Jensen Robert - The end of patriarchy: radical feminism for men

At a time when much of what passes for feminism is actually a neo-liberal approach that privileges individual empowerment over revolutionary social change, Robert Jensen comes out with a much-needed book that is bound to put the radical back in feminism. His insightful analysis, unflinching commitment to radical feminism, and his courageous call to eradicate patriarchy makes The End of Patriarchy: Radical Feminism for Men a refreshing and bold text.

Gail Dines, Professor of Sociology and Womens Studies, Wheelock College, and author of Pornland: How Porn has Hijacked our Sexuality

This is a terrific, powerful, informative book. There is not one page without an idea worth discussing and exploring. Jensen emerges as a wise and humble man willing to listen to women and to question men. Such men are rare. He does the opposite of mansplaining: man-listening-to-women! I love it!

Jeffrey Masson, author of Beasts: What Animals Can Teach Us About the Origins of Good and Evil

Jensen presents a brilliant and brave analysis of patriarchy and its costs. His thoughts concerning rape, pornography, and transgenderism are deeply insightful and importantand especially compelling in their clarity and honesty. This book is a must-read for men and women who, like Jensen, care passionately about imagining and creating a sustainable, humane, and socially just world.

Rebecca Bigler, Professor of Psychology and Womens and Gender Studies, University of Texas

The End of Patriarchy is a must-read book for menand womenwho know in their gut that mens economic, social and political dominance does terrible harm to women and men, but who lack the cogent arguments or words to express how. With his trademark style that manages to convey both heartfelt humility and breathtaking moral clarity, Robert Jensen expresses the fear that so many men have of engaging deeply with feminist ideasas well as the incalculable rewards for those willing to take the leap.

Jackson Katz, PhD, author of The Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women

Women will be grateful for this book because Robert Jensen will be heard by men in a way that women are not. If men will open their minds to it, it will change their lives.

Betty McLellan, PhD, author of Unspeakable: A feminist ethic of speech.

Read this book. Reckon with it. In a culmination of his lifes work to understand, address, and resist inequality, Robert Jensen offers us a critical interrogation of patriarchy and male dominance and also a call to action. This book is important and uncomfortable, and it is both of these things because of Jensens unflinching radical analysis and deep emotional honesty.

Matthew B. Ezzell, PhD, Associate Professor of Sociology, James Madison University

In The End of Patriarchy, Robert Jensen reveals that far from being an outmoded ideology, radical feminist thought is a political practice that transforms us from the inside out forcing us to confront the painful and profound ways in which patriarchy distorts our collective humanity. He challenges all of us to reconsider how radical feminism can help us to think through the most pressing social issues of the current moment from the persistence of rape culture to patterns of ecological destruction that threaten the future of human life on the planet. This book is an invitation to engage with radical feminisms insights and the critical strategies for imagining a better and more just social order. A truly powerful and necessary text.

Courtney Morris, Assistant Professor, The Pennsylvania State University

For more than two decades Robert Jensen has been a thorn in the side of patriarchy, pushing us to see how a sexist world both constructs and constrains who we are. He simultaneously dares us to look inside at the damage its done to us, and to imagine a world beyond its cruel constructs. I dont always agree with him, but I believe it is imperative that I read his work, wrestle with his ideas. Some of his ideas are not nice but they are necessary.

Michael Kimmel, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Stony Brook University, and author of Angry White Men

To end patriarchy, men must confront male domination and stop it. That might seem like too tall of an order, but in The End of Patriarchy Robert Jensen turns that personal challenge into a political call to action. He daringly shows that radical feminist thought and action is essential to our survival as a species and planet. Through his self-reflection and critical thinking, we discover a man who is a role model for men and boys, students and activists, in the struggle to create a genuine society free from misogyny and inequality.

Kathleen Barry, Professor Emerita, author of The Prostitution of Sexuality and Unmaking War, Remaking Men

Patriarchy is the water that we swim in, and it is poisonous and rank. Unless we see that, how can we ever escape into fresh clean air? In this lucid, balanced and immaculately argued book, Robert Jensen builds his case inexorably towards answering the biggest questions of our lives. Can we re-discover an equal society for humans? Can we live on this earth? We did once, and we can again. This is a book of hope.

Steve Biddulph AM, author of The New Manhood

Drawing on his many years of work, challenging toxic masculinity and the pathology of patriarchy, Robert Jensen shows what it really meansin both political and deeply personal waysfor men to support an end to systems of male dominance. Any man who considers himself an ally of the feminist movement should read this book. And then they should encourage every man they know to read it too.

Meagan Tyler, PhD, Vice-Chancellors Research Fellow, RMIT University, and co-editor of Freedom Fallacy: The limits of liberal feminism.

The End of Patriarchy poses a bold challenge to both the patriarchal inequalities which brutalise women and limit men and the stunted visions of gender and its transformation visible in contemporary gender politics. In this highly readable and passionate work, Robert Jensen offers an eloquent account of the implications of radical feminist insights for mens everyday lives and choices.

Michael Flood, PhD, Associate Professor, University of Wollongong

At a point where womens betrayal by the male left has been near-universal, Robert Jensen does a service to feminism in recognising that the best hope for the planet lies in radical feminist thinking and action.

Julia Long, PhD, lecturer and lesbian feminist activist, author of Anti-Porn: The Resurgence of Anti-Pornography Feminism

Robert Jensen is a professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, where he teaches courses in media law, ethics, and politics and is a Regents Outstanding Teaching Award winner. Jensen is a board member of Culture Reframed and the Third Coast Activist Resource Center.

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