Good Guys, Bad Guys

Emily K. Carian is Assistant Professor of Teaching in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. She is co-editor of Male Supremacism in the United States: From Patriarchal Traditionalism to Misogynist Incels and the Alt-Right.

"Emily Carian intelligently explores the differences between feminist men and men's rights activists regarding their conception of gender inequality/equality. And with keen insight Carian uniquely extends the analysis by examining their similarity in terms of 'privilege renegotiation strategies,' whereby both groups of men practice distinct yet morally inflexible masculine identities. Engaging, original, and theoretically incisive, Good Guys, Bad Guys moves the discussion of men's relationship with gender activism to a new level of sophistication. I highly recommend it." * James W. Messerschmidt, author of Hegemonic Masculinity: Formulation, Reformulation, and Amplification * "Good Guys, Bad Guys is a landmark text on U.S. men's gender politics. Through in-depth interviews with feminist men and men's rights activists, Carian finds strategies across the gender-political divide examining how they engage with, understand, and seek to "renegotiate" privilege. She shows that the identity work in which these men are engaged comes with consequences that are sometimes at odds with some of their professed politics. Good Guys, Bad Guys helps us understand why gender inequality is so pernicious and persistent-it is inscribed onto our identities and shapes the ways we define ourselves and our gender politics." * Tristian Bridges, co-author of Exploring Masculinities: Identity, Inequality, Continuity, and Change *