{"id":70135,"date":"2017-10-30T14:15:40","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T00:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=70135"},"modified":"2021-04-21T11:07:27","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T21:07:27","slug":"ms-aligned-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/10\/30\/ms-aligned-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s anthology explores male thinking, behavior and identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_70166\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70166\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/manoa-bookcover-msaligned2.jpg\" alt=\"bookcover\" width=\"310\" height=\"483\" class=\"size-full wp-image-70166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/manoa-bookcover-msaligned2.jpg 310w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/manoa-bookcover-msaligned2-193x300.jpg 193w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 310px) 100vw, 310px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-70166\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Ms. Aligned 2<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/msaligned2015.wordpress.com\/\">Ms. Aligned 2: Women Writing About Men<\/a><\/em> is an anthology of fiction, poetry and nonfiction in which 15 women writers explore male thinking, behavior and identity from the male point of view or through a prominent male character.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ms. Aligned 2<\/em> is edited by former <a href=\"http:\/\/manoajournal.hawaii.edu\/\"><em>M\u0101noa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing<\/em><\/a> intern Connie Pan, <em>M\u0101noa<\/em> Editor <strong>Pat Matsueda<\/strong> and West Virginia University instructor Rebecca Thomas. The cover features an illustration by Guatemalan artist S\u00faa Agap\u00e9.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/CreateSpace\/Amazon.com.\">Get your copy from CreateSpace\/Amazon.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Contributors include four University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> graduates&#8212;<strong>Mary Archer<\/strong>, <strong>Adele Ne Jame<\/strong>, <strong>Angela Nishimoto<\/strong> and Matsueda. Other writers are <strong>Emily A. Benton<\/strong>, Lillian Howan, Sion Dayson, Amy Holwerda, Gerda Govine Ituarte, Cassandra Lane and Shelly Rodrigue.<\/p>\n<p>Published by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elleonliteraryarts.org\/b_ms_aligned.php\">El Le\u00f3n Literary Arts<\/a>, this is the second book in the <a href=\"https:\/\/msaligned2015.wordpress.com\/\"><em>Ms. Aligned<\/em> series<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jill McCabe Johnson, an award-winning poet and the series editor of the University of Nebraska Gender Programs anthologies, says in the foreword that the <em>Ms. Aligned<\/em> authors have &ldquo;portrayed more nuanced representations of the masculine experience that begins with the archetypal and mythological, but troubles it, complicates it, causes us to challenge our own fundamental beliefs against a more complex and realistic array of expression. The challenge is not in being able to portray what is especially or particularly male. The challenge lies in portraying fully realized males, including those aspects of personality somehow deemed &lsquo;feminine.&rsquo;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Kristiana Kahakauwila, a hapa writer of Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian), German and Norwegian extraction, writes, &ldquo;To read <em>Ms. Aligned 2<\/em> is to witness women writers writing forward\u2014out of old tropes, expected ways of being, and into something fresh, memorable, filled with discovery.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The anthology  was funded in part by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/diversity\/seedideas\/\"><abbr title=\"Office of Student Equity, Excellence and Diversity: Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Access and Success\">SEED IDEAS<\/abbr><\/a> office of the <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>Ms. Aligned 2: Women Writing About Men<\/em> is an anthology of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction in which women writers explore male thinking, behavior, and identity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":70166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[679,598,1484,208,9,339],"class_list":["post-70135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-alumni-recognition","tag-faculty-recognition","tag-manoa-journal","tag-student-equity-excellence-and-diversity","tag-uh-manoa","tag-uh-press","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/manoa-bookcover-msaligned2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70135"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74558,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70135\/revisions\/74558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}