Kimmel, Michael S(cott)

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KIMMEL, Michael S(cott)

KIMMEL, Michael S(cott). American, b. 1951. Genres: Sociology, Politics/Government. Career: Bryant College, Smithfield, RI, instructor in sociology, 1973; State University of New York College at Oneonta, instructor in sociology, 1973-74; University of California at Berkeley, instructor in sociology, 1974-76; University of California at Santa Cruz, visiting lecturer, 1977-81; Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, assistant professor of sociology, 1982-86; State University of New York at Stony Brook, professor of sociology, 1987-; editor and writer. Publications: Absolutism and Its Discontent: State and Society in Seventeenth-Century France and England, 1988; (author of intro) Mundus Foppensis/The Levellers, 1988; Revolution: A Sociological Interpretation, 1990; Manhood in America: A Cultural History, 1996. EDITOR: Changing Men: New Directions in Research on Men and Masculinity, 1987; (with M.A. Messner) Men's Lives, 1989; Love Letters between a Certain Late Nobleman and the Famous Mr. Wilson, 1990; Men Confront Pornography, 1990; (with T.E. Mosmiller) Against the Tide: "Pro-Feminist" Men in the United States, 1776-1990, a Documentary History, 1992; The Politics of Manhood: Profeminist Men Respond to the Mythopoetic Men's Movement (and Mythopoetic Leaders Answer), 1995. Contributor of articles and reviews to periodicals. Address: Department of Sociology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794, U.S.A.