NOMAS Joined Successful Amicus Brief to Protect Women’s-only Shelters

Court Dismisses Lawsuit Against CA Shelters March 18, 2005 NOMAS joined an amicus brief with California Women’s Law Center in a case, in which a man who claimed to be a domestic violence victim brought an unsuccessful equal protection challenge to state funding for Los Angeles area women-only domestic violence shelters. Serving as a tester […]

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Men’s Studies Association: 12th Annual Meeting

August 10, 2000 – Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO Spreading the Word: Teaching Men’s Studies Beyond the Classroom Christopher Kilmartin, Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, VA ABSTRACT -This workshop will focus on strategies for reaching the male campus population in places other than the classroom. The presenter has participated in several such efforts, including: Gender-aware programming […]

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Men’s Studies Association: 21st Annual Meeting

October 28, 2009 – Portland State University, Portland, OR Males, Masculinity, and Suicide John T. Casey, Ph.D., LCSW, Kaiser Permanente Department of Mental Health, Portland, OR ABSTRACT – Suicide completion in the United States is a public health problem that claims over 30,000 lives annually. Most of these suicide victims are white males who die […]

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Men’s Studies Association: 20th Annual Meeting

August 21, 2008 – University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT Parallels Between Selected Early Feminist Theories and the Fathers’ Rights and the Men’s Rights Branches Ed Barton, Ph.D., J.D., Michigan State University Libraries, East Lansing, MI ABSTRACT- Research indicates that there were some parallels between the early theoretical development of second wave feminist theory […]

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Men’s Studies Association: 19th Annual Meeting

July 6, 2007 – University of Indiana/Purdue University, Indianapolis, IN Invitational Intervention: the ARISE Model. A NIDA Study in Engaging Resistant Substance Abusers in Treatment–Implications of Specific Gender-Related Results Judith Landau, MD, DPM, LMFT, CFLE, President, Linking Human Systems, LLC, and LINC Foundation, Inc. ABSTRACT – The goal of the study was to determine “real […]

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Men’s Studies Association: 18th Annual Meeting

August 4, 2006 – Ramapo College, Mahwah, New Jersey Nonexistent Knights: Men’s Situational Gender Practices in Campus Anti-Rape Organizing Michael Messina-Yauchzy, Ph.D., Keuka College, Keuka Park, NY ABSTRACT -Through both feminist organizing and media magnification, issues of rape grew to a peak of attention on college campuses during the 1980s and 1990s. Anti-rape activists sought […]

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Men’s Studies Association: 17th Annual Meeting

August 4, 2005 – Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia Our “Living Black Manhood”: Malcolm X and Black Feminism: From Clarity to Accountability Ewuare Osayande, Co-founder, P.O.W.E.R., Facilitator, ONUS, Philadelphia, PA ABSTRACT – When the renowned actor Ossie Davis, a man respected for his choice of words, eulogized Malcolm X in 1965, he called him, “our […]

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Men’s Studies Association: 16th Annual Meeting

2004 – San Francisco, CA The Possibility of Men as Peacemakers: Overcoming Men’s Fears Mike Whitty, Ph.D., University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, MI ABSTRACT – Only when men can let go of fear will there be a real basis for world peace and personal healing. This process of healing men’s woundshas a political dimension. Once […]

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Men’s Studies Association: 15th Annual Meeting

August 1, 2003 – University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI Are Men’s Support Groups Repackaged Patriarchy? Edward Barton, Michigan State University ABSTRACT – One of the criticisms of Robert Bly and the mythopoetic branch of the contemporar men’s movement is that they are not pro-feminist and that, in fact, they are anti-feminist. This paper will present […]

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Men’s Studies Association: 14th Annual Meeting

June 7, 2002 – Stony Point, NY Men Have a Long Way to Go…: The Crisis of Masculinity According to the Profeminist, Men’s Rights, and Mythopoetic Men’s Movements John Fox, University of Massachusetts-Amherst. ABSTRACT -Many scholars claim that there is a contemporary crisis of masculinity, in which men are confused as to what it means […]

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