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Summary: the classic affirmation of men's experience...
Review: ....and a positive step toward healing the gap between men and women. Also a good intro to men's studies in general. Not tremendously deep or profound, but gracefully written and very useful for men's groups.
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Summary: the classic affirmation of men's experience...
Review: ....and a positive step toward healing the gap between men and women. Also a good intro to men's studies in general. Not tremendously deep or profound, but gracefully written and very useful for men's groups.
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Summary: Helped provide closure on some parts of my life
Review: As a Viet Nam vet I would often wonder what invoked my responses to certain situations I would encounter as a man. After reading Keen's book I feel that I have been able to put closure to a very bad part of my life. I highly recommend ALL men read this book, as well as the women in their lives. I thank Sam for writting this book and to my Mermaid Woman, Anna Ree for telling me to read it.
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Summary: Forces us to examine our beliefs about being a man.
Review: Few books allow readers the opportunity to unmask our cultural and personal belief systems about men. Sam Keen moves beyond simple explanations of what it is to be a "Man" and challenges us to re-examine the rituals of manliness and manhood (from ceremonial circumcision to sophomoric fraternity initiations); the societal expectations placed on men (i.e. War and the bloodguilt that follows); and the ever changing and expanding roles that men must adopt (as a friend, father and help-mate).It is must read for men as well as women who wish to achieve a more thoughtful understanding of men beyond the simplistic and often times inane drivel (mis-)represented by film and television.
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Summary: not your typical self-help book
Review: i felt a little wierd going through the check-out line with a book "on being a man" when i am a female, but i am certainly glad I did. this book will not only help you know yourself more if you are a man- it will help woman to understand men better so they can understand and empathize better.
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Summary: Wonderful opportunity to honestly evaluate your life
Review: I first read this book when it first came out and thought it was great. Now that I am over 40, I think that it is fantastic. Keen writes with an uncanny ability that allows the reader to be brutaly honest with himself. By doing this, the reader can get some great insights into why certain things occur and why he feels the way he does. This is a must read for men over 40.
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Summary: Best book ever written for men
Review: I read this book a few years back and I am in debt to its wisdom. It fact Sam Keen may also be indebt to me as I have given this book away as a gift at least a dozen times. Keen looks at the changing role of men in society in this book. Men were the bread winners in families because that was the way it was supposed to be. With women expected to work, the male role has changed. All of the sudden, men(particularly the white male) has been blamed for many of the ills of society. Keen explores where a man can find fulfillment in this modern world through roles in work, family, and sex. If you have ever asked yourself the question, "What makes a man, a real man?", this book will help to answer the question. No man should be without this book.
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Summary: A very wise book from a very wise man.
Review: I read this book years ago and had occasion to attend a lecture Sam Keen gave in Dayton, Ohio. I was already immensely impressed by the book, but I have to say that the experience of listening to him live and being able to ask him questions, confirmed all my expectations about him. He is an incredibly wise and sensitive human being with much to offer men, and I believe women, as well. For men, this is MUST reading.
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Summary: A very wise book from a very wise man.
Review: I read this book years ago and had occasion to attend a lecture Sam Keen gave in Dayton, Ohio. I was already immensely impressed by the book, but I have to say that the experience of listening to him live and being able to ask him questions, confirmed all my expectations about him. He is an incredibly wise and sensitive human being with much to offer men, and I believe women, as well. For men, this is MUST reading.
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Summary: Wanted to Understand the Male's Side of the Gender War
Review: I was told about this book in both a psychology class and in a Communication Between the Genders class, college classes composed mostly of women. During the semester, I was taken aback by my female classmates' intense, even brutal, anger at men and how that anger motivated their attitudes and behaviors. These women had little or no desire to discover ways to neutralize the tensions in the male-female combat zone, but preferred to blame their failings and frustrations on men. Post-divorce, I was not without my own anger, but I could pretty much well identify its causes. Their anger, I noticed, seemed driven by forces they could neither identify nor define. These observations compelled me to find honest answers. I wanted to understand, as objectively as possible, what had created the devastating rift between men and women, beyond the pat explanations espoused by the second wave of the Feminist Movement and the mass media. Sam Keen's book shed much light on the problem with the simple observation that men suffer, and are in these dire straits, because they have not freed themselves from their psychological and emotional bondage to women; they can never define themselves as separate beings so long as they "invest so much of their identity" in women. I am grateful to Keen for providing me this profound understanding and the experience of feeling true empathy for men. Just the same, as long as men choose to remain bonded in these ways to women, and so long as women [and for selfish gains, I might add] proudly wield the power they know they hold over men, no amount of empathy can change the status quo.
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