Download or read book Our Lost Manhood The Loss and Rebuilding of Masculinity in America written by C. T. B. Harris and published by Wellness Inst. This book was released on 2001-11-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide looks at manhood in a society where the male role has changed dramatically. Dr. Harris cuts through the confusion surrounding the definition of masculinity and provides tools that help readers find answers to their concerns over masculinity.
Download or read book Escaping the Chaos Within written by Nancy Mercurio and published by Wellness Institute, Inc.. This book was released on 2001-09 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of one woman's journey into healing. Typical of the modern woman, Nancy Mercurio was a wife, a mother, owned and operated one business, was co-owner of a second, taught three classes per semester at a community college PLUS took classes to complete her master's degree. She was over-extended and overwhelmed. Added to her career stresses, Nancy had undergone eleven surgeries and was placed in a full body cast twice, once for nine months. She had also been physically and mentally abused, married and divorced, was a single parent, and had lost both brother and roommate in tragic deaths. Her life was one of inner chaos. This book is about Nancy Mercurio's escape from the chaos within. With the health of a Naturopathic Physcician, Nancy slowed down, re-established her priorities, developed a healthy eating habit, and improved physically, emotionally, spiritually, and socially. In this book, Nancy she her experience and offers helpful suggestions for the mordern working woman obsessed with getting ahead. Interesting and helping reading.
Download or read book Emasculation of the Unicorn written by Bud Harris and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Unicorn runs free -- but it's idealistic, too. Harris is a Jungian analyst who has written a book for men -- for men who want to deal with heroics and responsibility, feelings and masculinity. Not a "touchy-feely" book -- Harris helps men gain insight into their positive role in America today, a role that encompasses the spirit as well as the feminine.
Download or read book Manhood in America written by Michael S. Kimmel and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book What Women Should Know about Men written by Herb Goldberg and published by Wellness Institute, Inc.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Every Woman Should Know About MenThis stimulating and provocative book by best selling author Herb Goldberg is about the power women potentially have in their relationships with men, and the way to use that power to bring out the best in men's relationship behaviors, while creating for women the kind of love experience they grew up to believe was possible. The way women have traditionally been socialized to relate to men to men actually brings out many men's worst personal features. The end result is a woman who becomes increasingly bitter toward men who can't figure out what they are doing wrong. What Every Woman Should Know About Men explains woman's amazing power over men. It explains why men won't open up, how to handle your man top 12 blind spots, what he won't say but wants you to know, and how to change him. Most importantly, this book explains why men need women more than women need men.One of the most valuable books every written in terms of helping women understand men. Simple, easy to read and understand, and ful of priceless tips and suggestions.About The AuthorDr. Herb Goldberg is and internationally recognized relationship specialist and best selling author of The Hazards Of Being Male and seven other widely selling books. His ground breaking work on the failure of many traditional relationships has simulated a great of work and discussion. He is a Professor Emeritus at Southern California State University and lives in Los Angeles.
Download or read book Missing from Action written by Weldon M. Hardenbrook and published by Thomas Nelson Publishers. This book was released on 1987 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether Dad's absence stems from divorce, passive withdrawal, or his never having been a permanent part of the household, fatherless families number in the millions. The result: imbalanced family lives and children -- especially boys -- who may grow up with the same devil-may-care attitudes because of the lack of a male role model. Weldon Hardenbrook claims that men "have lost their way to true manhood and thrown responsibility to the wind." Thus, women have had to take over as disciplinarians and breadwinners and serve as both mother and father to their children. When this happens, warns Hardenbrook, "it threatens the stability of an entire society. Dad's disappearance is exacting a disastrous toll on those around him." What can today's family do? How can men regain their roles as leaders in home, church, and society? Hasn't Dad been missing long enough? Hardenbrook gives answers in Missing from Action. - Jacket flap.
Download or read book Lifedance written by Lucille Osterweil and published by Wellness Institute, Inc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The LifedanceAs human beings we are both unique individuals and social creatures who need others for both our physical and emotional well being. Our life is thus characterized by two conflicting urges-to satisfy our own needs or to defer to the needs of others. How to keep a satisfactory balance between these opposing pulls is the subject of The Lifedance. The attitudes and skills enabling us to perform this back and forth "dance" between autonomy and mutuality are clearly described. Interesting vignettes of people caught in the typical dilemmas of the Lifedance are provided. Exercises are provided at the end of each chapter to test reader's understanding of the attitudes and skills presented.This fascinating book is written in a lively, accessible style and provides important information helpful for people having difficulty keeping this crucial balance."A delightful and novel book full of valuable information that readers will find very helpful."Harold Dawley, Ph.D., Clinical PsychologistLucille Osterweil is a clinical psychologist who has spent 30 years helping clients achieve the difficult balance between autonomy and mutuality. In addition to her clinical practice, Dr. Osterweil has also taught psychology at the university level as well as to psychiatry residents.
Download or read book When Someone You Love is Addicted to Sex written by Mic Hunter and published by Wellness Institute, Inc.. This book was released on 2000-11 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative guide to explaining the tragic life of individuals addicted to sex, offers helpful information to their partners who struggle with it.
Download or read book American Manhood written by E. Anthony Rotundo and published by . This book was released on 1993-05-04 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first history of American manhood offers a comprehensive account of our uunderstanding of what it's like to be a man, and how this perception has changed with time. Index.
Download or read book Staying Cool written by Joel D. Block and published by Wellness Institute, Inc.. This book was released on 2002-02 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anger is a completely normal, usually healthy human emotion--when it is under control. "Keeping Cool" is a guide for teens (and their parents) to using anger constructively, filled with real-life examples and ready-to-use tips.
Download or read book Death of Manhood written by Rj Derby and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-12-13 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finding a way to connect with the masculine is something that is lacking within the world nowadays. Many men appear to be shackled by societal shame when it comes to being masculine; they are also layered with guilt if they display their birth given right to be masculine. Over the last decade, boys and young men have been taught a lot of nonsense about what it means to be a man, they have been programmed to believe notions that honestly do not serve them as men, which has resulted in the soft, weak and feminised men seen today in society. RJ Derby's Death of Manhood: The Societal Destruction of Masculinity is a short but direct book, a call to men to start taking responsibility and begin moving away from the lies they have been fed by a society that seems set on destroying the true essence of a man. If you're a man looking to change yourself, if you're a young man seeking a way to recognise your true potential as a man, if you're a woman trying to find ways to better understand your husband, son, nephew, friend, then this powerful read is for you. Loaded with insights and hard truths about the destruction of masculinity in modern society, RJ Derby's Death of Manhood is a book that should be read by every man. "Becoming a masculine man and embracing masculinity is not a sin against anyone or anything, no matter what the naysayers may try to preach. It is the role of being a man, something that shouldn't be ridiculed and hated, but also something that shouldn't be glorified or praised or even worshipped. It should only always be expected, only this and nothing else. It is expected of women to embrace their femininity, and so it should be expected of men to embrace their masculinity without contempt and made to feel ashamed for doing what is natural. Men, real masculine men are now but a few in today's world due to the overwhelming demands society has placed upon them and what it thinks men should amount to. It has left the remaining billions of men soft, weak, and fragile. If society continues its the annihilation of masculinity, sooner rather than later, we will all witness the destruction of civilisation as we know it." ~ RJ Derby
Download or read book Stiffed written by Susan Faludi and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guyland written by Michael Kimmel and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most eminent scholars and writers on men and masculinity and the author of the critically acclaimed Manhood in America turns his attention to the culture of guys, aged 16 to 26: their attitudes, their relationships, their rules, and their rituals. “Kimmel is our seasoned guide into a world that, unless we are guys, we barely know exists. As he walks with us through dark territories, he points out the significant and reflects on its meaning.”—Mary Pipher, Ph.D., author of Reviving Ophelia The passage from adolescence to adulthood was once clear. Today, growing up has become more complex and confusing, as young men drift casually through college and beyond—hanging out, partying, playing with tech toys, watching sports. But beneath the appearance of a simple extended boyhood, a more dangerous social world has developed, far away from the traditional signposts and cultural signals that once helped boys navigate their way to manhood—a territory Michael Kimmel has identified as "Guyland." In mapping the troubling social world where men are now made, Kimmel offers a view into the minds and times of America's sons, brothers, and boyfriends, and he works toward redefining what it means to be a man today—and tomorrow. Only by understanding this world and this life stage can we enable young men to chart their own paths, stay true to themselves, and emerge safely from Guyland as responsible and fully formed male adults.
Download or read book American Manhood written by Bret Carroll and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2025-05-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the concepts of manhood and masculinity have assumed an established place in gender and historical studies and masculinity is the subject of wide popular interest and discussion, there is currently no up-to-date, comprehensive historical overview of the subject. American Manhood will introduce readers to the dynamic interplay between the perceptions and experiences we call “masculinity” and major social, cultural, political, and economic developments in our history. Its central argument will be that Americans of different racial, class, ethnic, and regional groups have historically used concepts of masculine identity to gender relations of power and national belonging in ways that attempt either to entrench or to stake their claims to positions of authority and legitimacy in American life. Gender, the book assumes and will demonstrate, provides a crucial analytic category for understanding U.S. history. The book will cover the period from roughly the early seventeenth century to the present. It will utilize a combination of chronological and topical approaches to present a state-of-the-art narrative, reflective of current historical scholarship, to a broad general audience. The anticipated audience will bring to their reading a familiarity with recent popular discussions of masculinity; American Manhood will use accessible prose to reveal to them the enormous complexity, diversity, and historical rootedness of the topic – to deepen readers’ understanding of a subject they thought they knew.
Download or read book The Man They Wanted Me to Be written by Jared Yates Sexton and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative, “critically important” memoir of working-class boyhood in rural Indiana offers a searing cultural analysis of toxic masculinity in American culture (NPR). As progressivism changes American society, and globalism shifts labor away from traditional manufacturing, the roles that have been prescribed to men since the Industrial Revolution have been rendered obsolete. Donald Trump's campaign successfully leveraged male resentment and entitlement, and now, with Trump as president and the rise of the #MeToo movement, it’s clear that our current definitions of masculinity are outdated and even dangerous. Deeply personal and thoroughly researched, the author of The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore has turned his keen eye to our current crisis of masculinity using his upbringing in rural Indiana to examine the personal and societal dangers of the patriarchy. The Man They Wanted Me to Be examines how we teach boys what’s expected of men in America, and the long–term effects of that socialization―which include depression, shorter lives, misogyny, and suicide. Sexton turns his keen eye to the establishment of the racist patriarchal structure which has favored white men, and investigates the personal and societal dangers of such outdated definitions of manhood. “ . . . exposes the true cost of toxic masculinity . . . and takes aim at the patriarchal structures in American society that continue to uphold an outdated ideal of manhood.” —Book Riot
Download or read book Childhood to Manhood Ingredients for Young African American Men written by Devin D. Brown D. Min. and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2020-01-15 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Devin D. Brown is one of many African American men who grew up without guidance from a father. He had to learn from his own mistakes and his own losses. While experience has taught him well, he wrote this book to help families who want to prevent African American young men from making mistakes in the first place. In clear, candid language, he explores how to: - maintain a cultural connection with the black community even if you live in a white neighborhood; - encourage children to embrace Jesus Christ as a critical part of their life; - teach children right versus wrong; - recognize and fight systemic racism. The author also shares the lessons he learned about the three Ws - wealth, work ethic, and women - through losing jobs and other failures. Knowing about these three things are vital to the survival of African American men.
Download or read book Manhood Impossible written by Scott Melzer and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-31 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Manhood Impossible, Scott Melzer argues that boys’ and men’s bodies and breadwinner status are the two primary sites for their expression of control. Controlling selves and others, and resisting being dominated and controlled is most connected to men’s bodies and work. However, no man can live up to these culturally ascendant ideals of manhood. The strategies men use to manage unmet expectations often prove toxic, not only for men themselves, but also for other men, women, and society. Melzer strategically explores the lives of four groups of adult men struggling with contemporary body and breadwinner ideals. These case studies uncover men’s struggles to achieve and maintain manhood, and redefine what it means to be a man.
