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Iron John, A Book About Men by Robert Bly
Iron John "a fascinating examination of myth, literature, psychology, and anthropology" (Newsday), National Book Award-winning poet and translator Robert Bly offers nothing less than a new vision of what it is to be a man. "Important and timely."--New York Times Book Review.
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Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man Sam Keen
A guide to establishing new personal ideals of heroism, strength, and potency for a fuller life examines the stereotypes, myths, and evolving roles of contemporary men, presenting an alternative vision of virtue and virility.
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Awakening From the Deep Sleep, A Powerful Guide for Courageous Men by Robert Pasick, Ph.D.
After years of socialization mandating fierce independence, invulnerability, and strength, many men fall into what psychotherapist Robert Pasick calls a "deep sleep": an emotional and behavioral state often characterized by excessive dependence on work, wives, or addictive substances. By their late thirties or forties, these men feel pressured to prove themselves, wary of the career track they're on, socially isolated, emotionally distant and hypercritical, and uncertain about what they really want.
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Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say, Destroying Myths, Creating Love Warren Farrell, Ph.D.
The best-selling author of Why Men Are the Way They Are and The Myth of Male Power now shows couples how to break through the unseen barriers to male communication constructed by society, families, and our culture.
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The Myth of Male Power Warren Farrell, Ph.D.
A must read--for men and women
This book rocks my world. When I read it, I was at once excited to the point where and couldn't sleep and touched to point of crying. Finally, an author who not only has touched on many realities faced by men, but expresses ideas clearly and articulately with gobs of statistics and examples.
Every male and female who cares about the subject of gender relations should read this book. Several male friends of mine have read it, with similar reactions to mine. None of my female friends, however, have taken the time. It's a shame, but maybe someday soon they will get around to it. What Farrell does so well in this book it talk about both men and women, without resorting to an "us vs. them" attitude.
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Why Men Are the Way They Are Warren Farrell, Ph.D.
The way the sexual revolution and the women's movement has affected women has been well documented in the last two decades. But what have these movements done to men?
For 20 years, over 100,000 men and women have experienced the other sex's point of view in Dr. Farrell's workshops. As a result, he has new theories about the reasons love, intimacy and commitment mean different things to women and men; what makes people successful at the office but unsuccessful at home; when a discussion between a man and a woman is helpful and when it is harmful; and how men are much less "powerful" than was ever thought possible.
Here is the book for every woman who wants to understand the men in her life--and for every man who wants to understand himself."
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Sex-Plotation: How Women Use Their Bodies to Extort Money From Men by Matthew Fitzgerald
This is a book about male-female relationships that deals with contemporary female duplicity in our modern society and refutes the false feminist propaganda about equal rights.
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The Flying Boy, Healing the Wounded Man by John Lee
Flying Boys are those unable to make commitments, hold down jobs, or have relationships. Speaks to men and women who have difficulty with interpersonal interaction or lasting relationships.
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Silent Sons: A Book For and About Men by Robert J. Ackerman
It could be you or someone you love. Strong, silent types are everywhere, and it is their telltale silence that has kept their problems hidden until now. A silent son can come from a family that coped with violence, alcoholism, child abuse, extreme rigidity, or divorce, but all silent sons have certain common characteristics.
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The Way of the Superior Man, A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work and Sexual
The Way Of The Superior Man takes the reader on a powerful journey into the heart of the contemporary masculine experience. With uncommon honesty and unparalleled insight into the deepest desires of the masculine heart, David Deida explores the most challenging and important issues in men's lives.
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Knights Without Armor: A Practical Guide for Men in Quest of Masculine Soul Aaron R. Kipnis, Ph.D.
An overview of ways in which men are remaking themselves. Aaron Kipnis offers a comprehensive view of all aspects of the men's movement in this 302-page volume.
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Manhood in the making: Cultural Concepts of Masculinity by David G. Gilmore
In a provocative, rewarding cross-cultural survey, Gilmore concludes that men are not so innately different from women: it takes culturally enforced norms of manhood to prod males into assertiveness.
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King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine by Robert Moore
Arguing that mature masculinity is not abusive or domineering, but generative, creative, and empowering of the self and others, Moore and Gillette provide a Jungian introduction to the psychological foundations of a mature, authentic, and revitalized masculinity.
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The Prince and the King: Healing the Father-Son Wound: A Guided Journey of Initiation by Michael Gur
At the current time there is no editorial review on this book.
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Mother, Sons, and Lovers : How a Man's Relationship With His Mother Affects the Rest of His Life by
Gurian shows how the challenges a man typically encounters in relationships--such as codependency, insecurity, and the need for control--most often have their origin in the way he learned to relate to his mother. This guided journey helps facilitate healing in the primal bond and other love relationships.
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Finding Our Fathers, How a Man’s Life is Shaped by His Relationship With His Father by Samuel Osher
"Erudite...sensitive...There is a nice blend of family and work concerns in this book, which helps to make it one of the better contributions on male and female psychology thus far."
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I Don’t Want To Talk About It, Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression by Terrence Real
When Terrence Real was studying to be a therapist, he accepted the notion that women suffered depression at rates several times that of men. Now he believes that conventional wisdom is wrong, that there has been a great cultural cover-up of depression in men.
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Stiffed, The Betrayal of the American Man by Susan Faludi
Susan Faludi, author of the feminist bestseller Backlash, has done it again with an exhaustive report on the betrayals felt by working men throughout the United States. American men are angry and discontented, she argues in Stiffed, because their sense of what it is to be a man has been destroyed by everything from corporate downsizing and the shrinking military of the post cold war era to the increase in local sports teams leaving town.
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Male Menopause Jed Diamond
So do men really go through menopause? If you think of menopause as hot flashes and a sudden change in fertility, no. But if you regard menopause as physical and emotional changes triggered by significant changes in hormone levels, then yes, men go through it.
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Beachcombing at Miramar, The Quest for an Authentic Life by Richard Bode
In this "restful book about the companions we choose and the pace at which we live our lives" the best-selling author of First You Have to Row a Little Boat recounts his decision to leave an unfulfilling career and move to a small beach cottage.
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It's a Guy Thing, An Owner's Manual for Women by David Deida
In a must-have book that puts male behavior under the microscope, noted relationship expert David Deida answers women's most frequently asked questions about men and why they act the way they do.
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Understanding Men's Passages: Understanding the New Map of Men's Lives by Gail Sheehy
Inspired by her husband's struggle with a midlife career crisis, Sheehy has compiled nearly 10 years worth of interviews and research into this book, revealing the fears and self-doubts of men over 40 who struggle with identity crises both at work and with their partners and children.
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When Men Grieve: Why Men Grieve Differently and How You Can Help by
From this book we learn about the experiences of men grieving various types of losses and how different their reality may be from that of their partner. The masculine grieving style is described in eloquent, lyrical language and mirrors the experiences of many men who seek counseling and support in my bereavement groups.
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The Andropause Mystery: Unraveling Truths About the Male Menopause by Robert S. Tan
This book has unraveled the truth, which will be able to help men and women to understand better about male menopause.
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Being a Man: A Guide to the New Masculinity by Patrick Fanning
An inspirational guide to shaping a man's life skills addresses such issues as controlling anger, understanding gender differences, enjoying responsible sex, making and keeping male friends, and other topics.
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Manhood in America: A Cultural History by Michael Kimmel
Asserting that no history of American manhood has been written before, Kimmel traces three male role models from the early federal period to the present.
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Men's Lives by Michael S. Kimmell
An anthology of essays organized around specific themes and issues such as men in families, from boys to men, rites of passage in male institutions, work, health, and sexuality.
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American Manhood: Transformations in Masculinity from the Revolution to the Modern Era by E. Anthony
A fascinating, accessible, and meticulous piece of scholarship, this study of changing conceptions of manhood breaks new ground in uncovering the internal struggles and shifting paradigms that have informed American men's understanding of themselves.
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The Image of Man : The Creation of Modern Masculinity by George Mosse
Mosse--emeritus professor at the University of Wisconsin and Jerusalem's Hebrew University and author of classic studies of nationalism, racism, and Nazism--examines a European stereotype of masculinity, "ideas of nationhood, respectability, and war," that has affected "almost every aspect of modern history."
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Masculinities by R. W. Connell
Here is a powerful reply to Iron John, a fresh look at the complicated nature of what R.W. Connell calls "masculinities." One of the most important voices in the new feminist scholarship by men, Connell provides a nuanced and incisive analysis of how our notions of masculinity have evolved in psychoanalysis, social science, and historically in the creation of a global economy.
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Taking It Like a Man by David Savran
From the Beat poets' incarnation of the "white Negro" through Iron John and the Men's Movement to the paranoid masculinity of Timothy McVeigh, white men in this country have increasingly imagined themselves as victims. In ^ITaking It Like a Man^N, David Savran explores the social and sexual tensions that have helped to produce this phenomenon.
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Wrestling With Love, How Men Struggle with Intimacy by Samuel Osherson, Ph.D.
In Wrestling With Love, psychologist Sam Osherson reveals how men in our culture struggle to achieve intimacy in their relationships, even as strong messages about masculinity demand that they hide their desire for attachments.
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The Magician Within: Accessing the Shaman in the Male Psyche by Robert Moore, Douglas Gillette
Like the two previous volumes from these collaborators (The King Within and The Warrior Within, both 1992), this one urges men to take control of their lives and to enjoy the knowledge within, in this case by emphasizing mastery of the culture's power, imagination, and technology--a stimulating prospect undermined by graceless writing.
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Wrestling With Love: How Men Struggle with Intimacy by
In Wrestling With Love, psychologist Sam Osherson reveals how men in our culture struggle to achieve intimacy in their relationships, even as strong messages about masculinity demand that they hide their desire for attachments.
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The Warrior Within: Accessing the Warrior in the Male Psyche by Robert Moore, Douglas Gillette
A Jungian psychoanalyst and a mythologist teach men how to recover the warrior within themselves and to use this aggressive energy to improve their careers, their family lives, and their roles in the community.
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The King Within: Accessing the King in Male Psyche by Robert Moore, Douglas Gillette
Calling itself ``an operator's manual to the psyche'' of men (and a guide to their ``hard-wiring'' for women), this is also a firm if rather theoretical response to critics who charge that men's movement gatherings and exhortations are silly, reactive, and shallow.
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The Lover Within : Accessing the Lover in the Male Psyche by Robert Moore, Douglas Gillette
This last volume of four (The Magician Within, p. 208, etc.) from Jungian psychoanalyst Moore and mythologist Gillette completes a vision of the mature man as a noble, emotionally generous, artistically expressive soul.
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When Men Think Private Thoughts by Gordon MacDonald
Am I competent and successful? Am I a desirable husband and a good father? Am I in charge of my life, or is my life in charge of me? Men ask these measure-up questions of themselves in times of quiet contemplation as they consider what they are not, what they think they ought to be, and what they ultimately want to be.
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The Decline of Males by Lionel Tiger
Biological anthropologist Lionel Tiger, best known for developing the concept of male bonding in Men in Groups, offers what he calls "a chronicle of the decline of men and the ascendancy of women." If there were a male counterpart to feminism--masculinism?--this is where it would be found.
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The Male Body: A New Look at Men in Public and in Private by Susan Bordo
Shock waves riveted the Mattel, Inc., boardroom in 1961 when female executives suggested that Barbie's boy-toy, Ken--in keeping with Barbie's own physiognomy--ought to be a little more anatomically correct. No one was suggesting 1.25-inch-to-1-inch-scale plastic genitalia, mind you, just a modest groin bulge. But male execs at the toy company were scandalized; the suggested modifications did not make Ken more "authentic" in their eyes--they made him pornographic.
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Constructing Masculinity by Maurice Berger
This anthology takes us beyond the status of masculinity itself, questioning society's and the media's normative concepts of the masculine, and considering the extent to which men and women can transcend these stereotypes and prescriptions.
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Transformation: Understanding the Three Levels of Masculine Consciousness by Robert A. Johnson
Uses the literary archetypes of Don Quixote, Hamlet, and Faust to examine the three distinct levels of personal development toward an enlightened consciousness.
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He : Understanding Masculine Psychology by Robert A. Johnson
Robert A. Johnson, noted lecturer and Jungian analyst, updates his classic exploration of the meaning of being a man, and adds insight for both sexes into the feminine side of a man's personality.
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Real Boys : Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood by William S. Pollack
Listening to the author William Pollack read Real Boys, it doesn't take long to find out that being a boy these days isn't all fun and games. As codirector of the Center for Men at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical Center, Pollack has seen behind the stoic masks of troubled, modern boys as they struggle to cope with the mixed messages, conflicting expectations, and increasingly complex demands they receive from our evolving society.
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The Fisher King and the Handless Maiden : Understanding the Wounded Feeling Function in Masculine an
Johnson, whose work will already be familiar to those interested in Jungian thought, specializes (as in his three books He, She, and We) in applying Jung's theories to the relations between men and women. In this slender book, he mines two important tales for what they can tell us about feeling not simply emotion but a grounded sense of values.
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If Men Could Talk: Here's What They'd Say by Alon Gratch
Women drawn to this book by its promise to unlock men's secrets will find that following Gratch's premise requires more effort and sophistication than following the work of John Gray. Though this book holds insights into the male psyche and into the therapeutic process itself, readers looking for a quick fix or easy characterizations will be disappointed.
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What Men Really Want by Herb Goldberg
Despite the provocative title this is not a manual on sexual preferences and/or techniques. It's a very well written guide to the realities and fallacies of relationships between men and women.
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Men in Love by Nancy Friday
An extraordinary, explicitly masculine journey, Men In Love develops a startlingly honest portrayal of what it means to be a man in contemporary America. Here are the unexpurgated dreams, fantasies and fetishes that excite and obsess men today.
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The Seven Seasons of a Man's Life by Patrick M. Morley
In Patrick Morley's true sequel to The Man in the Mirror a man is taken beyond the day-to-day problems he faces and is confronted with seven major seasons of life that can make him or break him.
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Raising Cain : Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys by Daniel J. Kindlon, et al
Boys suffer from a too-narrow definition of masculinity, the authors assert as they expose and discuss the relationship between vulnerability and developing sexuality, the "culture of cruelty" boys live in, the "tyranny of toughness," the disadvantages of being a boy in elementary school, how boys' emotional lives are squelched, and what we, as a society, can do about all this without turning "boys into girls."
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Man Enough : Fathers, Sons, and the Search for Masculinity by Frank S., III Pittman
Atlanta psychiatrist Pittman (Private Lies, 1989) returns with an engaging, if not always convincing, assessment of the causes and cures of masculine inadequacy in America today.
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Gods in Everyman : A New Psychology of Men's Lives and Loves by Jean Shinoda Bolen
Bolen (psychiatry, U. of California) traces the inner patterns--or archetypes--that shape men's personalities, careers, and personal relationships.
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Mothers and Sons: The Struggle to Raise Our Sons by Andrea O'Reilly
The relationship between mothers and sons has been explored for ages. From Oedipus to Al Brooks' Mother, we are fascinated by the familial bond between a mother and her son. This groundbreaking work looks at many untouched areas of the mother-son relationship including race, sexuality and ability.
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Gods in Everyman : A New Psychology of Men's Lives and Loves by Jean Shinoda Bolen
Bolen (psychiatry, U. of California) traces the inner patterns--or archetypes--that shape men's personalities, careers, and personal relationships.
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Manliness & Civilization by Gail Bederman
Manliness & Civilization is a cultural history of gender and race in the United States from 1880 through 1917. In Manliness & Civilization, Gail Bederman investigates the connection between powerful manhood and racial dominance as it was debated, promoted, and resisted during the decades around the turn of the century.
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Gods in Everyman : A New Psychology of Men's Lives and Loves by Jean Shinoda Bolen
Bolen (psychiatry, U. of California) traces the inner patterns--or archetypes--that shape men's personalities, careers, and personal relationships.
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Studs, Tools, and the Family Jewels: Metaphors Men Live by Peter F. Murphy
Reveals the insidious effects of the language men use to speak about manhood.
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Under Saturn's Shadow: The Wounding and Healing of Men by James Hollis
Saturn was the infamous Roman god who ate his children in an attempt to stop them from usurping his power. Men throughout history have been psychologically and spiritually burdened by this legacy, wounding themselves and others. Here the author of The Middle Passage offers a rich perspective on the secrets men carry in their hearts.
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Death of a Hero, Birth of the Soul: Answering the Call of Midlife by John C. Robinson
This is a wonderful book about the psychological and spiritual challenges of midlife. For men (and anyone interested in understanding them), it is filled with poetry, myth, personal experience, and psychology.
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Absent Fathers, Lost Sons: The Search for Masculine Identity by Guy Corneau
In a lively introduction to masculine psychology for baby-boomers, Corneau makes a fascinating connection between the difficulties middle-aged men encounter in building and maintaining secure relationships and the profound feelings they have concerning their fathers' literal or emotional silences.
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Murdering Masculinities by Greg Forter
"Sumptuous, elegant, nuanced, and accessible, Greg Forter helps us to remember what language can do. But Forter minces more than words in Murdering Masculinities. He offers a transformative reading of American crime fiction, arguing that it is not to high modernism that we should look for the reinvention of gender, but rather to authors like James Cain, Chester Himes, Dashiell Hammett, Jim Thompson, and in particular William Faulkner."
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Wisdom of Our Fathers: Timeless Life Lessons by Joe Kita
Have you ever looked back on an experience and thought, had I only known, it would all have turned out differently? In this inspiring book of life lessons, journalist Joe Kita asked men in their autumn years what they wish they had known 30 years ago.
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The Hazards of Being Male: Surviving the Myth of Masculine Privilege by Herb Goldberg
It deals with real problems gripping real men even as we enter the 21st Century. It shows where we men differ from women and even among ourselves.
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Mythopoetic Perspectives of Men's Healing Work by Edward Read
Whether in crisis or not, whether in denial or not, all men go through a midlife transition. The mythopoetic perspective is a way for men to start an inward journey of introspection to seek personal transformation and healing.
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Creating the Modern Man: American Magazines and Consumer Culture, 1900-1950 by Tom Pendergast
This book looks fascinating however I no review is available yet.
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Boys Will Be Men: Masculinity in Troubled Times by Richard A. Hawley
Drawing on examples from the historical and cultural record--from King David to Holden Caulfield--the author of The Headmaster's Papers examines the heroic and tragic elements of male experience to define the nature of masculinity in the modern world.
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Westerns: Making the Man in Fiction and Film by Lee Clark Mitchell
Ranging from the novels of James Fenimore Cooper to Louis L'Amour, and from classic films like Stagecoach to spaghetti Westerns like A Fistful of Dollars, Mitchell shows how Westerns helped assuage a series of crises in American culture.
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Masked Men: Masculinity and the Movies in the Fifties by Steven Cohan
Steven Cohan's Masked Med offeres a thoughtful and thoroughly engrossing look at Hollywoods's male stars in the 1950's.
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Remaking Men: Jung, Spirituality and Social Change by David J. Tacey
The nature of masculinity is either treated critically from a sociological standpoint or analyzed from a psychological and spiritual perspective. Remaking Men argues that we must strive to bridge the gap between these separate traditions--masculinity should neither be hijacked by the spiritual, Jung-influenced men's movement, nor discussed merely as a product of socio-political forces.
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The Affairs of Men by Harvey Kay, MD
Rescuing men from the tyranny of masculinity.
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Male Myths and Icons: Masculinity in Popular Culture by Roger Horrocks
A thought-provoking study of some of the important pop myths about masculinity including the horror film, the western, rock music, and pornography.
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Across the Great Divide: Cultures of Manhood in the American West by Matthew Basso
From Custer and Geronimo to John Wayne and the Marlboro Man, American notions of masculinity have been deeply interwoven with our ideas about the West. But there's more to the relationship between manhood and the frontier than a simple tale of cowboys and Indians, ruggedness and civilization.
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Orion's Legacy: Cultural History of Man as Hunter by Charles Bergman
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Fierce and Tender Men by Clinton J. Jesser
Jesser (sociology, Northern Illinois U.) describes features and potentials of the men's movement, in which he participates himself. He provides a background of men's and gender studies, presents the course of a male's life as a journey, and then urges men to come together for healing and action.
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Making Sense of Men's Magazines by Nick Stevenson
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Playing Catch With My Mother: Coming to Manhood When All the Rules Have Changed by Greg Lichtenberg
Skillful writing rescues this memoir from being just another chronicle of adolescent angst, and a genuine attempt to grapple with what it meant to come of age during the feminist movement of the late 1960s and '70s grounds it in the life of the nation, not just that of the memoirist.
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The Perfectible Body: The Western Ideal of Male Physical Development by Kenneth R. Dutton
In many cultures, "physical perfection" is a contradiction in terms; the physical--the realm of the body--is, by definition, thought of as imperfect. Yet in Western cultures, the pervasive tradition in depicting human or superhuman perfection has been that of a conscpicuously masculine physique. This fascinating book explores the origins and evolution of this Western ideal.
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Slow Motion: Changing Masculinities Changing Men by Lynne Segal
The title of this wide-ranging look at masculine identity refers to the pace at which men, according to the author, give up outdated notions of who they are. The white Western male enjoys (or suffers from) an identity that has taken centuries to perfect, and he is hanging on tenaciously.
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Why Men Watch Football by Bob Andelman
What is it that excites men about football? What's the big attraction? Why is it that some men will sit down for three or six or nine hours in front of a TV set when football is on, yet they won't sit still for more than 15 minutes for anything else when they're at home?
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In a Man's World: Father, Son, Brother, Friend, and Other Roles Men Play by Perry Garfinkle
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Heroes in Hard Times: Cop Action Movies in the U.S by Neal King
I always thought that Die Hard was a movie about sodomy, jobs that suck, and family problems. After watching a couple of hundred flicks just like Die Hard, I also believe that cop movies can change your life, and not just by melting your brain.
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Man Things: Equal Time for Men by Lauran Paine
Why do men act like men? This book blends men's issues with a healthy dose of humor, creating some powerful insights ("The tool belt is one of the greatest adornments a man can wear. ") and some tongue-in-cheek reflections on the nature of male habits.
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Masculinity: The Hoax Enslaving Men by Russell S. Dynda
I wrote this book to appeal to men and women of courage. Those who have the courage to both reexamine their lives and begin making significant modification where it is warranted. In my discussions, both personally and on the radio, it has become apparent that most men have a major investment in maintaining concepts of "masculinity."
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