John Eldredge presents a bold, Christian-based view of men, urging them to accept the wild, sometimes dangerous (but not destructive) soul within. Acknowledging that many churches present a single model of a timid, even fearful man, Eldredge says that such teaching restricts believers and causes many to turn away from the great gifts of God. ...
Terrence Real, a psychotherapist with 20 years of experience treating men and their families, exposes an epidemic of "covert," or hidden, depression among men. Covert depression develops when a man attempts to soothe pain and suffering through abusive behavior, alcoholism, and workaholism. Real explains how men can heal themselves, restore ...
This seminal doctrine on male masculinity is co-authored by Robert Moore and Douglas Gillette, who, along with Robert Bly, are considered founders of the men's movement. They put forth here a ground breaking theory: the future of society and even mankind may be in jeopardy, in large part because of the male tendency towards aggression and ...
What is your true purpose in life? What do women really want? What makes a good lover? If you're a man reading this, you've undoubtedly asked yourself these questions-but you may not have had much luck answering them. Until now. In The Way of the Superior Man, David Deida explores the most important issues in men's lives-from career and family to ...
The Black Male Handbook is a collection of essays for Black males on surviving, living, and winning. Kevin Powell taps into the social and political climate rising in the Black community, particularly as it relates to Black males. This is a must-have book, not only for Black male readers, but the women who befriend, parent, partner, and love them. ...
Clinical psychologist William Pollack believes that, due to harmful myths regarding manhood in American society, boys are dangerously shortchanged when it comes to learning about the healthy expression of emotions and feelings. Though often untrue, influential stereotypes, such as "the rascal and the scamp" in childhood, and the supposed teen ...
This is the ultimate handbook for real men, explaining everything from surviving an avalanche and identifying poisonous snakes to picking a great cigar. The metrosexual man may be good at cocktail chat, but a real man knows how to fight off alligators, create a tourniquet out of a t-shirt, and rescue a drowning person. Frank Miniter's "The ...
Western culture, with its absent fathers, radical feminists, lack of tradition, and other factors, has produced men in crisis, says Robert Bly, founder of the Men's Movement. Men who have been raised in this culture often resort to being either antagonistic and domineering, or passive and detached, none of which makes them, or anyone else, happy. ...
What is the measure of a man? This profound question remains current and timely as expectations of men's roles in the world continue to evolve through time. Now, Sam Keen speculates on this subject in FIRE IN THE BELLY. He argues that men can not find themselves without first separating from the "world of woman." According to Keen, "the world of ...
High school and the difficult terrain of sexuality and gender identity are brilliantly explored in this smart, incisive ethnography. Based on eighteen months of fieldwork in a racially diverse working-class high school, "Dude, You're a Fag" sheds new light on masculinity both as a field of meaning and as a set of social practices. C. J. Pascoe's ...
Gail Sheehy asks the question "What do men want?" and answers it provocatively and perceptively. She examines how traditional male roles have changed, how men go through something that might be called male menopause and what it means, what sex and power have to do with men's sense of themselves, what is happening with the corporate refugees, and ...
The extraordinary successor to the classic Male Sexuality, which has more than 600,000 copies in Bantam mass market print. Unlike other books on sexuality, this guide pulls together the latest information on sexual dysfunction, enhancing pleasure, and improving communication between men and women.
This best-selling reader on men and masculinity, edited by two of the most prominent researchers on men, contains the most current articles on masculinity available. Organized around themes that define masculinity, this reader takes the position that men (as well as women) are "gendered" and that this gendering process is a central experience for ...
Internet icon Maddox's phenomenal "New York Times" bestseller "The Alphabet of Manliness" is revised and updated to take an even more expansive look at the true meaning of masculinity. color insert.
Exploring six biblically based stages, the author initiates men into a new understanding and ownership of their manhood and equips them to effectively lead their sons to manhood.
The authors offer the real truth from behind the locker-room door: the sometimes unwelcome facts about communication (or lack thereof), sex, etiquette, dating, working, marriage (and divorce); and all those other things that men never get around to talking about with the women in their lives.
"Reconstructing Gender" is an anthology that addresses the contemporary experiences from a variety of women and men. Drawing from a wide range of sources including research articles, critical essays, and personal narratives, Disch has chosen accessible, engaging, and provocative readings that represent many perspectives and experiences. Eleven ...
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 the Saturnian legacy, suffering from the corruption of empowerment, driven by their fear of women and other men, and wounding themselves and others. These and many ...
When former heavyweight champion Jim Jeffries came out of retirement on the fourth of July, 1910 to fight current black heavywight champion Jack Johnson in Reno, Nevada, he boasted that he was doing it "for the sole purpose of proving that a white man is better than a negro". Jeffries, though, was trounced and Whites everywhere rioted. The furor, ...
As they approach middle age, the men of the baby-boom generation are often faced with a common set of problems, which include insecurity in work, difficulties in building and maintaining relationships with women and men, and an inability to achieve even minimal feeling awareness. According to Jungian analyst Guy Corneau, these problems revolve ...
The author sets forth the idea that the development of masculinity hinges on careful cultivation that can, if ignored, lie dormant for years, providing a man with few of the assets that God has intended for daily use, but when nurtured, becomes a source of wisdom, purpose, and enhanced effectiveness.
When French sociologist Loic Wacquant signed up at a boxing gym in a black neighborhood of Chicago's South Side, he had never contemplated getting close to a ring, let alone climbing into it. Yet for three years he immersed himself among local fighters, amateur and professional. He learned the Sweet science of bruising, participating in all phases ...
Men are increasingly confused over the meaning of true manhood. Dalbey reveals Christ-centered methods for pursuing and attaining genuine masculine virtues and identity.
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