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Shira Tarrant
Men and Feminism: Seal Studies

Tuesday, May 26 @ 7:00PM

Lir Irish Pub, 903 Boylston St., Boston

There’s no denying that men’s involvement and interest in feminism is key to its continuing relevance and importance. Shira Tarrant, an expert in gender politics, feminism, pop culture, and masculinity, in her new work Men and Feminism, addresses the question of why men should care about feminism in the first place.

Men and Feminism lays the foundation for a larger discussion about feminism as a human issue, not simply a women’s issue. Men are crucial to the movement — as fathers, brothers, husbands, boyfriends, and friends. From “why” to “how” to “what can men do”, Men and Feminism answers all the questions men have about how and why they should get behind feminism.

Tarrant is the author of When Sex Became Gender (Routledge) and editor of the provocative anthology Men Speak Out: Views on Gender, Sex and Power (Routledge). Her work has appeared in Bitch, off our backs, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Genre magazine, and The Women’s Movement Today: An Encyclopedia of Third-Wave Feminism. Tarrant is the column editor for “The Man Files” at the popular blog Girl With Pen.

Sponsored by Center for New Words and co-sponsored by the Boston Chapter of NOMAS

http://www.centerfornewwords.org/events/2009/02/shira_tarrant.php