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The Film Club: A Memoir
by David Gilmour  
Powells.com Staff Pick What kind of father would allow his son to drop out of high school as long as the kid agreed to watch three movies of the father's choosing each week? Want to start an interesting conversation about parenting and education? Talk about what Gilmour did...
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Getting Off : Pornography and the End of Masculinity (07 Edition)
by Robert Jensen Publisher Comments In our culture, porn makes the man. So argues Robert Jensen in Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity. Jensen's treatise begins with a simple demand: "Be a man."It ends with a defiant response: "I chose to struggle to be a human being."The...
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Save the Males: Why Men Matter Why Women Should Care
by Kathleen Parker Publisher Comments Tell a woman we need to save the males and she'll give you the name of her shrink. But cultural provocateur Kathleen Parker, who was raised by her father and who mothered a pack of boys, makes a humorous case for rescuing the allegedly stronger sex from...
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King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine
by Robert Moore Publisher Comments Arguing that mature masculinity is not abusive or domineering, but generative, creative, and empowering of the self and others, Moore and Gillette provide a Jungian introduction to the psychological foundations of a mature, authentic, and revitalized...
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The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
by bell hooks Publisher Comments Everyone needs to love and be loved — even men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the ways that patriarchal culture keeps them from knowing themselves, from being in touch with their feelings, from loving. In The Will to Change, bell...
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Understanding Men's Passages: Discovering the New Map of Men's Lives
by Gail Sheehy Publisher Comments Her stunning bestsellers Passages and New Passages brilliantly mapped the changes we live through from youth to maturity. Now Gail Sheehy guides contemporary men through the turbulent challenges and surprising pleasures that begin at forty. As a man...
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The Metrosexual Guide to Style: A Handbook for the Modern Man
by Michael Flocker Publisher Comments This entertaining and up-to-the-minute handbook offers practical advice for these most modern of men. Hip, irreverent, and informative, it covers fashion, grooming, cocktails, home decor, etiquette and much, much more....
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Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man
by Sam Keen Publisher Comments How does one become a "real man"? By joining a fraternity? Getting a letter in football? Conquering a lot of women? Making a lot of money? With traditional notions of manhood under attack, today's men (and women) are looking for a new vision of...
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How to Be a Gentleman: A Contemporary Guide to Common Courtesy
by John Bridges Publisher Comments A true gentleman is comfortable with traditional etiquette, and John Bridges covers all bases. From writing thank you notes to selecting a nice bottle of wine to responding to e-mail, Bridges explains etiquette is also explained for every situation....
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New Male Sexuality : the Truth About Men, Sex, and Pleasure (Rev 99 Edition)
by Bernie Zilbergeld Publisher Comments "The New Male Sexuality addresses the most urgent questions of men today--and of the women who love them. Bernie Zilbergeld reports findings from his twenty years as a psychologist specializing in human sexuality, as well as those other experts in the...
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Gods in Everyman Reissue: Archetypes That Shape Men's Lives
by Jean Shinoda Bolen Publisher Comments In this challenging and enlightening companion volume to the bestselling Goddesses in Everywoman, Jean Shinoda Bolen turns her attention to the powerful inner patterns--or archetypes--that shape men's personalities, careers, and personal relationships...
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Dude, You're a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School (07 Edition)
by C. J. Pascoe Publisher Comments High school and the difficult terrain of sexuality and gender identity are brilliantly explored in this smart, incisive ethnography. Based on eighteen months of fieldwork in a racially diverse working-class high school, "Dude, You're a Fag "sheds new...
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Big Black Penis: Misadventures in Race and Masculinity
by Shawn Taylor Publisher Comments Being black and male is a serious business, but its absurd contradictions are often too funny for words. In this award-winning book, Shawn Taylor deftly leads us on a no-holds-barred tour of his masculine development, acknowledging some deep but often...
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Men and Masculinity #3: The Meanings of Macho: Being a Man in Mexico City
by Matthew C. Gutmann Publisher Comments In this compelling study of machismo in Mexico City, Matthew Gutmann overturns many stereotypes of male culture in Mexico and offers a sensitive and often surprising look at how Mexican men see themselves, parent their children, relate to women, and talk...
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Thirteen Ways of Looking At a Black Man (97 Edition)
by Henry Louis Gates Publisher Comments "This is a book of stories," writes Henry Louis Gates, "and all might be described as 'narratives of ascent.'" As some remarkable men talk about their lives, many perspectives on race and gender emerge. For the notion of the unitary black man, Gates...
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The Score: How the Quest for Sex Has Shaped the Modern Man
by Faye Flam Publisher Comments A smart, witty, and fresh look at the male side of the male-female relationship from a science writer and sex columnist at The Philadelphia Inquirer. Beginning with a "boot camp" for wannabe pickup artistswhere men pay thousands of dollars for three days...
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US Guys: The True and Twisted Mind of the American Man
by Charlie Leduff Publisher Comments Heir to Jack Kerouac and Hunter S. Thompson, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Charlie LeDuff scours the country, tossing back whiskey with the seedy, the dreamy, and the strange in search of the soul of the American male. No one knows life's...
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Peacocks, Chameleons, Centaurs : Gay Suburbia and the Grammar of Social Identity (03 Edition)
by Wayne H. Brekhus Publisher Comments What does it mean to be a gay man living in the suburbs? Do you identify primarily as gay, or suburban, or some combination of the two? For that matter, how does anyone decide what his or her identity is? <BR>In this first-ever ethnography of...
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Iron John: A Book about Men
by Robert Bly Publisher Comments In this deeply learned book, poet and translator Robert Bly offers nothing less than a new vision of what it is to be a man. Bly's vision is based on his ongoing work with men and reflections on his own life. He addresses the devastating effects of...
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Reaching Up for Manhood : Transforming the Lives of Boys in America (98 Edition)
by Geoffrey Canada Publisher Comments 'The author of Fist Stick Knife Gun brings powerful new insight to the lives of boys in America today: \"More and more I have become concerned with what boys think they should be, and what they believe it means to be a man.\" He lays out the little...
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