Conference on Men and Masculinity - July 20-22, 2001

The 26th Conference on Men and Masculinity (M&M26)
University of Denver, Denver, Colorado
July 20-22, 2001

MANifesting Global Justice: Creating Inclusive Communities

The Men and Masculinity conference is the premiere occasion for activists, academics, and any other interested and concerned people to gather, organize, educate and work for social justice and gender equality.

Join NOMAS in Denver for 3 days of workshops, keynotes, cultural events and general discussion on the issues surrounding men and masculinity in the 21st century. Nationally noted speakers and panelists will conduct sessions on topics including fathering, men & spirituality, health & workplace issues, racism, homophobia and more. Three all-day institutes on July 20th will include Ending Men's Violence, Undoing Racism, and the 13th national Men's Studies Association meeting.

For information and registration, including call for presenters please visit us on the web at
www.nomas.org or write us at info@nomas.org

NOMAS
PO Box 455,
Louisville, CO 80027-0455
303-666-7043
Contact Us: info@nomas.org

The National Organization for Men Against Sexism is an activist organization of men and women supporting positive
changes for men. NOMAS advocates a perspective that is pro-feminist, gay-affirmative, anti-racist, and committed to
justice on a broad range of social issues including class, age, religion, and physical abilities. We affirm that working to
make this nation's ideals of equality for all people a reality is the finest expression of what it means to be men.

We believe that the new opportunities becoming available to women and men through the feminist movement will be
beneficial to both. Men can become happier and more fulfilled human beings by challenging the old-fashioned roles of masculinity that embody the assumption of male superiority.

If this sounds interesting to you, please enter our site and learn more about what we are doing and about opportunities
for you to become involved with this exciting and important movement.

Divisions

Men's Studies Association (MSA)
The Men's Studies Association (MSA) is an interdisciplinary division of NOMAS that focuses a feminist-informed
perspective on the ways in which the lives of men and women may be enhanced through critical study of the issues
affecting men and masculinity.

In conjunction with the NOMAS national M&M Conference, the MSA holds an annual meeting that brings together
sociologists, psychologists, anthropologists, mental health workers, and other investigators to present studies and
analyses on the social, cultural, and historical constructs of masculinities and male identity formation.

Ending Men's Violence Network (EMV-Net)
The Ending Men's Violence Network was created by NOMAS to provide an umbrella organization to support domestic
violence, sexual assault and victim assistance groups working in their individual communities. EMV-net offers resources,
training and support that would otherwise be unavailable to local oganizations. Comprised of both men's and women's
anti-violence groups, EMV-net offers additional credibility to the efforts of both on behalf of the common cause of ending
men's violence.

Access Reality TV

NOMAS and the issues of Men & Masculinity are the subjects of a 10 part weekly television series, currently being broadcast on ComCast Cable Network, Channel 73 in Sacramento, California.

These half hour programs are available for broadcast in your area upon request to info@nomas.org, or from the show's producer, Peggy Lucas (see below).

What follows is a summary of the shows that are already completed and available now and the information on how to obtain them and the next five for broadcast in your community.

1. THE TRUTH ABOUT MEN & MASCULINITY

Sharon Billings acts as the host of this program, the first in the series.

Judith Newton, Professor & Director of the U. C. Davis Women's & Gender Studies Department joins Barry Shapiro, Co-Founder and current Co-Chair of NOMAS to discuss NOMAS' four core principles along with how NOMAS differs from other better known men's organizations. The women describe how they felt at the M&M Conferences they have attended. There is a 2-minute clip of the 13th M&M. Holly Near, Sidney Miller, and others appear. Geof Morgan's "For A Change" is the show's theme song.

A lively and fact filled discussion serves as a good introduction to the series.

2. THE TRUTH ABOUT VIOLENCE, PART I

Barry Shapiro, hosts this two part program.

Hamish Sinclair, Founder and Executive Director of ManAlive is joined by Darien Mitchell, a Facilitator in the ManAlive San Francisco Jails program for both parts.

ManAlive is a mandatory batterers intervention program teaching men how to control and eliminate their violence. In the last 20 years it has trained over 40,000 men in the Bay Area alone. Part I explains ManAlive's strategy for de-constructing male violence. Conceptual and training elements of the program are discussed such as, choice at the moment of "fatal peril," male supremacy and the enforced subordination of women, "hitman," and male support for the courage to be non-violent. (These two programs need not be shown in sequence.)

3. THE TRUTH ABOUT VIOLENCE, PART II

Barry Shapiro, hosts the second part of this two part program.

Hamish Sinclair, Founder and Executive Director of ManAlive is joined by

Darien Mitchell, a Facilitator in the ManAlive San Francisco Jails program for Part II as well.

Guests explain how ManAlive differs from "anger management" and therapy approaches to teaching men non-violence. The stages of denial, minimalization, blame, and collusion are identified as are the forms of violence that include verbal, emotional, and physical violence. How objectification of one's partner and the use of their children to manipulate and control are exposed. (While this program is a natural follow-up to Part I, it may be viewed to advantage after Paul Kivel's interview in THE REALITY THAT 'BOYS WILL BE MEN'-program #5 in this series.)

4. THE MADDENING TRUTH ABOUT MEN IN PRISON

Barry Shapiro, hosts this program.

Terry Kupers, M.D. is a psychiatrist and author of Re-Visioning Men's Lives (1994) and Prison Madness (1999). He has appeared in numerous trials as an expert witness on prisons and prisoner's mental health.

Dr. Kupers vividly depicts how the prison system reflects and exaggerates the hierarchies and dynamics of men in society in general. He describes the inhumane treatment of maximum security inmates, the impact on mental health, prison rape, crime after release, and recidivism. Arguing that it is as if prisons were programmed for failure, the prisons extend the systemic exclusion of men of color from society and their families with all the predictable consequences. (Fact-filled, frighteningly fascinating.)

5. THE REALITY THAT 'BOYS WILL BE MEN'

Barry Shapiro, hosts this program.

Paul Kivel, is a violence prevention educator and the author of several books, among which are: Men's Work (1992), Uprooting Racism (1996), and Boys Will Be Men (1999).

In a warm and animated discussion, Paul describes contemporary men's "isolation, alienation, and frustration." Drawing on concepts and themes from all three of his books, he describes the coercive power of societal male roles. Using his model of the "Act-like-a-man!-box," he explains how male roles feed on and further homophobia, male supremacist ideology, and a diminished ability to feel. Stating that "One can't discuss gender without discussing race and class," Paul asks parents if they are "raising their children to make a difference?" Two questions that parents ought to ask themselves about their children are: What do they stand for? and Who do they stand with? (Contrasting the concepts of collusion and being allies, reference is made to Hamish Sinclair's appearance on a previous program.)

6. HOMOPHOBIA: FACT OVER FICTION

Barry Shapiro hosts this insightful thought-provoking conversation about hatred and violence against gays.

Martin Rogers, Psychology Professor, teaches a college course at UC Sacramento on "Homosexuality".

Dr. Rogers explains the various levels or degrees of homophobia from repulsion or revulsion, past pity, to tolerance, rather than to actual acceptance. "Tolerance is a gift that someone with power gives to someone without power", according to Dr. Rogers. Examples provided by Rogers illustrate current theories and research studies about the causes of homophobia. Some ways to "interrupt" expressions of homophobia in a social situation are discussed while the risks associated with such intervention are also addressed. Dr. Rogers provides poignant examples how homophobia can deprive many male- to- male relationships of the symbolic bonds of affection.

We believe that goals of NOMAS are advanced by the programs' high production quality as well as the social and intellectual contributions of the guests. On-screen access information for NOMAS and the M&M Conferences appear in each program. They are also designed to be used to show to your local community access cable station to encourage them to agree to broadcast them.

To receive broadcast quality tapes (SVHS or ²") of each of the programs in the series, obtain an agreement from your local community access cable station to broadcast them. Send that agreement/request to: Peggy Lucas, Producer

Access Reality Foundation P.O. Box 812 Fair Oaks, CA 95628
contact her at AccessRealty@webtv.net

BROTHER is the official newsletter of the National Organization for Men Against Sexism. The issue below is the
Special Silver Anniversary Edition which contains the extracts from the 12th Annual Men's Studies Association
Meeting presentations. The Winter 2000 issue has been distributed to the membership in hard copy and will be
available on this site shortly. It is currently being reissued as a special pre-conference advertising piece and can be
requested by email to info@nomas.org or by calling 303-666-7043. The Spring 2001 issue will be distributed to
the membership by the end of March, 2001. The Winter 1999 issue is available in the archives section. Older issues will be
added to the archives soon.

Special Silver Anniversary Edition

Introduction to the 12th Annual Men's Studies
Association Meeting
David Greene, PhD, Ramapo College, MSA Co-chair

Gender--role Conflict & Psychological Well--Being: An
Exploration in Men Enrolled to Attend an "Initiatory
Weekend"
Christopher Burke, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Friendship Among White Middleclass Males
Don Levy, University of Connecticut

Double Injustice: Sex and the Crisis in Childcare
Employment.
Stephanie Chastain, PhD, University of Washington

Adolescent Fathers
Candan Duran-Aydintug, PhD
Susan Wigington
Adam Brittain
University of Colorado, Denver

Mothers and Sons: Feminism, Masculinity and the
Struggle to Raise our Sons
Andrea O'Reilly, PhD, York University, Ontario, CA

Spreading the Word: Teaching Men's Studies Beyond the
Classroom Christopher Kilmartin, PhD, Mary Washington
College

Tufts University Men Against Violence: A Study in
Personal Activism & the Importance of Vulnerability in
Men's Organizations
Zev Schuman, Tufts University

Male "Insecurity" and Violence?
Sarah Hautzinger, PhD, Colorado College

Traumatized by Other Men: Pain and Healing Among
Survivors of Sexual Abuse by Professionals
Estelle Disch, PhD, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Interrogating Corporate Cultural Hegemony: Racial and
Gender Coded Discourses of Identity, Work and Social
Control
Brian Klocke, Colorado University, Boulder

Evolution and Male Homosexuality: The 'Gay Gene,'
Male Femininity and a Few Other Good Reasons Why
Men Have Sex with Men
Stephen Forssell, University of Denver