Chapter 1 Introduction: Close Encounters Chapter 2 Men, Masculinity, and Mourning on the Mall: National Manhood and Male Romance Chapter 3 Revolutionary Men: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Reconfiguration of Black Masculine Ideals Chapter 4 A Circle of Loving Companions: Radically Gay Chapter 5 Reenchanting (White) Masculinity: The Profeminist Heritage of “Men’s Liberation” Chapter 6 Iron and Ironing Johns: Being Born Again in the Mythopoetic Movement Chapter 7 Fathers of Themselves Chapter 8 Reinventing the Husband Chapter 9 Doing The Work of Love: Promise Keepers on Work, Marriage, and Fathering Chapter 10 Beyond a Focus on the Family: Love Work As Race Reconciliation Chapter 11 The Politics of Feeling
Judith Newton is professor of women and gender studies at University of California, Davis. She is the author and editor of many books, including Women, Power, and Subversion: Social Strategies in British Fiction, 1778-1860 and Starting Over: Feminism and the Politics of Cultural Critique. She is currently head of the Consortium for Women and Research at UC Davis.
Judith Newton's years of research on men's networks, along with her
insight into the complex ways that gender relations are intertwined
with race, sexualities, and nation, have resulted in an important
and provocative book. From Panthers to Promise Keepers moves men of
color and gay men from the margins to the center of analysis, and
the result is a ray of optimism: When we de-center white,
heterosexual men from our analysis, Newton shows us, we see that
men's collective efforts to develop ideals of manhood based on care
and connection with others may yet contribute to the development of
a more peaceful and egalitarian world.
*Cheng Chen, University of Southern California*
This profound, original, and engaging book leaps boldly and
imaginatively across disciplinary fences to tackle the ultimate
feminist riddle: what do men want? Drawing upon ethnography,
literary criticism, psychoanalysis, and historical and sociological
analysis, From Panthers to Promise Keepers plumbs the sources and
meanings of contemporary men’s movements from urban guerillas and
mythopoetic drum-beaters to charismatic Christians and queer
activists. The mystifying terrain of contemporary masculinities has
no more sage or sympathetic feminist oracle than Judith Newton.
*Judith Stacey, New York University*
Newton takes seriously recent calls by scholars to bring emotions
back to the study of social movements. Her book should prove of
substantial value for collections in social movements and gender
studies. Highly recommended.
*CHOICE*
Newton does an impressive and welcomed rethinking of the 'men's
movement.'...[and] provides a vary valuable study that teases out
the similarities and differences of various networks of men who
gather together in various ways, often using aspects of male
romance, to enhance their emotional lives and their relationships,
which also benefits women, children, other men, and families of
whatever configuration.
*Men and Masculinities*
Judith Newton has produced a pioneering work that connects African
American social movements of the 1960s to men's movements of the
1970s and 1980s. Her approach is innovative, weaving together a
sophisticated theoretical argument with personal narrative. This
well-grounded book adds considerably to our knowledge of how ideas
and ideologies spill over to other social movements.
*Belinda Robnett, University of California, Irvine*
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