The Macho Paradox, Jackson Katz
The Macho Paradox, Jackson Katz
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The Macho Paradox
Why Some Men Hurt Women and How All Men Can Help

Author: Jackson Katz

Narrator: Adam Lofbomm

Unabridged: 13 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/08/2019

Synopsis

Revised and updated to include current studies, politics, and discussions, The Macho Paradox is the first book to show how violence against women is a male issue as well as a female one—and how we can come together to stop it.

Written by pioneering anti-violence educator Jackson Katz, The Macho Paradox incorporates the voices and experiences of women and men who have confronted the problem from all angles, the discussions surrounding currents events in politics and pop-culture, and where the violence is ignored or encouraged in our upbringing. Katz also offers cogent explanations for why so many men harass and hurt women, and he shows what can be done to stop the violence.

By working together as allies, Katz shows how all genders can end the abuse and mistreatment of women.

About Jackson Katz

Jackson Katz has long been a major figure and thought leader in the growing global movement of men working to promote gender equality and prevent gender violence. He is cofounder of the multiracial, mixed-gender Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) program, one of the longest-running and most widely influential gender violence prevention programs in North America, and the first major program of its kind in sports culture and the military. Katz is one of the early architects of the "bystander" approach to prevention. He is the creator of the award-winning Tough Guise video series and author of numerous articles, as well as Man Enough?: Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and the Politics of Presidential Masculinity. His TEDx talk, "Violence against Women-It's a Men's Issue," has been viewed more than four million times. An acclaimed public speaker, Katz has delivered thousands of lectures and conducted trainings in all fifty states, eight Canadian provinces, and on every continent except Antarctica.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jerzy on September 10, 2007

Guys, please, read this book. It will give you lots to think about regarding some problems with our society's ideals about what it means to be a "real man." AND it's uplifting - unlike many books complaining about society's problems, Jackson Katz actually gives reasonable, concrete suggestions about......more

Goodreads review by Dario on September 05, 2020

As a man who was taught to respect women long before reading this book, it is my responsibility to make the world a safer place for them. This book by Jackson Katz might have been uncomfortable at times, but it nevertheless hit home that if we want to eradicate violence against women, then it has to......more

Goodreads review by Worthless on June 26, 2009

Jackson Katz gives us a work tackling the pernicious consequences of male gender socialization, the most serious of which is, clearly, male violence. And if you dispute this, I'll validate my manhood by taking a macho hyper-masculine posture and start fucking hitting people. Being the first feminist......more

Goodreads review by Melissa on February 10, 2018

The 2006 nonfiction book, "The Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women and How All Men Can Help," by Jackson Katz, is one of the most difficult and important books I've ever read. It took me a long time to finish these pages. Jackson Katz is a good writer and his book is packed with insight and infor......more

Goodreads review by Andrew on July 22, 2014

**This is an ongoing review as I read on** Jackson Katz sets the tone of his subject in the preface of The Macho Paradox by recounting an interactive exercise that he demonstrates to university students, where he asks, first men, then women, "What steps do you take on a daily basis to prevent yoursel......more

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