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Using a range of in-depth historical case studies, this timely work excavates the oft-forgotten tradition of progressive populism and highlights the relevance of such movements to our own tumultuous times.
List of contents
1. Populism Left and Right 2. “Combustible Material”: Artisanal Virtue Among the Levellers 3. “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”: The Sans-Culottes in the Sections of Revolutionary Paris 4. Serfs Up: The Countryside Strikes Back 5. The Aesthetics of Producerism: The Arts and Crafts Movement in the United States and Britain 6. Ethnicity as Peoplehood: Populism Against the Nation-State 7. “Oligarchs, Tremble!”: Progressive Populism Goes South Epilogue: Progressive Populism Today and Tomorrow
About the author
Michael Kimmel is SUNY Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies Emeritus at Stony Brook University, New York, USA, where he founded the Center for the Study of Men and Masculinities. His research interests encompass gender studies, social movements, and historical sociology. He is the author of numerous books including Revolution: A Sociological Interpretation (1990), Manhood in America: A Cultural History (1996), Angry White Men: American Masculinity at the End of an Era (2013), Healing from Hate: How Young Men Get Into – and Out of – Violent Extremism (2017), The Gendered Society (Sixth Edition, 2016), and the best-seller Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men (2008). He is also the founder and former Editor of the scholarly journal Men and Masculinities.
Summary
Using a range of in-depth historical case studies, this timely work excavates the oft-forgotten tradition of progressive populism and highlights the relevance of such movements to our own tumultuous times.
