Gender Studies Query - Men's Feminism

the scientistt · #1 Wednesday, November 04, 2015

There is a topic in syllabus : Men's feminism .
Can somebody explain what it is ?

I googled bit couldn't find any pertinent information.

ADIL KHESHGI · #2 Wednesday, November 04, 2015

Men's Feminism: Stands for those feminists who are male. I mean men working for the rights and liberation of women. But some feminist schools of thought (Radical Feminism+Standpoint Feminism) contends that men can't be feminists, the reservation of Standpoint Feminism makes a point here.
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Nazish Hina · #3 Thursday, November 05, 2015

Feminism is equality of men and women both.

Male feminism is not about women's liberation. It is about not conforming to gender roles and society's insistence on maintaining the status quo and patriarchy
For example if a man does not want to be employed and wants to stay at home. Society has no right to treat him as an inferior being. Feminism will advance when men break through these cultural barriers and only then the true equality for both men and women can be achieved.

Of course it can only happen when women feminists stop male bashing otherwise men feel defensive which gives rise to movements like men's rights and so on.

Other sources: Men and feminism Wikipedia

Feminism: the men arrive

Can A man be a feminist

P.S: I have not opted Gender studies I just take interest in it.

Have a nice day

Anila26 · #4 Thursday, November 05, 2015

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Originally Posted by the scientistt

There is a topic in syllabus : Men's feminism .
Can somebody explain what it is ?

I googled bit couldn't find any pertinent information.

I have prepared gender studies from gender studies by M. Nawaz Khalid. Following are the main points of this topic.
-it is a field of study that applies feminist theories to the study of men and masculinity.
-focus is to scrutinize masculinity as carefully as femininity and to develop a theory not of masculinity but of masculinties ( having said that it means to analyze and scrutinize men's role, inequalities and discrimination in available opportunities , sex prefrences).
-it develops a concept of hegemonic masculinity which is used to dissect the differences between and within groups of middle class and working class men of different ethnic groups and sexual orientation.

the scientistt · #5 Thursday, November 05, 2015

Thanks , I have gone through the answers and will surely go through these dimensions.

Once again. Thanks

irfxsumro · #6 Thursday, December 24, 2015

Hey can anyone suggest how to attempt fifth topic in syllabus. :

Colonial and capitalistic perspectives of gender,
Gender analysis of development theories, modernization theory, world system theory dependency theory structuralism theory.

Regards.

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