Shira Tarrant
What: Men & Feminism
Who: Shira Tarrant
When: New York, Boston, DC – October 14-22, 2009; Minnesota & Midwest – Nov 2009; Southeast – November 2009; other areas TBA in 2009 and 2010
Where: United States and Canada
Website: Shira Tarrant
PRESS INQUIRIES: Jen; 510-910-5627
.There’s no denying that men’s involvement and interest in feminism is the key to its continuing relevance and importance. Addressing 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 need to know about how and why they should get behind feminism.
In addition to direct readings from Men and Feminism or her previous books, Shira talks on a wide variety of topics, both in a straight lecture format and in a more interactive “town hall” format, including:
- Pornography and masculinity — Shira doesn’t present a porn-is-bad, end-of-convo kind of argument, but instead discusses some of the complexities of the issue
- Masculinity and pop culture — hypermasculinity issues as well as the new man-as-kidult theme
- Violence and sexual assault as men’s issues — how and why it’s a men’s issue, and what’s being done by men in terms of prevention
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Shira Tarrant is an expert in gender politics, feminism, pop culture, and masculinity. She is also the author of When Sex Became Gender (Routledge) and editor of the provocative anthology Men Speak Out: Views on Gender, Sex and Power (Routledge). She is currently co-editing Fashion Talks: Undressing the Power of Style (forthcoming).
Shira’s 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.
Shira is the column editor for “The Man Files” at the popular blog Girl With Pen. She is a frequent invited speaker at college campuses and other public venues, and is quoted widely in print, television, radio and online media.
Shira grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, and lives in Southern California, where she teaches in the women’s studies department at California State University, Long Beach. She has a PhD in political science from UCLA and fond memories of lounging on the grass in the campus sculpture garden.
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