What Makes a Man: 22 Writers Imagine the FutureRebecca Walker One of Timemagazine's 50 Future Leaders of America brings together novelists, essayists, men, and women to talk about the future of masculinity. What does it mean to be male in the twenty-first century? What does the concept of masculinity even mean in the wake of four decades of modern feminism? What makes a man a man today and a woman a woman? Are those distinctions even real anymore? In this groundbreaking collection, Michael Datcher, Michael Moore, Anthony Swofford, Ruth Bettelheim, and a whole host of the world's most influential authors address these questions and many others. Through diverse themes that touch all of our lives-including sex, grief, power, money, family, privilege, violence, marriage, and work-these accomplished contributors lend their unique perspectives as they share their thoughts, experiences, and stories on forging new men and defining masculinity in a constantly changing world. Rebecca Walker's feminist anthology, To Be Real, published nearly a decade ago, is a standard text in women's studies courses across the country. Considered one of the defining texts of contemporary feminism, To Be Realsuccessfully bridged chasms between generations and ideologies. Similarly revolutionary and challenging in scope, What Makes a Manwill be the first book to articulate and define the contours and concerns of a new generation of men. |
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... hard at trying . So hard that my example has inspired Jenoyne to work harder herself . Our mutual diligence has us unearthing ele- ments of each other with the careful caution of world - class archeolo- gists . We have discovered the ...
... hard at trying . So hard that my example has inspired Jenoyne to work harder herself . Our mutual diligence has us unearthing ele- ments of each other with the careful caution of world - class archeolo- gists . We have discovered the ...
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... hard challenges up ahead . My father used to complain that his life was calamitous because he never knew his grandfather , who disappeared before he was born . Had he known him , my father said , he would never have lost his first ...
... hard challenges up ahead . My father used to complain that his life was calamitous because he never knew his grandfather , who disappeared before he was born . Had he known him , my father said , he would never have lost his first ...
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... hard that the cow dropped immediately to its knees like some ruined supplicant . I loved my immense , onomatopo- etic uncles , Harley and Burley , who'd storm into town after months on offshore oil rigs , the nimbus of gentleness around ...
... hard that the cow dropped immediately to its knees like some ruined supplicant . I loved my immense , onomatopo- etic uncles , Harley and Burley , who'd storm into town after months on offshore oil rigs , the nimbus of gentleness around ...
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Putting Down the Gun | 1 |
Malidoma Somé | 5 |
Martha Southgate | 17 |
Copyright | |
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