Contents
Preface
Publication Information
Introduction – Michael S. Kimmel
Part I: Conceptual Critiques
1. Weekend Warriors: Robert Bly and the Politics of Masculine Retreat – Michael S. Kimmel and Michael Kaufman
2. Mythopoetic Foundations and New Age Patriarchy – Ken Clatterbaugh
3. Gazing into Men's Middles: Sam Keen's Fire in the Belly – Don Sabo
Part II: The Personal is Political: The Mythopoetic Men's Movement as a Social Movement
4. Men at Bay: The Men's Movement and Its Newest Bestsellers – R.W. Connell
5. The Politics of the Mythopoetic Men's Movement – Harry Brod
6. "Changing Men" and Feminist Politics in the United States – Michael A. Messner
Part III: The Personal is Intellectual
7. Born to Run: Nineteenth Century Fantasies of Masculine Retreat and Recreation (or The Historical Rust on Iron John) – Michael S. Kimmel
8. Deep Masculinity as Social Control: Foucault, Bly and Masculinity – Tim Beneke
9. A Woman for Every Wild Man: Robert Bly and His Reaffirmation of Masculinity – David Gutterman
10. Renewal as Retreat: The Battle for Men's Souls – Timothy Nonn
11. Mythopoetic Men's Work as a Search for Communitas – Michael Schwalbe
Part IV: The Personal is Personal: The Politics of the Masculinist Therapeutic
12. Homophobia in Robert Bly's Iron John – Gordon Murray
13. The Shadow of Iron John – Paul Wolf-Light
14. Soft Males and Mama's Boys: A Critique of Bly – Terry A Kupers
15. Psyche, Society, and the Men's Movement – Chris Bullock
16. Cultural Daddy-ism and Male Hysteria, – David M. Weed
17. Iron Clint: Queer Weddings in Robert Bly's Iron John and Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven – Mark Simpson
Part V: The Struggle for Men's Souls: Mythopoetic Men Respond to the Pro Feminist Critique
18. Thoughts on Reading This Book – Robert Bly
19. The Post-Feminist Men's Movement – Aaron Kipnis
20. Healing, Community and Justice in the Men's Movement: Towards a Socially Responsible Model of Masculinity – Onaje Benjamin
21. Mythopoetic Men's Movements – Shepherd Bliss
22. We've Come a Long Way Too, Baby. And We've Still Got a Ways to Go. So Give Us a Break! – Marvin Allen
23. 25 Years in the Men's Movement – Jed Diamond
Part VI: Conclusion: Can We All Get Along?
24. Why Mythopoetic Men Don't Flock to NOMAS – Michael Schwalbe
25. In Defense of the Men's Movements – Don Shewey
26. Betwixt and Between in the Men's Movement – Mike Dash
Afterword: Tame Questions of Wild Men – Michael S. Kimmel
Contributors