Michael Kimmel

Professor of Sociology, State University of New York-Stony Brook

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Professor of Sociology at SUNY Stony Brook and author of Manhood in America: A Cultural History

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In his most recent book “Angry White Men: American Masculinity at the end of an Era” Stonybrook University emeritus professor Michael Kimmel addresses how our notions of manhood have…

The notion of what it means to be a man is beginning to change

In his most recent book “Angry White Men: American Masculinity at the end of an Era” Stonybrook University emeritus professor Michael Kimmel addresses how our notions of manhood have…

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