Michael Kimmel: Is there a Gay "Guyland"?
Filed by: Jason Tseng
September 11, 2008 1:00 PM
http://www.bilerico.com/2008/09/michael_kimmel_is_there_a_gay_guyland.php (http://www.bilerico.com/2008/09/michael_kimmel_is_there_a_gay_guyland.php)
Michael Kimmel, a leading sociologist and scholar in the study of masculinity, recently released his new book, Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men. In his latest work, Kimmel investigates "Guyland," a new development stage in young men's lives that encompasses the years from 16 to 26, where young men experience a prolonged adolescence filled with excessive partying, promiscuity, and aimlessness.
As some of you might know, I studied Gender studies in university and am a big geek for this kind of stuff. So I was naturally very interested, especially because I think that men as a whole have not had the same opportunity to critically examine their gender and masculinity as women, to some extent, have been able to do through the various feminist, anti-patriarchy, and women's liberation movements.