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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 305.310973 EAN: 9780060831349 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0060831340 Label: Harper Manufacturer: Harper Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 352 Publication Date: September 01, 2008 Publisher: Harper Release Date: August 26, 2008 Studio: Harper Related Items:
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The passage from adolescence to adulthood was once clear, coherent, and relatively secure: in their late teenage years and early twenties, guys "put away childish things" and entered their futures as responsible adults. Today growing up has become more complex and confusing as young men drift casually through college and beyond—hanging out, partying, playing with tech toys, watching sports. But beneath the appearance of a simple extended boyhood, a more dangerous social world has developed, far away from the traditional signposts and cultural signals that once helped boys navigate their way to manhood. The average young American man today is moving through a new stage of development, a buddy culture unfazed by the demands of parents, girlfriends, jobs, kids, and other nuisances of adult life. Sociologist and gender studies authority Michael Kimmel has identified this territory as "Guyland," a place that is both a stage of life and a new social arena. Guyland is the locker room writ large: the world where young men both test and prove themselves as men and develop the defining attitudes and self-images they will carry into adulthood. Kimmel has interviewed hundreds of young men ages sixteen to twenty-six in high schools and college fraternity houses, military academies and sports bars, to better understand Guyland's rules and restrictions, its layers of peer pressure and gender policing, its features and artifacts—from the ordinary (video games, sports, and music) to the extreme (violent fraternity initiations, sexual predation). In mapping the social world where tomorrow's men are made, Kimmel offers a view into the minds and times of America's sons, brothers, and boyfriends, and works toward redefining what it means to be a man today—and tomorrow. Only by understanding this world and this life stage can we enable young men to chart their own paths, to stay true to themselves, and to travel safely through Guyland, emerging as responsible and fully formed men of integrity and honor. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Incredible readReviewed by Carol Hoyer, PhD, for Reader Views (12/08) Michael Kimmel has written an extraordinary account of why young men today do not grow up as they did in past generations. Through his interviews with hundreds of young men ages sixteen to twenty-six, Kimmel gives us the inside scoop on why young men are marching a different path today. For them, the responsibility of work, marriage and responsibility is a something that will come later on. What is interesting is the ... Read More Rating:  - Completely BiasedKimmel is completely biased. My stupid Human Development professor made us read this stupid book. Kimmel does not give a balanced study. He studies guys who fit his criteria and he makes it seem like the problem he is studying is an epidemic. I've met all kinds of people out there and many of us have also met all kinds of people. When it comes to guys I've met only a small handful who fit into his "Guyland" theory. This book is going to be one of those idiotic books that will end up in ... Read More Rating: - Extreme, skewed, one sidedI found this book to be extremely biased in the way it depicted guys in their mid-twenties. I believe the author knew which conclusion he wanted to reach and then did everything in his power to make the information he was provided with reach that conclusion. His thesis seems to be that every male who is single and in their twenties is a loser, alcoholic and rapist. This could not be further from the truth. I myself am a resident of Guyland and have been employed since I was sixteen. I graduated from ... Read More Rating: - Disturbing news for parentsI found this to be an amazing book, full of deep insights, and a boatload of disturbing stories. Personally, I would consider it a "Must Read," particularly for parents of college guys. Having said that, it is anything but a "how to fix it" book. Rating:  - Boys Become MenAfter I came across the book Guyland by Michael Kimmel, I could not stop reading it. This book is about male teenagers around the age of 16 to 26 transferring to adulthood and how the guys handle the changes. The author explains that "Guyland", is a stage in life where guys put away immature things and try to take up responsibilities. Becoming older and more mature has made it very complex for college students to focus on there work, and to concentrate on what will benefit there future. The author states ... Read More 
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