Transforming Manhood
Title | Transforming Manhood PDF eBook |
Author | Ryan K. Sallans |
Publisher | Scout Publishing LLC |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 2019-09-24 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780989586870 |
What does it mean to be a husband? What does it mean to be a trans man? What does it mean to be an American man, speaking up and speaking out in today's divisive climate? Ryan Sallans, transgender educator and lecturer, follows up his successful Second Son autobiography with this thought-provoking look at life in contemporary America. While the term "trans" has become much more visible, the undercurrents of what it actually means still rumbles beneath the surface. In this second searing memoir, Sallans leads his readers on a trip through domestic bliss and family fractures, speaking successes and online harassment, personal heights and dizzying falls. In Transforming Manhood, the author confides what it means to be a public personality, showcasing how his profile has earned him adulation, as well as accusations. This follow-up to Second Son will inspire anyone who has ever fought personal demons to become the best possible person they had imagined. Through eye-opening discussions on college campuses, heart-to-heart talks with worried parents in America's heartland, and scary real-life stalking experiences, Sallans has overcome much and has grown from these encounters. Transforming Manhood is a book that chronicles Sallans's everyday struggles to transition into being a better husband, son, and man. It's a book that pleads for the LGBTQ community to come together and place their differences aside. In today's political climate, it's a call for mutual understanding and for standing up for what you believe in. Transforming Manhood continues the story of Ryan Sallans's life, but more than that: it spotlights his hope and encouragement for a better, optimistic, unified future for everyone.
Manhood Impossible
Title | Manhood Impossible PDF eBook |
Author | Scott Melzer |
Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
Pages | 293 |
Release | 2018-08-31 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0813584914 |
In Manhood Impossible, Scott Melzer argues that boys’ and men’s bodies and breadwinner status are the two primary sites for their expression of control. Controlling selves and others, and resisting being dominated and controlled is most connected to men’s bodies and work. However, no man can live up to these culturally ascendant ideals of manhood. The strategies men use to manage unmet expectations often prove toxic, not only for men themselves, but also for other men, women, and society. Melzer strategically explores the lives of four groups of adult men struggling with contemporary body and breadwinner ideals. These case studies uncover men’s struggles to achieve and maintain manhood, and redefine what it means to be a man.
Reaching Up for Manhood
Title | Reaching Up for Manhood PDF eBook |
Author | Geoffrey Canada |
Publisher | Beacon Press |
Pages | 180 |
Release | 2000-11-07 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 0807023221 |
From a troubled youth navigating the mean streets of the South Bronx to an inspiring educational activist who evokes praise from the likes of President Barack Obama, Geoffrey Canada has made a remarkable personal journey that cemented his dedication to underserved youth. His award-winning work was featured in Davis Guggenheim’s documentary Waiting for “Superman,” and he has been hailed by media, activists, teachers, and national leaders. Michelle Obama called him “one of my heroes,” and Oprah Winfrey refers to him as “an angel from God.” Here, Canada draws on his years of work with inner-city youth and on his own turbulent boyhood to offer a moving and revelatory look at the little-understood emotional lives of boys. And who better for this task than the man Elizabeth Mehren of the Los Angeles Times calls “one of this country’s leading advocates for youth.”
Mascupathy
Title | Mascupathy PDF eBook |
Author | Charlie Donaldson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 158 |
Release | 2014-06-01 |
Genre | Masculinity |
ISBN | 9780615898919 |
Men often behave badly, and it's easy to assume that's just the way they are. Some can be grandiose and aggressive; many others are good guys but emotionally absent and relationally disappointing. Psychologists Charlie Donaldson and Randy Flood contend, however, that most men's behavior is neither capricious or malevolent, but a product of a socialized disorder "mascupathy" - an exaggeration of the genetically masculine traits (aggression and invulnerability) and minimal expression of inherently feminine characteristics (openness and sensitivity). Committed to helping men achieve rich, engaged lives, the authors propose a revolutionary way to think about men. Mascupathy shines a bright light of understanding, revealing unexpected transformations of men in stirring clinical accounts. This is an eye, mind, and heart-opening book full of compelling reasons to feel optimistic about the future of men and the people who love them.
American Manhood
Title | American Manhood PDF eBook |
Author | E. Anthony Rotundo |
Publisher | |
Pages | 408 |
Release | 1993-05-04 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN |
This first history of American manhood offers a comprehensive account of our uunderstanding of what it's like to be a man, and how this perception has changed with time. Index.
Manhood Restored
Title | Manhood Restored PDF eBook |
Author | Eric Mason |
Publisher | B&H Publishing Group |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1433679949 |
New church voice Eric Mason addresses the cultural and spiritual crises within manhood head-on, presenting a gospel-centered vision that points men back to God's original intent for their lives.
We Real Cool
Title | We Real Cool PDF eBook |
Author | Bell Hooks |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Pages | 190 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780415969277 |
Discusses what black males fear most, their longing for intimacy, the pitfalls of patriarchy, and the destruction of oppression through redemption and love.