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The '''men's rights movement''', a particular movement led by people who identify as men's rights activists, emerged in the [[United States]] during the late 1970s to ensure equitable rights for men in the wake of the feminist movement. Men's rights organizations refers to organizations belonging to this movement.<ref name=Chafetz>{{cite book|last=Chafetz|first=Janet Saltzman|title=Handbook of the sociology of gender|year=2006|publisher=Springer Science|___location=New York|isbn=0-387-32460-7|page=168}}</ref> '''Men's rights''' is an umbrella term, encompassing the political [[rights]], [[entitlements]], and [[freedoms]] given or denied to males within a [[nation]] or [[culture]]. Men's rights have been the subject of a variety of social and political movements, including [[men's liberation]], [[profeminist men|profeminists]], [[mythopoetic men's movement]], [[LGBT social movements|gay male liberation]], [[Men's_rights#Men.27s_rights_movement|men's rights movement]],<ref>Messner, Michael A. (2000) Politics of Masculinities: Men in Movements Lanham: AltaMira Press. pp. 1-3. ISBN 0-8039-5577-4.</ref><ref>* Herrmann, Peter. (2004). [http://books.google.com/books?id=HdLVGgJQ0mUC&pg=PA60 ''Citizenship revisited: threats or opportunities of shifting boundaries.''] Hauppauge: Nova Science Publishers, Inc. pp. 60-67 (or more). ISBN 1-59033-900-2.</ref><ref>Newton, Judith Lowder. (2005). [http://books.google.com/books?id=bXZkmNTSQUAC&pg=PA166 ''From Panthers to Promise Keepers: rethinking the men's movement.''] Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. pp. 7, 10-14, 117, 187-188, 190-198, 222, 224, 284, 289. ISBN 0-8476-9130-6. (''men's liberation, profeminists, mythopoetics, Promise Keepers, gay male liberation'').</ref> and [[antifeminism]].<ref>Shira Tarrant (2003). [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=XQXqxfMGpKYC&pg=PA212 ''Men Speak Out: Views on Gender, Sex, and Power''] Taylor & Francis pp. 212 (or more). ISBN 0-415-95656-0, ISBN 978-0-415-95656-7</ref><ref name=Kimmel531>{{citation |title=Men and Masculinities: A Social, Cultural and Historical Encyclopedia |author=Kenneth Clatterbaugh |contribution=Men's Rights Movement |page=531 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-1-57607-774-0 |editor= Michael S. Kimmel and Amy Aronson |year=2003 |url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=jWj5OBvTh1IC&pg=PA531}}</ref><ref>Michael S. Kimmel (1995). [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ksbyvqKZL2MC&pg=PA61 ''The politics of manhood: profeminist men respond to the mythopoetic men's movement (and mythopoetic leaders answer)''] Temple University Press pp. 61 (or more). ISBN 1-56639-365-5, ISBN 978-1-56639-365-2</ref><ref>[http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/18842 "Can the men's movement be pro-feminist?"] ''Green Left''. November 24, 1999. Retrieved February 2, 2012.</ref><ref>Allan G. Johnson (2005). [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3nnxlqbN-IEC&pg=PA218 ''The gender knot: unraveling our patriarchal legacy''] Temple University Press pp. 218 (or more). ISBN 1-59213-383-5, ISBN 978-1-59213-383-3</ref><ref>Dragiewicz, Molly. (12 April 2011). [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=OHr7yWfEjQYC&pg=PA13 ''Equality with a Vengeance: Men's Rights Groups, Battered Women, and Antifeminist Backlash.''] UPNE. pp. 13-18. ISBN 978-1-55553-739-5.</ref><ref>Anna Gavanas (2004). [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=HgzFZ4o0qnMC&pg=PA11 ''Fatherhood politics in the United States: masculinity, sexuality, race and marriage''] University of Illinois Press pp. 11 (or more). ISBN 0-252-02884-8, ISBN 978-0-252-02884-7</ref><ref>Stephen M. Whitehead (2001). [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8LmiTxVjCvkC&pg=PA344 ''The masculinities reader''] Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 344 (or more). ISBN 0-7456-2689-0, ISBN 978-0-7456-2689-5</ref><ref>Bret E. Carroll (2003). [http://books.google.ca/books?id=E0R9lLtv8i8C&pg=PA167 ''American masculinities: a historical encyclopedia''] SAGE, pp. 167 (or more). ISBN 0-7619-2540-6, ISBN 978-0-7619-2540-8</ref>

Issues commonly associated with men's rights include marriage, cohabitation, parentage, job discrimination, divorce, support agreements, and child support.<ref>William R. Wishard, Laurie Wishard (1980) ISBN 978-0-89666-012-0 Cragmont Pubns ''Men's rights: a handbook for the 80's''</ref>