Brown Club of Greater Miami
Miami, Florida, United States
February 29 2020, 2:00 PM Eastern Standard Time
- Location
- Center for Social Change
- 2103 Coral Way
- Miami, FL 33145
- USA
- Cost
| Admission for one guest | $20 |
Join us on Saturday, February 29 for an engaging discussion at the Center for Social Change on Coral Way. The cost of admission is $20 and includes refreshments and light bites.
Professor Gutmann will join us to discuss his new book Are Men Animals?: How Modern Masculinity Sells Men Short. Gutmann's highly anticipated and timely new work explores the topic of toxic masculinity on a global scale. Through his anthropological research of "maleness" and "masculinity" in various cultures and countries, Gutmann demonstrates the complexity of gender by tackling the prevailing myths such as the role of testosterone and its relation to violence. Gutmann convincingly argues that assessing maleness means looking beyond biology, since biology alone cannot explain these variabilities. "Biological extremism about men and boys is nonsense," he writes, stressing that the expression "boys will be boys" gives males a free pass to engage in bad behavior.
Matthew Gutmann is Professor of Anthropology, Director of the Brown International Advanced Research Institutes, and Faculty Fellow at the Watson Institute. Most of his ethnographic research has been conducted in Mexico, where he is a visiting professor at Colegio de México, and China, where he is a visiting professor at Nanjing University. He has also conducted collaborative research on United Nations Peacekeepers in Haiti and Lebanon. From 2009 to 2013, he was Vice President for International Affairs at Brown, leading the University’s efforts to build collaborations and exchanges with leading institutions around the world and major programs relevant to internationalization. Gutmann has a Master’s in Public Health, and in 2008 he won the Eileen Basker Memorial Award for the best scholarly study on gender and health. He has also been a visiting professor in China, France, Mexico, and Spain. Gutmann’s undergraduate major was modern and classical Chinese.
Professor Gutmann's book, Are Men Animals? is available for sale online here.