Presentation of my research at the American Studies Symposium at Purdue University, 2011.

1. “MEN ON
THE ROPES”
THE SUCCESSES AND FAILURES OF MEN’S
COUNTERCULTURAL CONSCIOUSNESS-RAISING
IN ROLLING STONE , 1975
Kera Lovell, AMST Symposium at Purdue University

3. “Across the country, hundreds of men have joined groups that
hold monthly or weekly „consciousness-raising‟ rap sessions,
discussions in which they air their anxieties and strive for better
understanding of women – and themselves. The movement is
spreading especially on college campuses and in radical
communities….”
Time, 1971

4. DEFINING THE MEN’S MOVEMENT
• Young (25-40) white men
• Ties to other social/political
activism: New Left, feminism
• Methodology: CR, social
activism
• Ideology: questioning “the
male sex role” as
breadwinner, sexually
dominant, homophobic, hyper
masculine, unemotional
Berkeley Men‟s Center protest at
Playboy club in 1971, Life

6. LOSS OF BROTHERHOOD

7. Ali in Rolling Stone, 39

8. OBSESSION WITH SEXUAL
PERFORMANCE

9. Cleaver ad in Rolling Stone, 65

10. CRITIQUING “THE MALE SEX ROLE”

12. REIMAGINING MASCULINITY