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What does it mean to be male in the twenty-first century? What does the concept of masculinity even mean in the wake of four decades of modern feminism? What makes a man a man today and a woman a woman? Are those distinctions even real anymore? In this groundbreaking collection, Michael Datcher, Michael Moore, Anthony Swofford, Ruth Bettelheim, and a whole host of the world's most influential authors address these questions and many others. Through diverse themes that touch all of our lives-including sex, grief, power, money, family, privilege, violence, marriage, and work-these accomplished contributors lend their unique perspectives as they share their thoughts, experiences, and stories on forging new men and defining masculinity in a constantly changing world.

Rebecca Walker's feminist anthology, To Be Real, published nearly a decade ago, is a standard text in women's studies courses across the country. Considered one of the defining texts of contemporary feminism, To Be Real successfully bridged chasms between generations and ideologies. Similarly revolutionary and challenging in scope, What Makes a Man will be the first book to articulate and define the contours and concerns of a new generation of men.]]> 2004 5 0 false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 03 00:55:53 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 03 01:31:16 -0700 2008 more...]]> 23625036 120663 86484 1594480680 9781594480683 8 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171068582m/86484.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171068582s/86484.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/86484.What_Makes_a_Man_22_Writers_Imagine_the_Future 3.50 48 Black, White and Jewish.

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