Download or read book Manhood Boot Camp written by Phyllis Thompson Hilliard and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2006-06 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For every young man navigating through adolescence, this work is a tool of empowerment. (Practical Life)
Download or read book The Pink Marine written by Greg Cope White and published by Aboutface Books. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pink Marine is the story-full of hilarity and heartbreak-of how a teenage boy who struggles with self-acceptance and doesn't fit the traditional definition of masculinity finds acceptance and self-worth in Marine Corps boot camp. When Greg Cope White's best friend tells him he's spending his summer in Marine Corps boot camp at Parris Island, South Carolina, all Greg hears is 'summer' and 'camp'. Despite dire warnings from his friend, Greg vows to join him in recruit training. He's eighteen, underweight, he's never run a mile-and he's gay. Greg's sheltered life hadn't prepared him for military service. A prince out of water, he packed five suitcases since he'd never been away from home for thirteen weeks. The U.S. Marines stripped him from all of that, shaved his head and put a rifle in his hands. At first he struggles to keep up, and afraid his secret will be discovered. But midway through, the desire to survive and become a Marine trumps fear. He learns that everyone, just like in the real world, comes into the service feeling 'different'; possibly prejudged for the color of their skin, their weight, their poverty--some have even chosen boot camp over jail. Can a flighty, 112-pound, unmanly Texan transform into one of the few, the proud, the Marines? Will Greg even survive?
Download or read book The Pink Marine written by Greg Cope White and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Greg Cope White's best friend tells him he is spending his summer in Marine Corps boot camp at Parris Island, South Carolina, all Greg hears is "summer" and "camp." Despite dire warnings from his friend, Greg vows to join him in recruit training. He is eighteen, underweight, he's never run a mile-and he is gay. It's 1979-long before Don't Ask, Don't Tell, the Supreme Court marriage equality ruling, and with no LGBT rights in place in most states, and the Marines having a very definite expulsion policy in place for gay people when it comes to military personnel, will Greg even survive? The Pink Marine is the story-full of hilarity and heartbreak-of how a teenage boy who struggles with self-acceptance and his sexuality and doesn't fit the traditional definition of manliness-finds acceptance and self-worth in Marine Corps boot camp. Greg's sheltered life has not prepared him for military service. At first he struggles to keep up, and afraid his secret will be discovered. But midway through, the desire to survive and become a Marine trumps fear. He learns that everyone comes into the service feeling "different"; possibly prejudged for the color of their skin, their weight, their poverty-some have even chosen boot camp over jail. In this land before Gay Pride became almost a national holiday, can a flighty, 112-pound, effeminate Texan transform into one of the few, the proud, the Marines? About the Author Greg Cope White is a television comedy writer. He's written for Norman Lear, Marta Kauffman & David Crane among others and for shows airing on NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX, and HBO. He's not a doctor but he played on Another World. He's a world-traveling bon vivant with a voracious appetite for life. He puts his funny where his mouth is, blogging on EatGregEat, The Huffington Post, and cooking on television. Catch him on Cooking Channel's Unique Sweets. Advance Praise for Greg Cope White and The Pink Marine "Greg is as inspirational as he is hilarious-I love this book " -Margaret Cho "A great story beautifully told-surprising, funny, courageous and inspiring." -David Hyde Pierce "This is the story of how, through pure gumption, a most unlikely Marine candidate rises to the occasion to show his true colors " -Jane Lynch "Marine Corps boot camp was the toughest thing I ever did. I had to cope with being skinny, weak, and timid in a place that demanded strength, confidence, and fearlessness. But I didn't have to cope with being gay or having to hide who I actually was. . . . The Pink Marine is a wonderful book and I'm proud to be Greg White's fellow jarhead." -Jim Beaver, Actor (Justified, Deadwood)/U.S. Marine "For five years, on a television show called Covert Affairs, I had the privilege of pretending to be a member of the U.S. military. For six years, in the United States Marines, my friend Greg pretended to be straight. He wins. The Pink Marine will inspire you, make you laugh, and remind you of what's important in this life." -Christopher Gorham, Actor (Covert Affairs, Popular, Ugly Betty)
Download or read book Anchoredman written by Jason A. Graves and published by . This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you find yourself doing things that you know could shipwreck your life, but you can't seem to stop? Are you ready to become the kind of guy that a woman, a family, and most importantly God can trust? In Anchoredman, gripping stories of life and death adventures reveal vital lessons for becoming the strong leader and protector God created you to be. Through the analogy of building a rock-climbing anchor, you'll discover a realistic, step-by-step plan for staying anchored to God.
Download or read book The Making of Men written by Dr. Arne Rubinstein and published by Dr Arne Rubinstein. This book was released on 2013-05-12 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As parents, we all want our boys to grow up to be happy, healthy and successful. For this to happen, it’s vital we understand their world, their challenges, and how our relationship with them must change as they become young men. Using real-life examples, parenting expert Dr Arne Rubinstein clearly explains the risks teenagers face today, including drugs, alcohol, technology and peer group pressure. He then shows how you can equip your son to make safe and sensible choices. Whether you’re a single mum of a happy-go-lucky eight-year old, or the parent of a troubled teen, The Making of Men is a practical, commonsense guide to helping your son transition from a boy to a young man who is motivated and inspired. ‘Funny, encouraging, gritty and real.’ Steve Biddulph, bestselling author of Manhood and Raising Boys
Download or read book Boot Camp written by Jason Hardin and published by Deward Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BOOT CAMP. Where a soldier learns the basics. Where he is equipped for the battles ahead. Boot Camp is where he tests his weapons and learns to fight with discipline and honor. Boot Camp is where careful, deliberate time is taken to learn from the veterans of previous wars: what obstacles confronted them; where they met the enemy; most importantly, how did they succeed? This book is the Boot Camp of the new IMAGE series of books for men by Jason Hardin. This is a great book to help us men live opposite of this world s model of a man. Stephen Arterburn, Best-selling author, including Every Man s Battle Founder of Women of Faith, Host of New Life Live Jason focuses like a laser beam on a theme that has been the defining passion of my own life for some years now. Writing particularly, but not exclusively, for men, he urges us to lift our vision to the extraordinary things that God can make possible in us through His Son, Jesus Christ. Our problem is not that we desire too much but that we settle for so little. I was stirred deeply by this triumphant call to arms. Jason has that unique combination of spiritual insight, emotional maturity, and literary zest that make a writer s work special. This is a must read I will be impatient for the remaining volumes in the series Gary Henry, Author of Diligently Seeking God and Reaching Forward "Hardin s first installment is an excellent explanation of what hinders most of us from being the men we imagine and God envisioned. This book exposes our chief struggles and encourages us to overcome by God s strength and armor. It s an outstanding start for a journey toward biblical manhood. I m a better man because of Boot Camp; you will be too. I can t wait for the journey to continue. Edwin Crozier, Author of Plugged In: High Voltage Prayer
Download or read book Free from the Inside Out 60 Day Men s Devotional written by Ronald Zion Roseboro and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-05-11 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Free From The Inside Out 60 Day Men's Devotional is a 60 day spiritual boot camp for current and former incarcerated men. The devotional is designed to challenge and empower men to live a life of integrity and productivity within their communities. Author Ronald Zion Roseboro uses biblical narratives and life experiences to compel men to embrace true manhood and fatherhood.
Download or read book Mentoring Warriors written by David E Riffel and published by Kharis Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-02 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tackling the challenging topic of how to be a mentor and how to be mentored, David brings his decades of mentoring practice to the page. Insightful and transparent, David shares himself and his experience. Going deeper into the "hows" and "whys" of good mentoring practices, he brings practical, biblical advice for those desiring to make a significant difference in the lives of others. - Jeff Turner, TNW Group, Founder and Former CEO, Spirit Aerosystems.Are you on the right path? Will you ever experience real manhood?Young men (18-30) are warriors. That awesome stage of life where everything is on the line. An excellent read for men who want to do a better job at mentoring, and for warriors trying to figure life out. Wichita State University once conducted a study to answer the question: What makes for a healthy mentoring relationship? Highlights of that study forms a basis for some of the insights in Mentoring Warriors. With biblical principles for mentoring, as well as advice for warriors in six key areas of life: self-management, life skills, education/career, relationships, faith and identity, this book has something for you.
Download or read book Raising Real Men written by Hal Young and published by Great Waters Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Families with boys often find the world reacts to them in mock horror. Even though parents love their sons, privately they admit that boys can be a handful to raise--they are boisterous, competitive, reckless, distractable. The challenge of wills between parent and son starts early, and the quest to civilize young bulls may seem hopeless some days. Yet believers know that God has given them children as a gift of heaven, specially chosen for their particular families and marked as a blessing. If that's so, why does it seem so hard? How can we prepare these boys to serve God when it's all we can do to make it through another day? Isn't there a better way? Raising Real Men: Surviving, Teaching and Appreciating Boys shows the answer is emphatically yes. Written by the parents of six boys, Raising Real Men provides hope and encouragement to families with sons. Starting from the premise that God made boys to become men, Hal and Melanie Young offer Biblical principles and tested, practical ideas for training the manly virtues that can drive parents and teachers up the wall. This is a practical guide to equipping the hearts and minds of boys without breaking or losing your own. "...earthy, realistic, humorous, and scriptural ..." -- Douglas Wilson, author, Future Men "This is just what the doctor ordered for parents who want to raise capable Christian men of character." -- John Rosemond, author, Parenting By The Book
Download or read book In a Mirror Dimly written by Jack Walker and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is book 2 of the incredible, real-life journey of a boy's struggle to achieve manhood. The journey continues in Colorado and takes him to the wilds of the Montana Rocky Mountains. The reader will meet the mountain-man mentor who taught him the ways of nature. Readers will visit an enchanted mountain village where the mayor ran the only gas station and the social hub of the village was a small café run by a jolly blind man, and will meet a young village high school girl as fresh as morning dew and a sheepherder who was a college professor. The call to war first took him from the total freedom of the wild to the regimented discipline of Navy boot camp on the shore of Lake Michigan and on to the warm, palm-tree climes of Corpus Christi, Texas, on the Gulf of Mexico. In New Orleans, he performed onstage at Pat O'Brien's and fell in love with a stripper. The reader will meet the crew and experience shipboard life on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier. Following his less-than-illustrious naval tour (a charge of AWOL, two summary courts-martial), he reentered civilian life to marry, have children, and be admitted to college on a probationary basis. He was invited to President Kennedy's inaugural ball, and he received a college degree. Along with his three children and pregnant wife, they trekked to a job offer in Chicago in an old Ford and a U-Haul trailer.
Download or read book War and Gender written by Joshua S. Goldstein and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-07-17 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender roles are nowhere more prominent than in war. Yet contentious debates, and the scattering of scholarship across academic disciplines, have obscured understanding of how gender affects war and vice versa. In this authoritative and lively review of our state of knowledge, Joshua Goldstein assesses the possible explanations for the near-total exclusion of women from combat forces, through history and across cultures. Topics covered include the history of women who did fight and fought well, the complex role of testosterone in men's social behaviours, and the construction of masculinity and femininity in the shadow of war. Goldstein concludes that killing in war does not come naturally for either gender, and that gender norms often shape men, women, and children to the needs of the war system. lllustrated with photographs, drawings, and graphics, and drawing from scholarship spanning six academic disciplines, this book provides a unique study of a fascinating issue.
Download or read book Manhood and the Making of the Military written by Anders Ahlbäck and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Finland gained its independence from Russia in 1917, the country had not had a military for almost two decades. The ensuing creation of a new national conscript army aroused intense but conflicting emotions among the Finns. This book examines how a modern conscript army, born out of a civil war, had to struggle through social, cultural and political minefields to find popular acceptance. Exploring the ways that images of manhood were used in the controversies, it reveals the conflicts surrounding compulsory military service in a democratic society and the compromises made as the new nation had to develop the will and skill to defend itself. Through the lens of masculinity, another picture of conscription emerges, offering new understandings of why military service was resisted and supported, dreaded and celebrated in Finnish society. Intertwined with the story of the making of the military runs the story of how manhood was made and remade through the idealized images and real-life experiences of conscripted soldiers. Placing interwar Finland within a broad European context, the book traces the origins of competing military traditions and ideological visions of modern male citizenship back to their continental origins. It contributes to the need for studies on the impact of the Great War on masculinities and constructions of gender among military cultures in the peacetime period between the two world wars.
Download or read book The Men from the Boys written by Ray Raphael and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In other times and places the passage from boyhood to manhood was dramatized and facilitated by initiation rites. In ritualized fashion, the complex problems of personal development were translated into clear and concrete tasks. But in the dazzling variety of modern America there is no universal test or ceremony that bestows manhood: each male must find a group with its special initiations, or devise an initiation of his own. He may climb mountains, play football, join the army, pledge fraternities, impress the girls, and get drunk with the guys. But where do these free-style initiations lead in the end? To find out, Ray Raphael conducted in-depth interviews with one hundred American males ranging from a Mr. America body-building to a practitioner of witchcraft, from a “right stuff” fighter pilot to a draft dodger, from a self-proclaimed Don Juan to a “superdad.” The Men from the Boys is the first and only book-length study of contemporary simulations of classical male initiations. The results of this study are unsettling. Initiations today function more as tests to determine who can make the grade than as educational tools that encourage the development of all young men. In the absence of inclusive rituals, Raphael’s subjects struggle to overcome doubts as they negotiate their own paths to maturity. Their personal tales, told with dramatic and emotional intensity, speak to all American males who find themselves torn between a unisex modernity and more archaic notions of masculinity.
Download or read book Deconstructing Masculinity Interrogating the Role of Symbolism in Gender Performativity written by Lauren Dundes and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2024-09-19 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Progress towards gender parity is hindered by unconscious ways that hypermasculinity is valorized at a symbolic level. By deconstructing how social and textual phenomena as well as social structures contribute to gender performativity, we can elucidate hard-to-discern patterns that perpetuate hegemonic masculinity. The subliminal elevation of symbols of hypermasculinity excludes both women and non-gender conforming men. By delving into these symbolic meanings that operate subliminally, we can more effectively debunk beliefs that “real men” fall within narrow parameters of masculinity. There remains much to explore in terms of hidden pressures for men to constrain their expression of emotions, project an appearance of hardness, and equate violence with power, to name just a few persistent facets of toxic masculinity. While abstract forms of inculcating hypermasculinity are difficult to identify, interrogating their role in masculine performativity will result in a more comprehensive understanding of impediments to gender equality.
Download or read book Andrizo Man A Call To Distinctive Authentic Manhood written by James Demelo and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Andrizo Man is a clarion call for real men. This book is written for men by a man who has struggled in all of the same ways that men do and learned some valuable life lessons along the way. In today's culture, it is tough to define what it means to be a real man. How does a man function as a husband, father, and leader? This book is for the many men who have had no good model to follow and have had to flounder their way into and through manhood. This edition of Andrizo Man contains five powerful principles that will revolutionize your thinking regarding the qualities of manhood. It will show you the distinct differences between the papier-mâché man versus the authentic Andrizo man who assumes full responsibility for his actions and leads others with courage and compassion. This second edition is packed with new information and expanded revelations on manhood principles. At the end of each chapter, I summarize the most important themes, present honest and revealing questions for you to answer, and provide space for you to journal your thoughts. Finally, I have concluded this edition with an in-depth epilogue. As you evolve in your manhood journey, the 2nd Edition of Andrizo Man is a reinforcing resource and workbook that is worth reading and working through over and over again! ANDRIZO!
Download or read book Creating a Christian Lifestyle written by Carl Koch and published by Saint Mary's Press. This book was released on 2000-09-16 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Senior year is a pivotal moment in the life of teens, a time when young men and women are shaping their goals and hopes for the future and seeking spiritual guidance. Creating a Christian Lifestyle, a comprehensive one-semester course, addresses significant issues teens will face as they choose among the many life paths they may travel--single or married life, religious life, or ordained ministry. The text examines themes common to all those paths: identity and autonomy, love, communication, sexuality, friendship, creativity and learning, work, money and possessions, and suffering and healing. Thought-provoking stories, poems, and personal examples lead students into discussion; engaging activities invite reflection, discussion, and journal writing. The full-color lively design and over 50 original artworks by students stimulate students' interest.
Download or read book Gender Trouble in the U S Military written by Stephanie Szitanyi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates challenges to the U.S. military’s gender regime of hetero-male privilege. Examining a broad set of discursive maneuvers in a series of cases as focal points—integration of open homosexuality, the end of the combat ban on women, and the epidemic nature of military sexual assault within its units—Stephanie Szitanyi examines the contemporary link between gender and military service in the United States, and comprehensively analyzes forms of gendering produced by the military as an institution. Using feminist interpretivist methods to analyze an impressive combination of visual, textual, archival, and cultural materials, the book argues that despite policy changes since 2013 that may be positioned as explicit episodes of degendering, military officials have simultaneously moved to counteract them and reinforce the institution’s gender regime of hetero-male privilege. Importantly, these (re)gendering processes continue to prioritize certain forms of service and sacrifice, through which a specific version of masculinity—the masculine warrior—is continuously promoted, preserved, and cemented.
