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Nathanson and Young were criticized in ''The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology''. Nancy Lewis-Horne writes, "<nowiki>[The work of Nathanson and Young]</nowiki> is seriously flawed in three important areas: lack of theoretical connection, especially in its use and misuse of feminist theory, of weak methodology, and its inability to link culture with structure... I am not convinced that misandry is a pervasive cultural pattern. Consequently I do not recommend this book for academic or popular consumption."<ref>{{cite web |title=Book Review PAUL NATHANSON and KATHERINE K. YOUNG, Spreading Misandry |accessdate=2007-01-06 |last=Lewis-Horne |first=Nancy |work=The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology |publisher= Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20060221214150/http://www.csaa.ca/CRSA/BookReview/Reviews/200311/200311NATHANSON.htm |
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== See also == |
== See also == |
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Misandry (IPA [mɪ.ˈsæn.dri]) is the hatred of males as a sex, as opposed to misogyny, the hatred of women; or misanthropy, hatred of the human species. Misandry comes from misos (Greek μῖσος, "hatred") + andr-ia (Greek anér-andros, "man"). Those holding misandric beliefs can be of either sex.
Etymology
According to YourDictionary.com, the etymology of the word "misandry" is:
From Greek misandros "man-hating," based on misos "hatred" + anêr, andros "man, adult male." The Greek word is akin to Albanian njerí and na, nar- "man, person." Armenian air, arn "man, person" also descends from the same Proto-Indo-European root. The root of this word also took on a suffix which led to Greek anthropos "man, human, person," found in "anthropology" and "misanthropy," mentioned above. However, this last word was used to refer to "man" in the generic sense of a person of either sex. [1]
Misandry in literature
Misandry in ancient Greek literature
Classics professor Froma Zeitlin of Princeton University discussed misandry in her article titled "Patterns of Gender in Aeschylean Drama: Seven against Thebes and the Danaid Trilogy."[2] She writes:
The most significant point of contact, however, between Eteocles and the suppliant Danaids is, in fact, their extreme positions with regard to the opposite sex: the misogyny of Eteocles’ outburst against all women of whatever variety (Se. 181-202) has its counterpart in the seeming misandry of the Danaids, who although opposed to their Egyptian cousins in particular (marriage with them is incestuous, they are violent men) often extend their objections to include the race of males as a whole and view their cause as a passionate contest between the sexes(cf. Su. 29, 393, 487, 818, 951).[2]
Contemporary literary criticism
In his book, Gender and Judaism: The transformation of tradition, Harry Brod, a Professor of Philosophy and Humanities in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of Northern Iowa, writes:
In the introduction to The Great Comic Book Heroes, Jules Feiffer writes that this is Superman's joke on the rest of us. Clark is Superman's vision of what other men are really like. We are scared, incompetent, and powerless, particularly around women. Though Feiffer took the joke good-naturedly, his misandry embodied the Clark and his misogyny in his wish that Lois be enamored of Clark (much like Oberon takes out hostility toward Titania by having her fall in love with an ass in Shakespeare's Midsummer-Night's Dream).[3]
Misandry in conservative commentary
Christina Hoff Sommers, a conservative commentator, argues that feminism has a 'corrosive paradox' and that no group of women can wage war on men without at the same time denigrating the women who respect those men." [4] Wendy McElroy argues that some feminists "have redefined the view of the movement of the opposite sex" as "a hot anger toward men seems to have turned into a cold hatred."[5] She argues that men as a class are considered irreformable, all men are considered rapists, and marriage, rape and prostitution are seen as the same. She says "a new ideology has come to the forefront... radical or gender, feminism", one that has "joined hands with [the] political correctness movement that condemns the panorama of western civilization as sexist and racist: the product of 'dead white males.'"[6]Judith Levine calls Misandry "the hate that dares not speak its name".[7] Charlotte Hays , a conservative pundit, argues "that the anti-male philosophy of radical feminism has filtered into the culture at large — is incontestable; indeed, this attitude has become so pervasive that we hardly notice it any longer."[8]
Writer Warren Farrell compares dehumanizing stereotyping of men to dehumanization of the Vietnamese as "gooks." [9] Religious Studies professors at McGill University, Paul Nathanson and Katherine Young, argue that misandry primarily stems from the gynocentric use of gender, and is used to blame all men as responsible for imposing gender. Nathanson and Young criticize the feminist idea of gender being a social construct containing the underlying assumption that male-determined societal imperatives should trump individual rights.[10]
Nathanson and Young were criticized in The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology. Nancy Lewis-Horne writes, "[The work of Nathanson and Young] is seriously flawed in three important areas: lack of theoretical connection, especially in its use and misuse of feminist theory, of weak methodology, and its inability to link culture with structure... I am not convinced that misandry is a pervasive cultural pattern. Consequently I do not recommend this book for academic or popular consumption."[11]
See also
- Antifeminism
- Boys are stupid, throw rocks at them!
- Equalism
- Masculism
- Men's movement
- Misanthropy
- SCUM manifesto
References
Footnotes
- ^ YourDictionary.com
- ^ a b Zeitlin, Froma I. "Patterns of Gender in Aeschylean Drama: Seven against Thebes and the Danaid Trilogy" (PDF). Retrieved 2007-12-21.
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- ^ Hoff Sommers, Christina (1994). Who Stole Feminism. Simon and Schuster. pp. p. 256. ISBN 978-0684801568.
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- ^ Levine, My Enemy, My Love: Man-hating and Ambivalence in Women's Lives.
- ^ Hays, Charlotte. 'The Worse Half'. National Review 11 March, 2002.
- ^ Farrell, Warren. Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say. ISBN 087477988X.
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Bibliography
- Hoff Summers, Christina, Who Stole Feminism: How Women Have Betrayed Women, 1994.
- Farrell, Warren. The Myth of Male Power. Berkley Trade, 2001. ISBN 0-425-18144-8
- Schwartz, Howard. The Revolt of the Primitive: An Inquiry into the Roots of Political Correctness. Revised Edition. Transaction Publishers, 2003. ISBN 0765805375
- Levine, Judith. My Enemy, my Love: Man-hating and ambivalence in women's lives. 1992.
- McElroy, Wendy (2001), Sexual Correctness: The Gender-Feminist Attack on Women, Harper Paperbacks, New York: McFarland & Company, ISBN 978-0786411443
- Nathanson, Paul; Young, Katherine R. (2001), Spreading Misandry: The Teaching of Contempt for Men in Popular Culture, Harper Paperbacks, Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, ISBN 9780773530997
- Nathanson, Paul; Young, Katherine R. (2006), Legalizing Misandry: From Public Shame to Systemic Discrimination against Men, Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, ISBN 9780773528628
External links
- Androphobia: The Only Respectable Bigotry by Robert Anton Wilson
- Misandry: From the Dictionary of Fools by Richard Leader (article critical of the use of the term)
- Anti Misandry Web Site