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Title: The Gender Knot: Unraveling Our Patriarchal Legacy by Allan G. Johnson ISBN: 1-56639-519-4 Publisher: Temple University Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.31 (16 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Hard, compelling truths
Comment: When I first read this book a couple of years ago, I was not prepared to accept the full sweep of Johnson's arguments. It was not that I disagreed with his reasoning -- his logic is as sound as his prose is lucid! But I was not prepared for the implications of what he had written for my own life -- as a man who professed to be active in the feminist movement, I was for some time not prepared to make the changes in my private life which were necessary to unravel my own "gender knot". But I have grown, I have changed, and as I mature both as a man and an academician, I realize just how fundamentally right on Johnson is. His words haunt me: "That I don't rape women doesn't mean I'm not involved in a patriarchal society that promotes both male privilege and male violence against women." Men need to remember that.
Rating: 5
Summary: Fabulous! Highly insightful
Comment: Allan Johnson writes with rare clarity about gender issues.
Here at last is a book about gender relations that both men and women can feel connected to. Johnson validates women's feminist work, holding it up as an example of both moral and intellectual achievement. In fact, he takes feminism absolutely seriously, which made me realize just how rare that is. And yet, he's not a guilt-ridden "sensitive 90's guy" who is merely kow-towing to anything female because of the long history of our mistreatment at the hands of his gender. Instead, Johnson takes a far more responsible role than passive guilt. He is actively working to understand patriarchy from a male perspective in order that he can be part of a large-scale, *societal* (not individual-level) solution to the gender problems we are mired in. Men will not feel personally attacked by his stance on patriarchy, and yet, women will feel validated.
This is a very important book.
Rating: 5
Summary: who's to blame?
Comment: This is an excellent book because he does not enforce a man-hating policy. Instead, he addresses everyone who participates in the patriarchal society. So many men and women resist feminism because everyone's looking for the people to blame, and no one wants to feel guilty. He states simply that we are all to blame if we do not examine how we live our lives. I know now that even though i'm a woman, i too was to blame. Patriarchy is bigger than all of us, and to say that Johnson hates men or is self-loathing is ignorant and only goes to prove the point of his book. If you have the chance to see him speak--do so. It's worth it.
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Title: Privilege, Power, and Difference by Allan G Johnson ISBN: 0767422546 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages Pub. Date: 15 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $28.05 |
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Title: Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice by Paul Kivel ISBN: 0865714592 Publisher: New Society Publishers Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study by Paula S. Rothenberg, Nicolaus Schafhausen, Caroline Schneider ISBN: 1572599502 Publisher: Worth Publishers Inc Pub. Date: 01 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $49.85 |
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Title: Promoting Diversity and Social Justice: Educating People from Privileged Groups (Winter Roundtable Series, 2) by Diane J. Goodman ISBN: 0761910808 Publisher: Sage Publications Pub. Date: 01 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $38.95 |
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Title: Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice: A Sourcebook for Teachers and Trainers by Maurianne Adams, Lee Anne Bell, Pat Griffin ISBN: 0415910579 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 June, 1997 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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