The 1990s will be the decade in which the men's movement emerges as a vital force for redefining masculinity. To Be a Man can serve as the bible for the new male by exploring such issues as suppressed wildness, grief, and shame, as well as perennial topics such as competition, work, fatherhood, and loving relationaships. The audience for this New Consciousnesss reader also includes women who seek to understand their husbands and sons.
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The nearly 90 pieces in this anthology introduce readers to the concept of the deep masculine, which, editor Thompson ( Angels and Aliens: UFOs and the Mythic Imagination ) says, "connotes ancient modes of adult manhood characterized by emotional richness and spiritual intensity." Yet another element in the burgeoning "men's movement," designed to produce a new male who exhibits a kinder, gentler machismo, the book explores masculine psychology, identity, sexuality and bonding. Sam Keen discusses the satisfaction a man takes in his work and providing for a family, and Robert Bly, in an interview with Thompson, examines the development of the enervated, disempowered "soft male" in need of both male initiation and father figures. Some arbitrarily chosen snippets from famous writers (Chandler, Kafka, Hesse) illuminate what it means to be male. Richard Haddad's manifesto for male liberation is at once angry and whining in its denial that men are privileged by society and its indictment of the women's movement for ignoring how men feel. Thompson's piece discussing the need for all-male sanctuaries is unctuous--a tone infecting most of the work.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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This book is a compilation of some of the greatest thinkers of the male, his needs, experiences, griefs, wants, desires, myths and shadow fiqures. It will confirm many feelings males often have in common yet we feel separate and different because of these feelings and experiences. This book embraces some of the most important information of our time. It is a must read for the thinking growing deep masculine self.
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