false 3753955 3 <blockquote> <p> Why do so many guys seem stuck between adolescence and adulthood? Why do so many of them fail to launch? Just what is going on with America's young men? </p> </blockquote> <p> The passage from adolescence to adulthood was once clear, coherent, and relatively secure: in their late teenage years and early twenties, guys "put away childish things" and entered their futures as responsible adults. Today growing up has become more complex and confusing as young men drift casually through college and beyond&#8212;hanging out, partying, playing with tech toys, watching sports. But beneath the appearance of a simple extended boyhood, a more dangerous social world has developed, far away from the traditional signposts and cultural signals that once helped boys navigate their way to manhood. </p> <p> The average young American man today is moving through a new stage of development, a buddy culture unfazed by the demands of parents, girlfriends, jobs, kids, and other nuisances of adult life. Sociologist and gender studies authority Michael Kimmel has identified this territory as "Guyland," a place that is both a stage of life and a new social arena. </p> <p> Guyland is the locker room writ large: the world where young men both test and prove themselves as men and develop the defining attitudes and self-images they will carry into adulthood. Kimmel has interviewed hundreds of young men ages sixteen to twenty-six in high schools and college fraternity houses, military academies and sports bars, to better understand Guyland's rules and restrictions, its layers of peer pressure and gender policing, its features and artifacts&#8212;from the ordinary (video games, sports, and music) to the extreme (violent fraternity initiations, sexual predation). </p> <p> In mapping the social world where tomorrow's men are made, Kimmel offers a view into the minds and times of America's sons, brothers, and boyfriends, and works toward redefining what it means to be a man today&#8212;and tomorrow. Only by understanding this world and this life stage can we enable young men to chart their own paths, to stay true to themselves, and to travel safely through Guyland, emerging as responsible and fully formed men of integrity and honor. </p> 3797819 1 9 2008 Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men total:97|5:16|4:39|3:27|2:13|1:2| 97 345 253 42 2 1 false false Thu Oct 09 09:52:55 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 09 10:01:05 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Jan 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 21:35:21 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 21:35:32 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun May 10 13:33:12 -0700 2009 Sun May 10 14:11:38 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 2 false false Fri May 01 06:35:39 -0700 2009 Fri May 01 06:38:54 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Apr 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 14 08:28:57 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 14 08:41:23 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Mar 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 22 08:25:31 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 08 09:12:44 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Oct 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 07:53:20 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 28 13:56:16 -0700 2009 Disturbingly enlightening. I think I need therapy after reading this book! The book doesn't just discuss the egregious behaviors of men ("guys") ages 16-26, but aspects of our culture that create, support, and protect the residents of "Guyland", despite the fact that most g...more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Oct 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 22:04:32 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 24 21:48:57 -0700 2009 ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jun 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 13 20:05:54 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 13 20:09:17 -0700 2009
"In the end we need to develop a new model of masculinity. Young men must understand on a deep level that being a real man isn't going along with what you know in your heart to be cruel, inhuman, stupid, humiliating, and da...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 15:04:51 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 03 16:03:52 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Aug 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 08 15:35:58 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 02 16:15:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Nov 02 17:02:15 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 02 17:33:25 -0800 2008 1 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Feb 25 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 27 22:31:39 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 17 20:35:21 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 29 14:35:58 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 26 10:28:54 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri May 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 13 17:26:13 -0700 2009 Fri May 15 11:36:58 -0700 2009
There were some interesting things in the book, but ultimately, this fell flat. ]]> 5 0 false false Tue Feb 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 03 10:41:50 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 10 12:58:45 -0800 2009
now, if only michael kimmel was 25 and sin...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Apr 22 06:25:15 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 22 06:26:26 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sun Aug 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 06 11:46:22 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 16 08:21:28 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Fri Jul 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 19:59:31 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 20:01:41 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Sun Jun 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 06:34:01 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 06:34:01 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=3753955