Therapists, workshop co-leaders, and life partners Linda and Charlie Bloom have written a book that is more unusual than it should be. This book is packed with inspiring stories of pairs of people who manage to stay committed, to enjoy each other, and to move forward despite the many challenges life and marriage can...
The author also calls on the UN to establish a Special Rapporteur for Violence Against Men in parallel with the rapporteur that already exists to address violations against women...
Michael Gurian, the author of over twenty books mostly relating to children and/or gender, has devoted a new book to boys and purpose.
Journalist Richard Whitmire has written (and the American Management Association’s publishing wing AMACOM has published) a nuts-and-bolts book about boys’ failure to keep pace educationally with girls. Whitmire is not a gender warrior but is simply interested in fixing the problem, noting that colleges already face a 60-40 (or greater) imbalance in favor of...
The rate of circumcisions in the United States has declined precipitously during the past four years. The news was revealed at the recent 18th International AIDS Conference in Vienna, where Charbel El Bcheraoui, Ph.D. of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) gave a presentation stating that the newborn circumcision rate has plunged from 56% in...
The Royal Dutch Medical Association has published an official statement opposing male circumcision. A PDF of the full opinion is available here. ‘Violation of physical integrity’ Royal Dutch Medical Association (KNMG) to discourage non-therapeutic circumcision of male minors Utrecht, 27 May 2010 – The official standpoint of KNMG and other related medical/scientific organisations is that...
As announced in today’s print edition of the New York Times, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has reversed its May 1 policy statement that condoned certain forms of female genital cutting (FGC). The New York Times article can be found here and the policy statement can be found here. To date, by my...
Learning to identify gendered parenting differences and sort out which are problematic and which are emblematic of two parents acting in concert is what this book is about.
This is an open letter to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) in response to its recent position statement on female genital cutting (FGC), which condones minimal forms of FGC. The AAP position statement is available here. Dear AAP: We have reviewed the AAP’s latest policy statement on female genital cutting (FGC) and we...
The Male Brain. By Louann Brizendine, M.D. New York: Broadway Books, 2010. www.crownpublishing.com. 271 pp. $24.99. Psychiatrist Louann Brizendine, currently of the University of California, San Francisco and formerly of Harvard Medical School, has published the predictable followup to her bestselling book The Female Brain. This may be the most accessible book I have...
The Truth About Men: Revealing the Mysteries of the Men’s Weekends. By Howard J. Fox. Rhinebeck, New York: Epigraph Books, 2009. 153 pp. $16.95. www.epigraphPS.com; www.howardjfox.com Los Angeles-based “cooperative divorce†lawyer Howard J. Fox has produced a book that I believe is unique: a true introduction for the uninitiated to the benefits of and...
Exposing Men: The Science and Politics of Male Reproduction. By Cynthia R. Daniels. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. 260 pp. No price on book but publisher website gives price as $40.00. www.oup.com Rutgers University Associate Professor Political Science Cynthia R. Daniels has published Exposing Men; The Science and Politics of Male Reproduction, a...
With Violent Partners: A Breakthrough Plan for Ending the Cycle of Abuse, New York University Social Work and Law Professor Linda G. Mills has published her fourth book and her second book focused on domestic violence (DV) issues allied with men’s rights. As with her previous book on this topic, Insult to Injury: Rethinking...
The Good Men Project: Real Stories from the Front Lines of Modern Manhood. Edited by James Houghton, Larry Bean and Tom Matlack. Boston: The Good Men Foundation, 2009. $14.99. 251 pp. www.goodmenproject.org The Good Men Project, edited by a triumvirate of authors, makes a good first impression. It is an unassuming book, not wearing...
Heroes of the Blue Sky Rebellion. By Jack Kammer. Halethorpe, Maryland: Healthy Village Press, 2009. 99 pp. $9.95. www.blueskyrebellion.com Jack Kammer, author of two excellent previous volumes, Good Will Toward Men: Women Talk Candidly About the Balance of Power Between the Sexes and If Men Have All the Power, How Come Women Make the...
Married psychotherapist/author couple Judith Sherven and James Sniechowski have produced another book to help men and women to survive and thrive in their relationships with each other. As far as I know, Living Your Love Every Day is only available through Judith and Jim’s website page given above, and it probably isn’t the book...
Breaking the Shackles: Bringing Joy Into Our Lives. Edited by Roy U. Schenk and John Everingham. Madison, Wisconsin: MPC-BEP Press, 2005. www.shametojoy.com . 362 pp. $14.95. A decade after the original publication of Men Healing Shame , editors Roy U. Schenk and John Everingham have issued a revised version of their previously impossibly scarce...
Book Review Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men. By Leonard Sax. New York: Basic Books, 2007. www.boysadrift.com. 267 pp. $25.00. Leonard Sax, family physician and author of Why Gender Matters, has published his second book, and it’s simply superb. While I found his first...
The Feminist Dilemma: When Success is not Enough. By Diana Furchtgott-Roth and Christine Stolba. Washington, DC: The AEI Press, 2001. Diana Furchtgott-Roth and Christine Stolba, co-authors of the excellent Women’s Figures: An Illustrated Guide to the Economic Progress of Women in America (1999), have published their second book together. The Feminist Dilemma: When Success...
Taken into Custody: The War against Fathers, Marriage, and the Family. By Stephen Baskerville. Nashville, Tennessee: Cumberland House, 2007. www. Cumberlandhouse.com. 368 pp. US $24.95. Canadian $29.95. Stephen Baskerville, political science professor and past president of the American Coalition for Fathers and Children (ACFC), has published his first book, Taken into Custody: The War...
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