A positive vision for masculinity in a postfeminist world
Boys and men are struggling. Profound economic and social changes of recent decades have many losing ground in the classroom, the workplace, and in the family. While the lives of women have changed, the lives of many men have remained the same or even worsened.
Our attitudes, our institutions, and our laws have failed to keep up. Conservative and progressive politicians, mired in their own ideological warfare, fail to provide thoughtful solutions.
The father of three sons, a journalist, and a Brookings Institution scholar, Richard V. Reeves has spent twenty-five years worrying about boys both at home and work. His new book, Of Boys and Men, tackles the complex and urgent crisis of boyhood and manhood.
Reeves looks at the structural challenges that face boys and men and offers fresh and innovative solutions that turn the page on the corrosive narrative that plagues this issue. Of Boys and Men argues that helping the other half of society does not mean giving up on the ideal of gender equality.
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"Treats many of the difficulties faced by men, especially black men in modern society. These problems are not just in USA, but in almost every developed country. Some of his suggestions are excellent. Weaknesses: he is obsesses with employment in each profession matching the demographics in the general population. There are explanations for numeric differences other than bigotry. Men have only 1 X chromosome, so their distribution of traits is wider, explaining why there are more men at the TOP as well as the BOTTOM (prison, insane asylums, unemployed, killed on battle field)
The chapter on fear of black men was excellent. The chapters on men struggling in school was very good."
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bnevins (4 out of 5 stars)