Men's liberation
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Men's liberation is a stream of the modern men's movement. It holds that men are hurt by the male gender role and patriarchy and that men's lives are alienating, unhealthy and impoverished.
They are often sympathetic to feminism, but unlike pro-feminist men seeks to emancipate men in like manner to which women were liberated by the feminist movement.
They believe that men are overworked, trained to kill or be killed, brutalised and subjected to blame and shame. They give attention to the damage, isolation and suffering inflicted on boys and men through their socialisation into manhood.
They may seek ways to liberate men and have sympathy with profeminism.
Activities
- Men's support groups
- Therapy and counselling
- Involvement in public advocacy and efforts on issues of men's health and boys' education.
Streams in the men's movement
- Fathers' rights
- Gay rights
- Masculism
- Men's rights
- *List of men's rights organizations
- Mythopoetic movement
- Pro-feminist men
See also
- Affirmative action
- Feminism
- *Feminist movement
- Gay rights
- Gender role
- Homophobia
- Liberation
- Masculinity
- Masculine psychology
- Men's health
- Men's studies
- Patriarchy
- Pro-feminism
- Radical Faeries
- Sexism
Significant pro-feminist writers
- Steve Biddulph author of Manhood and Raising boys
- Don Edgar
- Warren Farrell (pre-1985)
- Herb Goldberg
- Jack Nichols
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