The Men's Movement

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This paper discusses how the men's movement is a social movement that focuses primarily on issues involving gender identity, gender role, and the overall rights of men in respect to child access and marriage and how some of the most significant movements acknowledged within the men's movement are men's health, men's liberation, male rape victims, and pro-feminism. The paper specifically focuses on Joseph Campbell's work in the field of comparative mythology which is known as the mythopoetic men's movement and looks at how Robert Bly is its core leader. The paper also examines how Bly, along with authors Michael J. Meade and Robert L. Moore, conduct the mythopoetic men's movement through an assortment of workshops and self-help groups.

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"In a PBS documentary collaborated with Bill Moyers in 1990 (called "A Gathering of Man"), Robert Bly offered his insight on the "Wild Man," in which he referred to as the inner masculine validity that was disoriented during the Industrial Revolution. He suggested that when fathers began distancing themselves emotionally and physically from their families (by working extensive shifts at factories every day) their sons - especially - were left with a sentiment of abandonment and without the emotional security of the fathers that was desired. According to Bly, the younger generation lost the opportunity to learn lessens of manhood which in the long run caused them to lose a sense of male identity. "

Sample of Sources Used:

• Bly, Robert. Iron John: a Book about Men. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2004.
• Keen, Sam. Fire in the Belly: on Being a Man. New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1991.
• Rowan, John. "Fire in the Belly: on Being a Man." Achilles Heel Radical Men's Magazine 1992. 18 Apr. 2008 <http://www.achillesheel. freeuk.com/br13_02.html>.
• Zakrzewski, Paul. "Daddy, What Did You Do in the Men's Movement?" The Boston Globe 19 June 2005. 18 Apr. 2008 <http://www.boston.com/ news/globe/ideas/articles/2005/06/19/daddy_what_did_you_do_in_the_mens_movement/?page=3>.

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