Warren Farrell
Sign in to saveAlso known as Warren Thomas Farrell, Dr. Warren Farrell
author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 16
Top works
- So Once Was I
- Role Mate to Soul Mate
- The Myth of Male Power
- The liberated man
- A Return to Eros
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 33
- Total plays
- 128
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Basic local alignment search tool
· 1990 · cited 80,783x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,382x
- The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)
· 2016 · cited 23,599x
- Array programming with NumPy
· 2020 · cited 23,369x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,822x
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Quotes
- “Was it possible for the sexes to hear each other without saying, My powerlessness is greater than your powerlessness? It was becoming obvious each sex had a unique experience of both power and powerlessness. In my mind's eye I began to visualize a listening matrix as a framework within which we could hear these different experiences. It looked like this:”
- “As I looked more carefully at the listening matrix I saw that during the past twenty years we had taken a magnifying glass to the first of these four quadrants, the female experience of powerlessness. I saw I was subconsciously making a false assumption: The more deeply I understood women's experience of powerlessness, the more I assumed men had the power women did not have. In fact, what I was understanding was the female experience of male power.”
- “Men tuned into women but not tuned into their own hurts usually retained the attitude that women needed special protection.”
- “Women’s vulnerability confessing their desire to see men as a success object is matched by men’s confession of compulsiveness of sexual desire for women.”
- “Together, we came to understand how we beg men to express feelings, but then when men do express feelings, we call it sexism, male chauvinism, or backlash.”
- “Ralph had lost real power by trying to gain the appearance of power. He was a leader. But he was following a program for leaders ; therefore, he was a follower... he was, as he put it, a high-level mediocre.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Warren Thomas Farrell , ( 1943-06-26 ) June 26, 1943 (age 82)
- Occupation
- Author
- Education
- Montclair State University ( BA ), UCLA ( MA ), NYU ( PhD )
- Period
- Contemporary
- Genre
- Psychological, social, political
- Subject
- Men's/women's/fathers' issues, gender, couples' communication, child custody, boy crisis
- Literary movement
- women's movement , men's movement , fathers' movement
- Spouse
- Ursula Farrell (divorced), Liz Dowling (2002–present)
- Children
- 2 stepdaughters
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Warren Thomas Farrell (born June 26, 1943) is an American author, educator, and activist who has written about gender, particularly men's issues. Initially active in the second wave feminist movement of the late 1960s and 1970s, Farrell was a board member of the National Organization for Women in New York City and authored The Liberated Man (1974), which explored how traditional gender roles constrained both men and women. He obtained his doctorate in political science on the topic in 1974. His role-reversal workshops in the 1970s and early 1980s brought him mainstream attention. Over time, he grew critical of feminism and shifted his focus toward highlighting the disadvantages and challenges faced by men.
In the 1980s and 1990s, Farrell established himself as a leading voice in the emerging men's movement. His books Why Men Are the Way They Are (1986) and The Myth of Male Power (1993) argued that men are systematically disadvantaged in areas such as family law, education, health, and cultural representation. Farrell contended that men, often seen as "success objects," bore hidden costs of traditional masculinity, from hazardous work to military conscription, while facing rising cultural hostility. These writings were widely reviewed and translated.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Warren Farrell” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.