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Man Enough: Fathers, Sons, and the Search for Masculinity
by Frank Pittman
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Dust Jacket Included
- ISBN 10
- 0399138196
- ISBN 13
- 9780399138195
- Seller
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Catawissa, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1993. First Edition. Eighth Printing. Very Good copy. Very Good jacket. In three quarter beige paper over boards and black paper over spine with gold lettering. Tight, clean copy. Unmarked endpapers and pages, save for a written date and erased name on upper front paste-down. Light bumping to tail of spine. Jacket: Price intact. Bumping to upper edge of front panel and lower edge near spine. Light shelf rubbing. In protective jacket covre. Thank you for your patronage.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Synopsis
How does a boy learn to be a man? A man learns masculinity primarily from his father. But generations of boys who grow up without caring fathers or male mentors to emulate are left to guess what "men" are really like. They rely on cultural icons--larger-than-life images--as models of masculinity. As a result, they grow up mirroring overblown myths of manhood. Obsessed with being "man enough," they become philanderers, controllers, and competitors--constantly overcompensating for their loss of a true role model, yet sorely unprepared for family life. In Man Enough , psychiatrist and family therapist Frank Pittman explores what it is like to grow up male today. With great poignancy, humor, and candor, he weaves together case studies from his practice, examples from literature and films, plus personal vignettes from his own experiences as a father to examine these hyper-masculine men and to illustrate how they developed and how they can change. Dr. Pittman asserts that men can move past proving their masculinity and start practicing it by striving with the other guys rather than against them, achieving equality and intimacy with their mates--and by fathering. A man raises himself as he raises children and learns to understand and forgive his parents as he becomes one. An important book for men and women, Man Enough offers a new approach to issues of commitment, caring and control and creates a positive model for the fathers of tomorrow's men.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quaker House Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002063
- Title
- Man Enough: Fathers, Sons, and the Search for Masculinity
- Author
- Frank Pittman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Dust Jacket Included
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0399138196
- ISBN 13
- 9780399138195
- Publisher
- G.P. Putnam's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1993
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- PSYCHOLOGY, MEN
- Bookseller catalogs
- Psychology;
Terms of Sale
Quaker House Books
Items must be returned within ten days of sale for a full refund if not satisfied.
About the Seller
Quaker House Books
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Catawissa, Pennsylvania
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