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Be a Man

Be a Man

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With highly developed emotional intelligence, and a nuanced understanding of adult development including the importance of shadow work, Masters delivers a vision of mature, embodied male empowerment.

Warfare is all about oppositional extremes, and so is much of conventional manhood, with an endless list of things to conquer. A man puts his on and suddenly appears to his girlfriend as a different person: “ugly and menacing, a strange creature I’d never seen before”. Designed to help you out of any awkward situation, this book gives you any number of tips and hints for witty repartee down the pub, including why it’s better to have an older mistress and the 85 ways to tie a tie.Most of the stories in the book feature unnamed narrators, and overlaps between characters in different stories are occasionally hinted at but not overt. a groundbreaking book shining the light on men and their experiences, how men may feel when they don’t end up having children for one reason or another e. The book has some features that make it interesting to readers from both a professional and a wider audience. The world scooped me up and gave me a warm welcome in places I could never before have entered comfortably, and many of the people closest to me turned away, betrayed by a transition they took personally.

Professor Eleonora Bielawska-Batorowicz, Institute of Psychology, University of Łódź, Poland, “In the literature devoted to reproductive psychology, childlessness does not constitute a topic that is very often discussed. But I insisted that I was not a man, until at age fifty, the knowledge that I had only ever felt like a man and a boy poured out of me with a certainty that I would never deny again.I went to university, then graduate school, got married sooner than I imagined and had two daughters only a year apart. My body could feel alive and my heart could feel warm only when testosterone reunited me with that boy at age four who, I so clearly remember, dreamed of being a man. carries the implication that he is not enough of a man (or enough of a person), that he is not measuring up — he’s not only failing to meet a certain standard, a preset expectation or “should,” but also is being shamed for this, however subtly or indirectly. You must know Polly, as much as I will begrudge telling you, because Polly knows so much about Carl and vice versa.

The Epilogue particularly warrants attention, as it brings reflections not only on myths around men and masculinities, but also on childlessness in later life and COVID-19 –reflections that additionally illustrate the effects of not becoming a father.In each of these moving stories, we feel the weight not only of family, but of history and faith and leaving a legacy, pressing down on every one of her characters.



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