Topic
Male privilege
About: Male privilege is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 234 publications have been published within this topic receiving 9489 citations.
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Papers
1 Jan 2003
TL;DR: Men's unwillingness to grant that they are overprivileged, even though they may grant that women are disadvantaged, has been identified as a barrier to women's empowerment as discussed by the authors. But they can't or won't support the idea of lessening men's privilege.
Abstract: Through work to bring materials from women's studies into the rest of the curriculum, I have often noticed men's unwillingness to grant that they are overprivileged, even though they may grant that women are disadvantaged. They may say they will work to women's statues, in the society, the university, or the curriculum, but they can't or won't support the idea of lessening men's. Denials that amount to taboos surround the subject of advantages that men gain from women's disadvantages. These denials protect male privilege from being fully acknowledged, lessened, or ended.
3,082 citations
1 Jan 1988
TL;DR: Men's unwillingness to grant that women are overprivileged in the curriculum, even though they may grant women are disadvantaged, has been identified as a barrier preventing women from being fully recognized, acknowledged, lessened or ended.
Abstract: Through work to bring materials and perspectives from Women's Studies into the rest of the curriculum, I have often noticed men's unwillingness to grant that they are overprivileged in the curriculum, even though they may grant that women are disadvantaged. Denials that amount to taboos surround the subject of advantages that men gain from women's disadvantages. These denials protect male privilege from being fully recognized, acknowledged, lessened, or ended.
1,620 citations
4 Jul 2019
758 citations
TL;DR: The gender asset gap in Latin America with respect to ownership of land is significant as discussed by the authors, with women less likely than men to be successful buyers in the land market, while men are more likely than women to acquire land through its distribution by communities or the state and via the market.
387 citations
Abstract: List of Illustrations Foreword Acknowledgments Ch. 1: Remaking Manhood through Race and "Civilization" Ch. 2: "The White Man's Civilization on Trial": Ida B. Wells, Representations of Lynching, and Northern Middle-Class Manhood Ch. 3: "Teaching Our Sons to Do What We Have Been Teaching the Savages to Avoid": G. Stanley Hall, Racial Recapitulation, and the Neurasthenic Paradox Ch. 4: "Not to Sex - But to Race!" Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Civilized Anglo-Saxon Womanhood, and the Return of the Primitive Rapist Ch. 5: Theodore Roosevelt: Manhood, Nation, and "Civilization" Conclusion: Tarzan and After Notes Bibliography Index
382 citations
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| 2022 | 1 |
| 2021 | 13 |
| 2020 | 12 |
| 2019 | 13 |
| 2018 | 8 |
| 2017 | 7 |