Female Porn Director Explains Male Insecurities about Women in a New Book
Pasadena, California (PRWEB) September 01, 2015 -- Award-winning adult film director and gender academic, Dr Anna Arrowsmith interviewed dating men and pick-up artists about their experiences of female beauty, women’s emotions, fertility, female violence and sexual assault. She explores these issues alongside men’s bodily concerns, including penis issues, as well as their relationships with other men, documenting how the power balance between men and women is changing.
Arrowsmith’s work provides an entirely new way to understand the changing power relationships between men and women in contemporary Western society. It comes at a time when Elliot Rodger murdered six people in Isla Vista, California, blaming his actions on women’s rejections; when Amazon has been the centre of a campaign to stop selling men’s rights activist Roosh V’s books; when hundreds of thousands of people worldwide have successfully prevented pick- up artist trainer, Julian Blanc from entering many countries; when campaigns about equality and sexism such as #everydaysexism #notallmen and Emma Watson’s HeForShe are gaining greater momentum; when the term ‘mansplaining’ is being used with greater frequency and opposition to men’s rights activists and pick-up artists have grown significantly in recent months.
Her findings challenge traditional feminist arguments as well as those from men’s rights activists and encourage an entirely new path of enquiry in gender studies which positions men’s words as central to interpreting their behaviour. She argues that whilst many anti-feminist arguments can be hyperbolic this does not deny that a greater understanding of men’s insecurities and psychological experiences is paramount if we are to achieve gender equality.
Some key findings:
• Around half of the men have experienced female violence and coerced/non-consensual sex.
• The men did not prefer stereotypically beautiful women; they all had various tastes, which they assumed made them the odd one out in comparison to men generally inc. male friends.
• The majority thought women were the more intimidating sex and half felt women had most of the power in dating relationships.
• The men focus on managing situations or blaming women for them, instead of admitting victimhood, understanding this is the key to changing gender relations.
• Most of the men felt that women gained power when performing sexually in the media and they often saw women or other people as the intended audience, not themselves.
Rethinking Misogyny: Men’s Perceptions of Female Power in Dating Relationships by Dr Anna Arrowsmith is published by Ashgate Publishing on 1st September 2015 and is available in hardback, EBook PDF and Ebook ePUB. ISBN: 9781472463517. The introduction is available free at: http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781472463517
Contact Anna at Anna(at)easyote(dot)co.uk +447958 539706
More information about the author, including photos and videos can be found at http://www.annaarrowsmith.com
Dr Anna Arrowsmith, Endurance Media, http://www.annaarrowsmith.com, +44 7958 539706, [email protected]
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