Most Important Concepts

To me, there were two concepts that I believed were of equal importance and those were the respective genders discussed in Angela Davis' Women, Race, and Class and Michael Kimmel's Manhood in America. The reason these two concepts were the most important in my opinion is because everyone in the class could relate to them.  Everyone had the ability to share personal experiences that related to a specific idea or question that was raised in both books.  When we discussed other books that were focused more on race relations, not everyone had the ability to relate the concepts to personal experience.  Although race is a powerful subject to discuss, in my opinion a discussion is much more meaningful when personal experiences are shared and the other members of the discussion can relate to what those experiences contribute to the understanding of the concepts raised in these books.