How Unconscious Bias Hurts Men—and the Companies they Work for (2015) (5)
- seeing privilege where it isn’t (2018) (5)
- The conceptual metaphors of narrative structure: Gestural evidence for spatialized form in storytelling (2014) (4)
- Social and political theory : classical readings (1998) (4)
- "Greedy kisses" and "Melting extasy": notes on the homosexual world of early 18th century England as found in Love Letters Between a Certain Late Nobleman and the Famous Mr. Wilson. (1990) (4)
- Printed Propaganda Under Louis XIV: Absolute Monarchy and Public Opinion. (1981) (4)
- Experience and Enlightenment: Socialization for Cultural Change in Eighteenth-Century Scotland. (1986) (4)
- Mentoring Masculinities: Race and Class in the (Re-)Construction of Gender in the USA and the UK (2005) (3)
- "Is This a White Country, or What?" (2015) (3)
- Metaphors and software-assisted cognitive stylistics (2008) (3)
- Conceptualizing intersectionality in superordination: masculinities, whitenesses, and dominant classes (2014) (3)
- Art Worlds.Howard S. Becker (1983) (3)
- 'Social Formations and Power Structures in Latin America': A Reply (1979) (3)
- Introduction to the special issue “Meaning making: enactive, participatory, interactive, symbolic” (2018) (3)
- “New Prophets” and “Old Ideals”: Charisma and Tradition in the Iranian Revolution (1989) (3)
- Decision-making in Shiatsu bodywork: complementariness of embodied coupling and conceptual inference (2021) (2)
- Engaging Men in the United States: Soft Essentialism and the Obstacles to Coherent Initiatives in Education and Family Policy (2011) (2)
- Mars, Venus or Planet Earth [videorecording] : women & men in a new millennium / Michael Kimmel ; produced by Sut Jhally. (2008) (2)
- Masculinity, Scripts of (2015) (2)
- Men who love women: Pro-feminist masculinities in the Millennium trilogy (2014) (2)
- Reluctant Rebels: Comparative Studies of Revolution and Underdevelopment (1984) (2)
- "There Is a GunMAN on Campus" : Including Identity in Mass Shooting Discourse (2015) (2)
- Jessie Bernard Reader (2008) (2)
- The ‘Reasonable Woman’ and Unreasonable Men: Gendered Discourses in Sexual Harassment Litigation (2004) (2)
- Conceptualizing intersectionality in superordination (2014) (1)
- Hook Ups and Masculinity Among College Students: Evidence from the College Social Life Survey (2008) (1)
- The Approach-Avoidance Dance: Men, Women, and Intimacy (2015) (1)
- The ‘Crisis’ of Masculinity in Seventeenth-Century England (2011) (1)
- The spectrum of distributed creativity: Tango dancing and its generative modalities. (2022) (1)
- Revolution, a Sociological Interpretation (1991) (1)
- Book Review: Buchanan, Andrea J., and Miriam Peskowitz. 2007. The Daring Book for Girls. New York: Collins. Iggulden, Conn, and Hal Iggulden. 2007. The Dangerous Book for Boys. New York: Collins (2009) (1)
- Review Essay: Beyond Dependency: Development and Resistance in Latin America (1985) (1)
- Introduction (2018) (1)
- Unleashing Our Unknown Selves: An Inquiry into the Future of Femininity and Masculinity. (1991) (1)
- White Supremacists, or the Emasculation of the American White Man (2017) (1)
- Employee Involvement and Organizational Effectiveness: A Test of Lawler's PIRK Framework (2017) (1)
- Manhood in America: A Cultural History. By Michael Kimmel. (New York: Free Press, 1996. xiv, 544 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-02-874067-X.) (1997) (1)
- A War Against Boys (2000) (1)
- Tales of Power.Carlos Casteneda (1975) (1)
- Book Review:Journey to Ixtlan: The Lessons of Don Juan. Carlos Casteneda (1974) (1)
- The Struggle for Gender Equality: How Men Respond. (1993) (1)
- The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism.Rodney Hilton (1977) (1)
- “White Men Are This Nation”: Right-Wing Militias and the Restoration of Rural American Masculinity: Abby L. Ferber and Michael S. Kimmel (2004) (1)
- Women and Gender Studies / Queer Theory (2007) (1)
- Book Review: Guys and Guns Amok. By Douglas Kellner. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2008, 221 pp., $83.30 (cloth); $24.61 (paper) (2011) (0)
- Carnival in Romans.Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Mary FeeneyThe Territory of the Historian.Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Ben Reynolds , Sian Reynolds (1980) (0)
- Mundus foppensis (1691) ; and, The Levellers (1745, first edition 1703) (1988) (0)
- Pulp Friction: How College Women Navigate Identity, Sexuality and Gender Conformity in Recent Mega-Hit Book Series (2016) (0)
- The Wayward Gate: Science and the Supernatural.Philip Slater (1979) (0)
- Women, Family, and Class: The Lillian Rubin Reader (2009) (0)
- Transforming the Revolution: Social Movements and the World System. (1991) (0)
- 4. United States: Life after Hate with “Life After Hate” (2019) (0)
- Exploring Aging Masculinities From Different Disciplines and Perspectives (2020) (0)
- Outbreaks: The Sociology of Collective Behavior.@@@Social Movements: Development, Participation, and Dynamics. (1983) (0)
- ABANDONING THE BARRICADES: OR HOW I BECAME A FEMINIST (2007) (0)
- Reconstituting Community: Moral Economy and Community-Based Social Movements in Industrial Nations (1987) (0)
- The Good-Provider Role: Its Rise and Fall (1981) (2015) (0)
- Epilogue: Masculinity Studies: New Directions (2017) (0)
- Sex and Sensibility: The Inner Circle by T. C. Boyle. Viking, 2004, 418 pages Kinsey written and directed by Bill Condon Fox Searchlight Features (2005) (0)
- New Directions Underway for Friends of Womens Studies at Ku New Graduate Certificate Program in Womens Studies Visiting Lecturers Deliver Public Talks in Fall 2002 (0)
- An Exploration of Citations to the Editors of Management Journals (2015) (0)
- 1. The Making–and Unmaking-–of Violent Men (2019) (0)
- Jackie: The “most hated man” in Sweden (2019) (0)
- Anonymity Peer Assessment, Individual Performance, and Contribution to Group Processes: The Impact of Rater (2009) (0)
- Masculinity and murder (2002) (0)
- Comparative Social Research, Vol. 8: Deviance.@@@Comparative Social Research, Vol. 9: Historical Studies. (1988) (0)
- Masculinities and the Law (2017) (0)
- “If you have been on Top of an Unequal System for a Really Long Time, Meritocracy Sucks” (2015) (0)
- Gender, identity and education (2013) (0)
- Feminist scholarship has shown us that not only does gender matter, it is diverse and interacts with other hierarchies of power in society (2012) (0)
- Family Values and the Invisible Working Class (2015) (0)
- Teaching About Men: Retrieving Women's Studies Long Lost Brother. (1986) (0)
- Slavery's Bloody, Embodied Legacy (2016) (0)
- Men and Women’s Studies: Promise, Pitfalls, and Possibilities (2012) (0)
- Revolution: A Sociological Interpretation. (1992) (0)
- Book Review:Fraternity Gang Rape: Sex, Brotherhood and Privilege on Campus. Peggy Reeves Sanday (1991) (0)
- Rock 'n' Roll Jews. By Michael Billig. Nottingham: Five Leaves Publications, 2000. 168 pp. (2001) (0)
- Jock. In: Kimmel, M., ed. Encyclopedia of Studies on Men and Masculinities. (2004) (0)
- A Proposal to Strengthen the Right of Response to Negative Campaign Commercials (1999) (0)
- 3. Sweden: Entry and EXIT (2019) (0)
- The Peasants of Languedoc.Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, John Day (1978) (0)
- G-Strings and Sympathy: Strip Club Regulars and Male Desire (review) (2004) (0)
- Immanuel Wallerstein'sThe Modern World System: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World Economy in the Sixteenth Century: A review essay (1977) (0)
- Feminism and Feminist Scholarship Today (2011) (0)
- 5. Britain: The Ex-jihadists Next Door (2019) (0)
- Manliness and Its Discontents: The Black Middle Class and the Transformation of Masculinity, 1900 to 1930 (2005) (0)
- Europe and the People without History.Eric R. Wolf (1984) (0)
- Ritual, Politics, and Power.David I. Kertzer (1989) (0)
- Matthias: Intergenerational Neo-Nazi (2019) (0)
- Book Reviews (1997) (0)
- Absolutism and its discontents : fiscal crisis and political opposition in seventeenth century France and England (1981) (0)
- Transforming the Revolution: Social Movements and the World System.By Samir Amin, Giovanni Arrighi, Andre Gunder Frank, and Immanuel Wallerstein. Monthly Review Press, 1990. 187 pp. Cloth, $35.00; paper $14.00 (1991) (0)
- Styling Masculinity: Gender, Class, and Inequality in the Men’s Grooming Industry (2017) (0)
- Experience and Enlightenment: Socialization for Cultural Change in Eighteenth-Century Scotland.By Charles Camic. University of Chicago Press, 1983. 301 pp. $25.00 (1986) (0)
- Gestalt-Based Linguistics and the GABEK Method:What Cognitive Science Has to Say on ‘Space Logic’ in Everyday Thought (2004) (0)
- Richard Stott, Jolly Fellows: Male Milieus in Nineteenth-Century America (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009, $55.00). Pp. 376. isbn 978 0 8018 9137 3. (2010) (0)
- Book Review: Medicalized Masculinities. Edited by Dana Rosenfeld and Christopher A. Faircloth. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2006, 272 pp., $24.95 (paper) (2007) (0)
- Book Review: The Transition From Feudalism To Capitalism (1977) (0)
- Specific Reputation & Organizational Performance: Comparing Overall and Employer Reputation (2018) (0)
- Sexualities: Identities, Behaviors, and Society: Second Edition (2014) (0)
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