Men Speak Out: Views on Gender, Sex, and Power

This is a great collection of feminist men writing on gender equality. These essays were meant to be personal and anecdotal, certainly not scholarly.

There is a wide range of topics covered, and there are essays in particular that really stand out. My favorite essay was early in the collection, written by the man who created the film BEYOND BEATS AND RHYMES. It was a fantastic essay about him filming and doing research about people of color and how as a whole women are treated. His essay was about what he observed at the BET Spring Break and what the implications of what he observed.

I LOVED this book, but it's too bad that getting one's hands on a copy is not an easy task.

A book of essays on feminism written by men. I was a bit annoyed to find this book on the syllabus for a women and gender studies course - in general, we hear far too many men's voices in our society, drowning out the voices of women, and it seemed that we could at least avoid this dynamic in a WGS course. However, many of the essays were very interesting and insightful, and I am glad that our instructor included this on our reading list. (A few of the authors clearly don't "get" feminism, but a surprisingly large number of them did).

I read a lot of feminist books written by women, so it was interesting to get a male take on gender issues.