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Jackson Katz, Ph.D., is an educator, author, and social theorist who is internationally renowned for his pioneering scholarship and activism on issues of gender, race and violence. He has long been a major figure and thought leader in the growing global movement of men working to promote gender equality and prevent gender violence.
He is co-founder of Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP), one of the longest-running and most widely influential gender violence prevention programs in North America, and the first major program of its kind in the sports culture and the military. MVP introduced the “bystander” approach to the sexual assault and relationship abuse fields; Katz is a key architect of this now broadly popular strategy.
He is the author of two critically acclaimed books, "The Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women and How all Men Can Help", and "Man Enough? Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and the Politics of Presidential Masculinity".
He has published numerous academic and journalistic articles on topics as far-ranging as the social justice and feminist roots of the bystander approach to sexual assault prevention, the powerful role of athletics in gender violence prevention, the gender and sexual politics of Eminem’s songs, the gender politics of conservative talk radio, violent white masculinity in advertising, juvenile detention, pornography, and sports metaphors in presidential politics.
He is creator, lead writer and narrator of the award-winning Tough Guise videos. He lectures and trains widely in the U.S. and around the world on the imperative of men’s leadership in the promotion of gender equity and the prevention of gender violence, and the many intersections in this work among gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity and religion.
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My Gun's Bigger Than Yours: Images of Manhood and Violence in the Media
Drink Like A Man
Boys to Men: Challenges and Changes in the 21st Century
Men, Masculinities and Media
Violence and Silence
Bad Boys and Bystanders
Taking It Personally: Why Gender Violence is an Issue for Men
Men, Women, Sex and Violence
Tough Guise
More Than A Few Good Men
The Macho Paradox: why some men hurt women and how all men can help
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