{"id":1633,"date":"2009-05-23T11:54:04","date_gmt":"2009-05-23T16:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=1633"},"modified":"2009-05-23T11:54:04","modified_gmt":"2009-05-23T16:54:04","slug":"boston-author-event-men-and-feminism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2009\/05\/23\/boston-author-event-men-and-feminism\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Author Event: Men and Feminism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shiratarrant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/menandfem_thumbnail1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"left size-medium wp-image-691\" src=\"http:\/\/shiratarrant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/menandfem_thumbnail1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Join Shira Tarrant as she discusses her new book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Men-Feminism-Studies-Shira-Tarrant\/dp\/1580052584\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1243096932&amp;sr=8-1\"><strong>Men and Feminism<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Tuesday, May 26 @ 7:00PM<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Lir Irish Pub, 903 Boylston St., Boston<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">(617) 778-0089<\/p>\n<p>There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no denying that men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s involvement and interest in feminism is key to its continuing relevance and importance. Shira Tarrant, an expert in gender politics, feminism, pop culture, and masculinity, in her new work <strong>Men and Feminism<\/strong>, addresses the question of why men should care about feminism in the first place.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Men and Feminism<\/strong> lays the foundation for a larger discussion about feminism as a human issue, not simply a women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s issue. Men are crucial to the movement \u00e2\u20ac\u201d as fathers, brothers, husbands, boyfriends, and friends. From \u00e2\u20ac\u0153why\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153how\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153what can men do\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, <strong>Men and Feminism<\/strong> answers all the questions men have about how and why they should get behind feminism.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Sponsored by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centerfornewwords.org\/events\/2009\/02\/shira_tarrant.php\">Center for New Words<\/a> and co-sponsored by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomasboston.org\/\">Boston Chapter of NOMAS<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Cross-posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/\">http:\/\/shiratarrant.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join Shira Tarrant as she discusses her new book, Men and Feminism Tuesday, May 26 @ 7:00PM Lir Irish Pub, 903 Boylston St., Boston (617) 778-0089 There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no denying that men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s involvement and interest in feminism is key to its continuing relevance and importance. Shira Tarrant, an expert in gender politics, feminism, pop culture, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1906,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21206,21243,21328,245,1976,876,21577],"class_list":["post-1633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-boston-nomas","tag-center-for-new-words","tag-events","tag-feminism","tag-masculinity","tag-men","tag-men-and-feminism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1906"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}