Editing Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (section)

== Personal life ==
Masson is married to Leila Masson, a German [[pediatrics|pediatrician]].<ref name="NY"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.leilamasson.com/ |title=Dr. Leila Masson |publisher=Leilamasson.com |access-date=2012-01-05 |archive-date=2012-01-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120104083953/http://leilamasson.com/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> They have two sons. He also has a daughter by a previous marriage with Therese Claire Masson.<ref name=Jeff/> In the early 1990s, Masson had been engaged to [[University of Michigan]] [[feminist]] legal scholar [[Catharine MacKinnon]], who wrote the preface to his ''A Dark Science: Women, Sexuality, and Psychiatry in the Nineteenth Century''.<ref>{{Cite news| volume = 26| issue = 12| pages = 36–43| last = Smith| first = Dinitia| title = Love is Strange: The Crusading Feminist and the Repentant Womanizer| work = [[New York Magazine|New York]]| access-date = 2010-02-14| date = 1993-03-22| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=61MAAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA36}} ([https://books.google.com/books?id=61MAAAAAMBAJ&pg=PP1 cover])</ref><ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/apr/12/gender.politicsphilosophyandsociety "Are women human?"] by Stuart Jeffries, ''[[The Guardian]]'', April 12, 2006.</ref>

Masson became a [[veganism|vegan]] in 2004.<ref name="NY">{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/15/dining/15mass.html |title=A Man With Opinions on Food With a Face |first=Eric |last=Konigsberg |work=The New York Times |date=14 April 2009 |access-date=19 April 2012}}</ref> He is an [[animal rights]] activist.<ref name=Jeff/>