Literary Review #4

I am doing this literary review on the book by Michael Kimmel entitled Guyland:

1) Visual:












2) Citation:

Kimmel, Matt. Guyland the Perilous World Where Boys Become Men. new york new york, Harper Collins, 2008.

3) I am only reading two sections of the book. The first section is about guys and sexual assault and the second section is about status and gang rape.

4) Michael Kimmel is a professor of sociology and a leading scholar in the field of gender studies. He teaches at State University of New York. He also is a lecturer on many college campuses and even has lectured abroad.

5) Key terms:

Peer Pressure: When your friends force you into doing something you dont necessarily want to do. 

Gang Rape: An act of sex by mutiple men at the same time

6) Quotes:

1) "Peer pressure was a factor for 10.9 percent of the men but only .6 percent of the women" (Kimmel 225)

2) "Its a staple of adolescent male lore, but I suspect it was so incomprehensible to me because it was simply impossible to fathom that a bunch of guys could stand in line, with erections, waiting their turn to have sex with a girl who actually wanted to have sex with all of them" (Kimmel 237)

3) Some argue that sexual exploitation is a masculine trait, that men are hardwired from millennia of evolution to try and get over on someone for personal gain" (Kimmel 226) 

7) This source is important to my paper because it addresses and gives examples of the issue with sexual assault with male perpetrators. As well as give insight into the issues with gang rape and how it affects the psyche of many males.