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Title: Boys Will Be Men by Paul Kivel ISBN: 0-86571-395-2 Publisher: New Society Publishers Pub. Date: 15 August, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Don't you love your son?
Comment: Don't you love your son? Don't you want him to be happy and successful? I beg you, please don't destroy his life by submitting him to the tripe espoused by Paul Kivel!
Allow me to explain what will happen to your little man should you proceed with this purchase and embrace the philosophies within. First, he's going to get beat up. A lot. After you explain to him that "violence doesn't solve anything" and you refuse to let him retaliate, he will grow confused and his grades will begin to suffer. (After all, violence solved the little dilemma about what to spend his lunch money on, didn't it?). Having already fallen out of favor with his classmates for being a sniveling coward, his teacher will now begin to harrass him about his classroom performance. And the poor little guy will have to go home to you telling him to quell every urge and instinct that he has as a male. He will feel afraid. Lost. Unaccepted and ostrasized at every turn. He will grow quiet and shy. He won't be able to use the restroom with the other boys watching. And he will retreat further and further within himself, which will cause him to get beat up more, which will cause his grades to suffer, which will invoke still more of your flawed philosphies about child-rearing........and the vicious circle continues.
At best, he will grow into a "geek" and be capable of interaction solely with computers. He will never have a date, a first kiss, a son of his own. His lack of social skills will relegate him to the janitorial profession. His life will pass without love or friendship or acceptance or understanding.
At worst, the term "loner" will be applied to him after yet another school tragedy.
Surely you'd want to avoid either of these scenarios, right?
If you are a single mother struggling with how to raise a boy, I am sympathetic to that. But instead of filling both your minds with senseless garbage about "equality" and "racism" and "homophobia", I suggest that you go out and get yourself a man. And I mean a real MAN. The kind that can kill a saber-toothed tiger with one blow from a stone axe. That's what the both of you need: a proper role model for your young son, and someone who can protect and provide for you.
However, if you ARE married, please march up to your husband right now and explain to him why you want to turn his strapping young man into a frightened, insecure loser.
Rating: 5
Summary: Outstanding anti-violence resource for schools & parents
Comment: Paul Kivel has done it again with this excellent, pragmatic piece on how to challenge the forces that harm young men (and young women) in schools and families. As a professor of school and family counseling, I am always searching for pragmatic, effective, down-to-earth resources that will assist students, parents, counselors, teachers, and all others concerned about our youth. Kivel brings his substantial experience as an anti-oppression educator and activist from his work with the Oakland Men's Center into his latest work. Having seen him do his workshops live, knowing his unique abilities to affirm boys and men across all cultural identities, this work continues his excellent pragmatic scholarship in creating safe schools and families for all. Highly recommended and I have adopted it for use in my school counseling courses.
Rating: 1
Summary: Stone-Age Sociology
Comment: Don't waste your money or your time on this book. The author is still stuck in the now debunked and outdated "Standard Social Science Model" of human behavior. He sees only the "nurture" side of the "nature vs. nurture" debate and refuses to aknowledge the role nature (biology and evolution) plays. Current scientific evidence and documented cases have proven gender-associated behavior is primarily determined by biology, and that it is a mistake to try to "socialize" boys into more "feminine" behavior. (The majority of men in prison today come from fatherless, female-dominated households.) This male-bashing book, with a radical feminist perspective, only perpetuates the myth that we are all "blank slates" at birth and can be molded into whatever political/social correctness is in vogue at the time. I highly recommend Michael Gurian's, A Fine Young Man (1998) as an alternative choice.
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Title: Men's Work: How to Stop the Violence That Tears Our Lives Apart by Paul Kivel ISBN: 1568382332 Publisher: Hazelden Publishing & Educational Services Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Who's Calling the Shots?: How to Respond Effectively to Children's Fascination With War Play and War Toys by Nancy Carlsson-Paige, Diane E. Levin ISBN: 0865711658 Publisher: New Society Publishers Pub. Date: 01 December, 1989 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice by Paul Kivel ISBN: 0865714592 Publisher: New Society Publishers Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice: A Sourcebook for Teachers and Trainers by Maurianne Adams, Lee Anne Bell, Pat Griffin ISBN: 0415910579 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 June, 1997 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: Helping Teens Stop Violence: A Practical Guide for Counselors, Educators, and Parents by Allan Creighton, Paul Kivel ISBN: 0897931165 Publisher: Hunter House (CA) Pub. Date: 01 November, 1992 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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