Harry Brod

Harry Brod (February 1, 1951 – June 16, 2017) was a professor of sociology at University of Northern Iowa.^[1]

Education

He held a PhD in Philosophy, 1981, from the University of California, San Diego.^[2]

Men's studies

Brod was one of the first academics to specialize in men's studies. Brod became interested in the men's movement in the mid-1960s, as he thought about society's expectations of individuals based on their gender.

About 1980, while working on his doctorate at the

Brod was hired as interim director of the new Women’s and Gender Studies Department at Kenyon College in the early 1990s. Despite being assured during the hiring process that his gender was not an issue, the appointment of a man was very controversial.^[4]

As a man of the left, I’ve been attacked from the right. Here, also, I’ve been attacked from the left, as a male. Completely isolated, no structure, no connection. Under fire. Incredible.^[4]

Publications

Author

• Brod, Harry (1992). Hegel's philosophy of politics: idealism, identity, and modernity. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press.
  ISBN 978-0-8133-8317-0
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• Brod, Harry (2012). Superman is Jewish? : how comic book superheroes came to serve truth, justice, and the Jewish-American way. New York: Free Press.
  ISBN 978-1-4165-9530-4
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• Brod, Harry, ed. (2014). The making of masculinities: the new men's studies. London: Routledge.
  ISBN 978-1-138-82829-2
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• Brod, Harry, ed. (1988). A Mensch among men: explorations in Jewish masculinity. Freedom, Calif.: Crossing Press.
  ISBN 978-0-89594-265-4
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• Brod, Harry;
  ISBN 978-0-8039-4904-1
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• Brod, Harry; Zevit, Shawn, eds. (2010). Brother keepers: new perspectives on Jewish masculinity. Harriman, Tenn.:
  ISBN 978-1-931342-27-8
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• Brod, Harry (2015) [first published 1990]. "Pornography and the alienation of male sexuality". In
  ISBN 978-0-8476-8257-7
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