“There was a lot of good research in women’s studies. “It was probably my sense of fairness,” Young said in a telephone interview from Victoria, where she and her husband have lived the past three years and where she continues to study Hinduism as an associate with the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society. RELATED: Movember pioneers battle against male suicide, depressionĪbusers diminish legitimate male issues: Gary Mason Why did a respected Hinduism scholar - who travelled to India almost every year of her four-decade career while collaborating with major figures such as Mircea Eliade, Harold Coward and Arvind Sharma - take on the cause of countering the negative stereotyping of men and boys? Titled Replacing Misandry: A Revolutionary History, it explains how technological advances have harmed men and boys, reducing the value of physicality. The fourth book in their misandry series, which is again being published by risk-taking McGill-Queen’s University Press, will soon be released. While Young remains leery of the spotlight, she and McGill University colleague Paul Nathanson have found themselves in the past 15 years at the incendiary forefront of exposing a trend in North America - the sexist counterpart of misogyny, which they call “misandry.” Men’s experiences were denounced and silenced by what she calls “ideological feminists,” whom she distinguishes from “equality feminists.” Now associated with the University of Victoria after a distinguished career at McGill University in Montreal, Young had engaged in her own feminist research while studying at the University of Chicago and Harvard - because she’s a firm believer in equality of the sexes.īut Young began feeling “pushed” when a powerful arm of feminism took an ominous turn - toward gender superiority and a double standard. Katherine Young isn’t in the habit of picking fights.īut the 70-year-old Hinduism specialist didn’t like what she witnessed in the 1990s when a hard-edged stream of feminist scholarship started gaining traction as conventional thinking in higher education and popular culture. Vancouver Sun Run: Sign up & event info.
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