{"id":3280,"date":"2017-08-25T11:56:14","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T15:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/feminist\/?p=3280"},"modified":"2017-08-25T11:56:14","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T15:56:14","slug":"harry-brod-1951-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/feminist\/2017\/08\/25\/harry-brod-1951-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Brod, 1951-2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

Originally published in the USC Dornsife Gender Studies Program<\/a> Newsletter, August 24, 2017.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The USC Gender Studies Program mourns the loss of one of our founding colleagues Harry Brod, Professor of Sociology and the Humanities at the University of Northern Iowa, who died on June 16<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n

After taking his PhD in philosophy at the University of California, San Diego in 1981 Brod joined the faculty at USC where, between 1982 and 1987, he helped to shape The Program for the Study of Women and Men in Society (SWMS, later changed to the Gender Studies Program.) At a time when women\u2019s studies programs were proliferating nationally, Brod\u2019s influence helped to make USC\u2019s SWMS a unique and groundbreaking program, purposefully including \u201cmen\u201d in the both the program title and curriculum.<\/p>\n

Harry Brod\u2019s local efforts at USC reflected a broader national and international scholarly project that Brod helped to inaugurate: the interdisciplinary field of feminist studies of men and masculinities. Two books edited by Brod were foundational in this effort: The Making of Masculinites<\/em><\/a> (1987) and Theorizing Masculinities<\/em><\/a> (1994). Throughout his career, Harry Brod made important contributions to scholarly thinking on the intersections of masculinities with race and ethnicity, including two books that focused on the experiences of Jewish men\u2014A Mensch Among Men<\/em><\/a> (1988) and Brother Keepers<\/em><\/a> (2010)\u2014and a study of white male anti-racism allies, White Men Challenging Racism<\/em><\/a> (2003). Brod\u2019s most recent book, published in 2012, reflected his longstanding fascination with the historical significance of comic books: Superman Is Jewish? <\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

It is difficult to over-state the importance and depth of Harry Brod\u2019s foundational contributions to men\u2019s engagements with feminism, both academic and movement-based. Brod\u2019s careful and insightful thinking\u2014grounded in his expertise in Hegelian philosophy and in his ethical commitment to feminism and social justice\u2014was expressed in a lifetime of work as a scholar-activist. Brod\u2019s contributions as a public intellectual included many short newsletter or magazine articles, and in recent years, frequent presentations of \u201cAsking For It: The Ethics & Erotics of Sexual Consent,\u201d a lecture<\/a> now available as an educational film<\/a>. Brod\u2019s USC friends, colleagues and students were forever touched by the ways that he joined strength of intellect, a passion for social justice and a kind and gentle demeanor. In memory of Brod, the Gender Studies Program made a donation to the Harry Brod Masculinities Studies Collection at St. Norbert College.<\/p>\n

— Mike Messner, USC Gender Studies & Sociology Faculty<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Originally published in the USC Dornsife Gender Studies Program Newsletter, August 24, 2017. The USC Gender Studies Program mourns the loss of one of our founding colleagues Harry Brod, Professor of Sociology and the Humanities at the University of Northern Iowa, who died on June 16. After taking his PhD in philosophy at the University […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1958,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/feminist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/feminist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/feminist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/feminist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1958"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/feminist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3280"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/feminist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3283,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/feminist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3280\/revisions\/3283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/feminist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/feminist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/feminist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}