{"title":"Michael Kimmel","description":"\u003cp\u003eMichael Kimmel’s work offers incisive explorations into social dynamics and cultural issues, often focusing on the intersections of gender, politics, and societal change. His writing blends rigorous analysis with compelling narratives that challenge readers to reconsider prevailing attitudes and historical perspectives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect a thoughtful engagement with topics that resonate within \u003cem\u003ePolitics \u0026amp; Current Affairs\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eHistory \u0026amp; Military\u003c\/em\u003e, reflecting on both personal and collective experiences. 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Joe to Popeye, Superman, and Mr. Potato Head, \u003cem\u003ePlaymakers\u003c\/em\u003e reveals how the toy industry created the idealized American childhood: an enchanted world, full of wild creatures and eternal struggles between good and evil, with endless realms of fantasy and beauty. For much of the twentieth century, every part of the American toy business was largely Jewish—the company founders, executives, and designers, as well as the factory workers, wholesale distributors, retail outlets, and armies of salesmen. A descendant of the founders of the Ideal Toy Corporation, Michael Kimmel shows how these poor, often Yiddish-speaking, tenement-dwelling children of immigrants invented a world they never experienced for themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlong with the toys and Jewish toymakers that climbed the ladder of success, Kimmel also portrays the rise of an entire culture focused on children, led by Jewish comic book creators, children's authors, parenting experts, and child psychologists.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe first full-scale toy history of the United States, Kimmel's story conjures the colourful, imaginative, restless spirits who followed the promise of the American Dream—and describes the ways in which the world they came from moulded their beloved creations. \u003cem\u003ePlaymakers\u003c\/em\u003e shows that the overlapping experiences of being a Jew, an immigrant, and a child in twentieth-century America—an outsider looking in, a person desperate to be accepted—created childhood as we know it today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47306926162156,"sku":"9781324105282","price":62.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/ac4786bd1578c7056bb32e33f80fc83b.jpg?v=1771099913"},{"product_id":"healing-from-hate-by-michael-kimmel-9780520292635","title":"Healing from Hate","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBy the time Matthias was in seventh grade, he felt he’d better belong to some group, lest he be alone and vulnerable.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe punks and anarchists were identifiable by their tattoos and hairstyles and music.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eBut it was the skinheads who captured his imagination. They had great parties, and everyone seemed afraid of them. “They really represented what it meant to be a strong man,” he said.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat draws young men into violent extremist groups? What are the ideologies that inspire them to join? And what are the emotional bonds forged that make it difficult to leave, even when they want to?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHaving conducted in-depth interviews with ex–white nationalists and neo-Nazis in the United States, as well as ex-skinheads and ex-neo-Nazis in Germany and Sweden, renowned sociologist Michael Kimmel demonstrates the pernicious effects that constructions of masculinity have on these young recruits. Kimmel unveils how white extremist groups wield masculinity to recruit and retain members—and to prevent them from exiting the movement. Young men in these groups often feel a sense of righteous indignation, seeing themselves as victims, their birthright upended in a world dominated by political correctness. 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