How Men's Movement Participants View Each other

@article{Fox2004HowMM,
  title={How Men's Movement Participants View Each other},
  author={John Fox},
  journal={The Journal of Men's Studies},
  year={2004},
  volume={12},
  pages={103 - 118}
}
  • J. Fox
  • Published 1 March 2004
  • Sociology, Psychology
  • The Journal of Men's Studies
This study compares the opinions of men's movements' participants of each other. Nineteen profeminist, 17 men's rights, and 18 mythopoetic activists returned surveys. Overall, the respondents had little awareness of each other. The profeminist and men's rights respondents had negative views of each other, while the pro-feminists were more familiar with the mythopoetic men's issues than with men's rights issues. Further, profeminist respondents were split regarding their opinions of the… 
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