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Article: Feminism liberates men, women alike.(Column)(Sexual Violence and American Manhood)(Book Review)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- October 24, 2003
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Feminist thought in America is too often construed as something for women only. Men need not listen, especially white heterosexual men. Minority men also have their issues of oppression. Gay men need to mobilize against homophobia. Black men bear a vicious legacy of racism in this country, which includes projections of the sexual fears of whites that were used to lynch many black males. But where is the white, middle-class heterosexual man to find a redemptive word? Can he only stand in abashed guilt before these many charges of class, race and gender privilege, or does he try to reclaim these privileges with macho defiance? The latter stance seems to be mostly in vogue ...
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