What Makes a Man?

WRC Suggested Reading Lists:

What Makes a Man? A Selected Reading List


The Adonis Complex: The Secret Crisis Of Male Body Obsession
(Pope & Phillips) 2000

Allies In Healing: When the Person You Love Was Sexually Abused As a Child (Davis) 1991

American Manhood: Transformations In Masculinity From the Revolution To the Modern Era (Rotundo) 1993

Boys and Their Toys? Masculinity, Class and Technology In America (Horowitz) 2001

Chick For a Day: What Would You do If You Were One? (Giles) 2000

Father Courage: What Happens Mien Men Put Family First (Levine) 2000

JarHead: A Marine's Chronicle Of the Gulf War and Other Battles (Swofford) 2003

Man Enough: Fathers, Sons and the Search for Masculinity (Pittman) 1993

Manhood In America: A Cultural History (Kimmel) c1996,1997

The Men and the Boys (Connell) 2000 Men's Lives (Kimmel & Messner) 2004

Mothers and Sons: Feminism, Masculinity, and the Struggle To Raise Our Sons (O'Reilly) 2001

The Pain Behind the Mask: Overcoming Masculine Depression (Lynch & Kilmartin) 1999

Race Men (Carby) 1998

Rape On Prime Time: Television, Masculinity and Sexual Violence (Cuklanz) 2000

The Rites Of Men: Manhood, Politics, and the Culture Of Sport (Burstyn) 1999

Running Scared: Masculinity and the Representation Of the Male Body (Lehmer) 1993

Stiffed: The Betrayal Of the American Man (Faludi) c1999, 2000

Stopping Rape: A Challenge For Men (Funk) 1993

To Be An Anchor In the Storm: A Guide For Families and Friends Of Abused Women (Brewster) 1997

What Makes a Man: Twenty-Two Writers Imagine the Future (Walker) 2004

When You Are the Partner Of a Rape Or Incest Survivor: A Workbook For You (Levine) 1996

White Guys: Studies In Postmodern Domination and Difference (Pfeil) 1995

Wounded Boys, Heroic Men: A Man's Guide To Recovering From Child Abuse (Sonkin) 1998

You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men In Conversation (Tannen) c1990, 1001