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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... heart from the streets of Oakland : he'd been shot , stabbed with a knife and an ice pick and none of those things could take him out . But I know this illness is different . " It's going to be the fight of my life , " he says . Indeed ...
... heart from the streets of Oakland : he'd been shot , stabbed with a knife and an ice pick and none of those things could take him out . But I know this illness is different . " It's going to be the fight of my life , " he says . Indeed ...
Page 83
... heart one brings to the task . For malidoma somé malidoma somé him , an unwilling heart spoiled a service slowly becoming 83.
... heart one brings to the task . For malidoma somé malidoma somé him , an unwilling heart spoiled a service slowly becoming 83.
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... heart had come to oppose one another without me realizing it . First , I had to admit that my absent father , ignorance of life , black rage , and a host of other learned behaviors appeared in my mind as rites of passage into adulthood ...
... heart had come to oppose one another without me realizing it . First , I had to admit that my absent father , ignorance of life , black rage , and a host of other learned behaviors appeared in my mind as rites of passage into adulthood ...
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Putting Down the Gun | 1 |
Malidoma Somé | 5 |
Martha Southgate | 17 |
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