Michael Kimmel is among the leading researchers and writers on men and masculinity in the world today. The author or editor of more than twenty volumes, his books include Men Confront Pornography and the documentary history Against the Tide: Pro-Feminist Men in the United States, 1776-1990, which chronicled men who supported women’s equality since the founding of the country.

A vocal minority of American men have actively supported women’s struggles for equality, better wages, suffrage, the right to abortion and other causes. This pioneering volume, an anthology of writings by men who have either advocated or campaigned for women’s rights, will serve as an inspirational sourcebook for both men and women.
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Changing Men assembles some of the most innovative and exciting research on men and masculinity. As such, it contributes to the demarcation of a new field called men’s studies, as well as to the examination of masculinity within traditional academic disciplines.
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Here, one of the world’s pioneers in the field of masculinity studies explores the construction of male sexuality, pornography, and sexual violence. Michael S. Kimmel analyzes what male sexuality is, where it comes from, how it works, what affects it, pornography’s impact on it, what fantasies men have about sex, what people think about sex, and how male ideas about sex affect what men actually do.
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They say that we come from different planets (men from Mars, women from Venus), that we have different brain chemistries and hormones, and that we listen, speak, and even define our morals differently. How is it then that men and women live together, take the same classes in school, eat the same food, read the same books, and receive grades according to the same criteria? Kimmel examines our basic beliefs about gender, arguing that men and women are more alike than we have ever imagined.
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A collection of historical articles and essays on the history of American and British masculinities by a pioneer in the developing field of masculinity studies.
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For more than three decades, the women’s movement and its scholars have exhaustively studied women’s complex history, roles, and struggles. In Manhood in America, author Michael Kimmel — a leading authority in gender studies — argues that it is time for men to rediscover their own evolution.
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In 35 groundbreaking essays, men candidly examine the role of pornography in their own lives.
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In the past, research in the field of gender has mainly addressed issues about women, and has for the most part been developed by women. Recently, the study of gender has rapidly expanded and there has been a growing interest in men’s and boys’ identities, conduct, and problems. This handbook is an interdisciplinary and international culmination of the growth of men’s studies that also offers insight about future directions for the field.
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Edited by two of the field’s most prominent researchers, this best-selling reader on men and masculinity takes a life-course perspective, using the idea that men (as well as women) are “gendered” and that this gendering process is a central experience for men.
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In this anthology on the experience of privilege in America — as it relates to holding the identity of the dominant gender, class, race, and sexual preference — sociologists Michael Kimmel and Abby Ferber, along with a wide range of contributors, challenge students to think more critically about the myriad inequalities in society and to become more aware of how the dynamics that create inequality for some also benefit others.
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The concept and reality of revolution continue to pose some of the most challenging and important questions in the world today. In Revolution, Michael S. Kimmel examines why the study of revolution has attained such importance, and he provides a systemic and historical analysis of key ideas and theories offered by nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century theorists, such as Marx, Weber, Durkheim, Tocqueville, and Freud.
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In the late 1960s two sociologists, John Gagnon and William Simon, developed the concept of sexual scripts as part of a larger project of treating sexuality like any other social phenomenon. In the end, their vision of social construction turned Kinsey on his head, and their model spurred the development of an entire field of Sexuality Studies. Michael Kimmel has gathered together essays from three generations of scholars influenced by this perspective on sexuality.

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Featuring a variety of readings, this interdisciplinary anthology addresses such key questions as: How are sexualities socially constructed? Why are sexualities more than just natural “urges” or “drives”? and How are sexualities personal, social, and political? Sexualities: Identities, Behaviors, and Society focuses on gender, using multiple disciplines, international populations, and theories to explore sexualities.
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Sociology has always offered a way to make sense of the complex and sometimes contradictory forces that shape our social lives in any era. Sociology Now explains sociology as both a body of knowledge and a way of seeing, showing how two such forces in particular have come to preoccupy sociologists and influence the way they look at the events and experiences of the early twenty first century.
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