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"One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard."
- Eric Hoffer
(1902 - 1983)
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ZIN Product Number: 10185875
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 256 pages
Edition: 1 TOUCHSTO
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 0684849577
Release Date: Jan 11, 2000
Average Reader Review:    (Based on 5 reviews.)
| |  | | | From The Publisher
It's a bad time to be a boy in America. As the century drew to a close, the defining event for American girls was the triumph of the U.S. women's soccer team. For boys, the symbolic event was the mass killing at Columbine High School.
It would seem that boys in our society are greatly at risk. Yet the best-known studies and the academic experts say that it's girls who are suffering from a decline in self-esteem. It's girls, they say, who need extra help in school and elsewhere in a society that favors boys. The problem with boys is that they are boys, say the experts. We need to change their nature. We have to make them more like...girls.
These arguments don't hold up to scrutiny, says Christina Hoff Sommers in this provocative, fascinating book. She analyzes the work of the leading academic experts, Carol Gilligan and William Pollack, and finds it lacking in scientific rigor. There is no girl crisis, says Sommers. Girls are outperforming boys academically, and girls' self-esteem is no different from boys'. Boys lag behind girls in reading and writing ability, and they are less likely to go to college.
The "girl crisis" has been seized upon by some feminists and has been suffused with sexual politics. Under the guise of helping girls, many schools have adopted policies that penalize boys, often for simply being masculine. Sommers says that boys do need help, but not the sort they've been getting. They need help catching up with girls academically. They need love, discipline, respect, and moral guidance. They desperately need understanding. They do not need to be rescued from masculinity.
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Reading the Reviews
-- A reviewer, a producer and film maker from NYC, July 29, 2002
Finally, intellectual honesty
-- Bob, nurse who happens to be male., October 2, 2001
A honest and correct look at the facts
-- Cory, somone who works with college men, July 9, 2002
not accurate
-- michelle, an engineer, September 12, 2001
Internalized Sexist
-- Stacey, a student for equal rights, April 15, 2002
| | | | The Reader's Catalog
This book challenges the prevailing belief that the cards in contemporary America are stacked against the female sex. In fact, the author argues, boys are being increasingly ill served by a school system rife with anti-masculine bias. "One need not accept her politics to appreciate the best of her book: its critical reporting"—The Washington Post Book World
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I regard Christina Sommers as one of the most heroic truth tellers of our times.
—(Camille Paglia) —Camille Paglia
| |  | | | | Preface | 13 | | 1 | Where the Boys Are | 17 | | 2 | Reeducating the Nation's Boys | 45 | | 3 | Guys and Dolls | 73 | | 4 | Carol Gilligan and the Incredible Shrinking Girl | 100 | | 5 | Gilligan's Island | 124 | | 6 | Save the Males | 138 | | 7 | Why Johnny Can't, Like, Read and Write | 158 | | 8 | The Moral Life of Boys | 179 | | 9 | War and Peace | 207 | | Notes | 215 | | Index | 239 |
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Sociology, Social Science, Men's Studies - General, Adolescence - General, Feminism & Feminist Theory, Gender Studies
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