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Book Uneasy Manhood

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert Hicks
  • Publisher : Nashville : Oliver-Nelson Books
  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN : 9780840791252
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book Uneasy Manhood written by Robert Hicks and published by Nashville : Oliver-Nelson Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uneasy Manhood sheds sharp, piercing light on what every man secretly knows but won't admit. Manhood is tough. And men often feel uneasy. Uneasy as friends. Uneasy as husbands. Uneasy as fathers. Uneasy as sons. Uneasy as breadwinners. Now there's a solution. Read this book and take the first step toward a stronger, more balanced, more comfortable manhood.

Book False Roads To Manhood

Download or read book False Roads To Manhood written by F C Publishing, LLC and published by FC Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2005-08-10 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: False Roads to Manhood, subtitled, What Women Need To Know, What Men Need to Understand is the author’s seven journey of adventure, suspense and intrigue into the heart and soul of the secret life of manhood. This profound book invites those seeking wisdom, knowledge and understanding about the hidden truths of a lifetime to embark on a journey that answers questions about men that most people only think about but dare not ask. The journey will revolutionize the lives of men and women concerning the greatest issues of the millennium. Are you ready to travel into the critical zone of men’s inner emotions? Chase writes with surgical precision and guides men on an extraordinary journey through their souls, not only to help men understand themselves but informs women about today's "Adam" in Christ. The journey is for men on a trek for life’s purpose. At every crossroad, a decision must be made. This book shares personal behind the scene accounts from men of varying backgrounds. He teaches how men can unashamedly surrender their pain and get back on the road to healing and productive living. And for the success addicts who can’t stomach failure, False Roads To Manhood illuminates the road to balanced manhood. Find the right road and get off the false roads to discover the powerful man that God has called you to be. Breaking free from the false T.R.A.D.I.T.I.O.N.’s of men is paramount in this hour as men embark on a bold new journey. Chase uncovers jewels of information and presents a written state of the union address toanswer questions and shares wisdom, knowledge, and understanding with women. On his journey, Chase discloses the hidden truths behind the iron mask of manhood through astounding interviews from men of varying backgrounds.

Book Restless Men

    Book Details:
  • Author : K. Downing
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2014-06-25
  • ISBN : 113734895X
  • Pages : 237 pages

Download or read book Restless Men written by K. Downing and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-06-25 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robinson Crusoe's call to adventure and do-it-yourself settlement resonated with British explorers. In tracing the links in a discursive chain through which a particular male subjectivity was forged, Karen Downing reveals how such men took their tensions with them to Australia, so that the colonies never were a solution to restless men's anxieties.

Book Retiring Men

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gregory Wood
  • Publisher : University Press of America
  • Release : 2012-01-18
  • ISBN : 0761856803
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book Retiring Men written by Gregory Wood and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2012-01-18 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how aging men struggled to sustain identities as workers, breadwinners, and patriarchs—the core ideals of twentieth-century masculinity—in the midst of increasing employer demands for the speed and stamina of youth in workplaces and the expansion of mandatory retirement policies in the age of Social Security.

Book Uneasy Manhood

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert Hicks
  • Publisher : Fleming H Revell Company
  • Release : 1997-04-01
  • ISBN : 9780800756161
  • Pages : 251 pages

Download or read book Uneasy Manhood written by Robert Hicks and published by Fleming H Revell Company. This book was released on 1997-04-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaplain Robert Hicks asks why men feel so uneasy as friends, fathers, and husbands--and finds the answer in our changing and confusing culture. He points the way to a strong, balanced manhood in relationship with God.

Book The Christian Marriage

    Book Details:
  • Author : Chris S. Sherrerd
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9780971436114
  • Pages : 298 pages

Download or read book The Christian Marriage written by Chris S. Sherrerd and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Man of Honor

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  • Author : Jim Coté
  • Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Release : 2009-10
  • ISBN : 1458727300
  • Pages : 174 pages

Download or read book Man of Honor written by Jim Coté and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We Need Heroes, Heroes don't have to be famous or rich or powerful. Heroes are simply people who do the right thing, whether it's in front of millions or an audience of one. The courage to be selfless. The courage to risk danger. The courage to keep a commitment. That's a hero. Men are often confused by distortions of the media and changes in society. The corrective to these misunderstandings is found in a story of real people in a dangerous situation centuries ago in Israel. In that story Jim Cote introduces us to a man named Boaz who saw a wrong and righted it, who saw a need and met it, who used his God-given resources and talents to become a hero - the kind of hero we can become to the woman in our lives.

Book Anxious Masculinity in the Drama of Arthur Miller and Beyond

Download or read book Anxious Masculinity in the Drama of Arthur Miller and Beyond written by Claire Gleitman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-19 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the anxious male breadwinner as he is incarnated in Arthur Miller's most celebrated plays and as he resurfaces in different guises throughout American drama, from the 1950s to the present. It offers a compelling analysis of gender dynamics – staunchly homosocial, vaguely or overtly misogynistic, anxiously homophobic – and the legacy of this figure in the works of other American dramatists. Throughout, the book argues that the gendered anxieties exhibited by the anxious male breadwinner are the very ones invoked with such success by Donald Trump. Gleitman examines this figure in the plays of Tennessee Williams, later 20th century writers Lorraine Hansberry, David Mamet, August Wilson, and Sam Shepard (who reposition him in more racially and economically marginalized settings), and in the more recent work of Tony Kushner, Paula Vogel, and Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori, who shift their focus to the next generation, which seeks to escape his clutches and forge new, often gleefully queer identities. The final chapter concerns contemporary Black dramatists Suzan-Lori Parks, Jackie Sibblies Drury, and Jeremy O. Harris, whose plays move us from anxious masculinity to anxious whiteness and speak directly to the current moment.

Book Few Call It War

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert Michael Hicks
  • Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
  • Release : 2016-07-26
  • ISBN : 1630477869
  • Pages : 293 pages

Download or read book Few Call It War written by Robert Michael Hicks and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A highly readable and well-documented account of the use and abuse of religion for violent political ends . . . This is a book well worth reading” (Timothy J. Demy, ThD, PhD, coauthor of In the Name of God). Most Americans could not fathom how Islamic terrorists could bring down the World Trade Center or an army psychiatrist could turn on his own soldiers, taking their lives in the name of his religion. How could an ex-army veteran blow up a federal building, or a Jewish doctor gun down Muslims at worship? None of these incidents fit our conceptions of the benevolence of religion. More importantly, is there something inherent within religions that justifies the taking of human lives? In Few Call It War, Dr. Robert Hicks explores these questions and takes the blinders off illuminating the roots of religious violence, what religious terrorists have in common, and how they differ. As Hicks points out, all major religions have used violence and terrorist methodologies at some points in their histories. Few Call It War reveals how the teachings of religious founders and the sacred writings attributed to them provide rich soil from which contemporary religious clerics and ideologues gain converts. If one is interested in gaining an answer to the question, “Of all the religions in the world, which are most prone to using violence?” Few Call It War provides a well-reasoned answer that is well worth the read. “A masterpiece in the study of religiously motivated terrorism. He has been fair in his critique of all religions, including movements within Judaism and even Christianity.” —Robert L. Brennemann, PhD, professor, Intercultural Studies, North Central University

Book Political Manhood

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  • Author : Kevin P. Murphy
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2010-08-06
  • ISBN : 0231129971
  • Pages : 319 pages

Download or read book Political Manhood written by Kevin P. Murphy and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-06 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a 1907 lecture to Harvard undergraduates, Theodore Roosevelt claimed that colleges should never "turn out mollycoddles instead of vigorous men," warning that "the weakling and the coward are out of place in a strong and free community." A paradigm of ineffectuality and weakness, the mollycoddle was "all inner life," whereas his opposite, the "red blood," was a man of action. Kevin P. Murphy reveals how the popular ideals of American masculinity coalesced around these two distinct categories. Because of its similarity to the emergent "homosexual" type, the mollycoddle became a powerful rhetorical figure, often used to marginalize and stigmatize certain political actors. Murphy's history follows the redefinition of manhood across a variety of classes, especially in the work of late nineteenth-century reformers who trumpeted the virility of the laboring classes. Challenging the characterization of the relationship between political "machines" and social and municipal reformers at the turn of the twentieth century, he revolutionizes our understanding of the gendered and sexual meanings attached to political and ideological positions of the Progressive Era.

Book Millennial Missionaries

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  • Author : Katherine Dugan
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2018-12-03
  • ISBN : 0190875984
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book Millennial Missionaries written by Katherine Dugan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millennials in the U.S. have been characterized as uninterested in religion, as defectors from religious institutions, and as agnostic about the role of religious identity in their culture. Amid the rise of so-called "nones," though, there has also been a countervailing trend: an increase in religious piety among some millennial Catholics. The Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS), which began evangelizing college students on American university campuses in 1998, hires recent college graduates to evangelize college students and promote an attractive and culturally savvy Catholicism. These millennial Catholics have personal relationships with Jesus, attend Mass daily, and know and defend papal teachings, while also being immersed in U.S. popular culture. With their skinny jeans, devotional tattoos, and large-framed glasses, FOCUS missionaries embody a hip, attractive style of Catholicism. They promote a faith that interweaves distinctly Catholic identity with outreach methods of twentieth-century evangelical Protestants and the anxieties of middle-class emerging adulthood. Though this new generation of missionaries lives according to strict gender essentialism prescribed by papal teachings-including the notions that men lead while women follow and that biology dictates gender roles-they also support stay-at-home fatherhood and women earning MBAs. Millennial Missionaries examines how these young people navigate their Catholic and American identities in the twenty-first century. Illuminating the ways missionaries are reshaping American Catholic identity, Katherine Dugan explores the contemporary U.S. religious landscape from the perspective of millennials who proudly proclaim "I am Catholic"-and devote years of their lives to convincing others to do the same.

Book Men   Masculinities  2 volumes

Download or read book Men Masculinities 2 volumes written by Michael S. Kimmel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-12-11 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first encyclopedia to analyze, summarize, and explain the complexities of men's lives and the idea of modern manhood. The process of "making masculinity visible" has been going on for over two decades and has produced a prodigious and interesting body of work. But until now the subject has had no authoritative reference source. Men & Masculinities, a pioneering two-volume work, corrects the oversight by summarizing the latest historical, biological, cross-cultural, psychological, and sociological research on the subject. It also looks at literature, art, and music from a gender perspective. The contributors are experts in their specialties and their work is directed, organized, and coedited by one of the premier scholars in the field, Michael Kimmel. The coverage brings together for the first time considerable knowledge of men and manhood, focusing on such areas as sexual violence, intimacy, pornography, homophobia, sports, profeminist men, rituals, sexism, and many other important subjects. Clearly, this unique reference is a valuable guide to students, teachers, writers, policymakers, journalists, and others who seek a fuller understanding of gender in the United States.

Book Man of Honor  EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition

Download or read book Man of Honor EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition written by and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book National Manhood

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dana D. Nelson
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 1998-10-14
  • ISBN : 0822382148
  • Pages : 362 pages

Download or read book National Manhood written by Dana D. Nelson and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1998-10-14 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Manhood explores the relationship between gender, race, and nation by tracing developing ideals of citizenship in the United States from the Revolutionary War through the 1850s. Through an extensive reading of literary and historical documents, Dana D. Nelson analyzes the social and political articulation of a civic identity centered around the white male and points to a cultural moment in which the theoretical consolidation of white manhood worked to ground, and perhaps even found, the nation. Using political, scientific, medical, personal, and literary texts ranging from the Federalist papers to the ethnographic work associated with the Lewis and Clark expedition to the medical lectures of early gynecologists, Nelson explores the referential power of white manhood, how and under what conditions it came to stand for the nation, and how it came to be a fraternal articulation of a representative and civic identity in the United States. In examining early exemplary models of national manhood and by tracing its cultural generalization, National Manhood reveals not only how an impossible ideal has helped to form racist and sexist practices, but also how this ideal has simultaneously privileged and oppressed white men, who, in measuring themselves against it, are able to disavow their part in those oppressions. Historically broad and theoretically informed, National Manhood reaches across disciplines to engage those studying early national culture, race and gender issues, and American history, literature, and culture.

Book Troubled Fields

Download or read book Troubled Fields written by Eric Ramírez-Ferrero and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2006, a cartoon in a Danish newspaper depicted the Prophet Mohammed wearing a bomb in his turban. The cartoon created an international incident, with offended Muslims attacking Danish embassies and threatening the life of the cartoonist. Editorial cartoons have been called the most extreme form of criticism society will allow, but not all cartoons are tolerated. Unrestricted by journalistic standards of objectivity, editorial cartoonists wield ire and irony to reveal the naked truths about presidents, celebrities, business leaders, and other public figures. Indeed, since the founding of the republic, cartoonists have made important contributions to and offered critical commentary on our society. Today, however, many syndicated cartoons are relatively generic and gag-related, reflecting a weakening of the newspaper industry's traditional watchdog function. Chris Lamb offers a richly illustrated and engaging history of a still vibrant medium that "forces us to take a look at ourselves for what we are and not what we want to be." The 150 drawings in Drawn to Extremes have left readers howling-sometimes in laughter, but often in protest.

Book Acts of Manhood

Download or read book Acts of Manhood written by K. Kippola and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-08-20 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the performance of masculinity on and off the nineteenth-century American stage, this book looks at the shift from the passionate muscularity to intellectual restraint as not a linear journey toward national refinement; but a multitude of masculinities fighting simultaneously for dominance and recognition.

Book The Journey Back to Eden

Download or read book The Journey Back to Eden written by Glen G. Scorgie and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2009-12-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Men, women, and equality:Where is the Bible pointing us?Join the journey through the pages of Scripture and across history to see the trajectory of the Spirit. Can it be that he is taking the church back to personal wholeness and relational harmony that have eluded men and women since the Fall in the garden?Based on a high view of Scripture, this fresh look at the biblical landscape• corrects misunderstandings of biblical statements on gender.• demonstrates that some texts applied only to the unique historical situations they addressed.• discerns the overall direction that the Holy Spirit is taking, calling the church to embrace a vision of gender equality, freedom, and mutuality.Written in an accessible style, The Journey Back to Eden offers hope and encouragement to men and women who are perplexed by gender stereotypes. The book includes questions for individual reflection or group discussion.