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Masculism is a range of social movements, political movements, and ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes. Masculism incorporates the position that societies prioritize women, and treat men as disposable within those societies. Efforts to change that include fighting against gender stereotypes and establishing educational, professional, legal, and domestic resources and outcomes for men that are equal to those for women.
History[edit]
Terminology[edit]
The earliest usage of masculism dates back to the late 19th century.[1]
According to the historian Judith Allen, Charlotte Perkins Gilman coined the term masculism in 1914,[2] when she gave a public lecture series in New York entitled "Studies in Masculism". Allen writes that Gilman used masculism to refer to describe "men's collective political and cultural actions on behalf of their own sex",[3] or what Allen calls the "sexual politics of androcentric cultural discourses".[4] Gilman referred to men and women who opposed women's suffrage as masculists—women who collaborated with these men were "Women Who Won't Move Forward"[5]—and described World War I as "masculism at its worst".[6][additional citation(s) needed]
In response to the lecture, W. H. Sampson wrote in a letter to the New York Times that women must share the blame for war: "It is perfectly useless to pretend that men have fought, struggled and labored for themselves, while women have stayed at home, wishing they wouldn't, praying before the shrines for peace, and using every atom of their influence to bring about a holy calm."[7][8][relevant?]
Movements and ideologies[edit]
Radical masculinism[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "Definition of Masculism". Lexico. Retrieved July 28, 2021.
- ^ Allen, Judith A. (2009). The Feminism of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Sexualities, Histories, Progressivism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 353.
- ^ Allen 2009, p. 152.
- ^ Allen 2009, p. 353.
- ^ Allen 2009, pp. 136–137.
- ^ Allen 2009, p. 127.
- ^ Sampson, W. H. (3 April 1914). "Not All Man's Fault". The New York Times. p. 10.
- ^ Leary, Andrea M. (2005). "Charlotte Perkins Gilman as a Master of Audience: Newspaper Reviewers Expose a Radical Lecturer". Resources for American Literary Study. 30: (216–235), 224. JSTOR 26366994.