{"id":1096,"date":"2008-09-03T06:15:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T11:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=1096"},"modified":"2008-09-03T06:15:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-03T11:15:00","slug":"maleland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/09\/03\/maleland\/","title":{"rendered":"Maleland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/SL5pe96yeEI\/AAAAAAAAB4s\/ejCRgxY2HNQ\/s1600-h\/-1.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;float: left;cursor: pointer\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/SL5pe96yeEI\/AAAAAAAAB4s\/ejCRgxY2HNQ\/s200\/-1.gif\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/SL5kGoi9bVI\/AAAAAAAAB4k\/2-0i56OGUFk\/s1600-h\/28350918.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;float: left;cursor: pointer\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/SL5kGoi9bVI\/AAAAAAAAB4k\/2-0i56OGUFk\/s200\/28350918.JPG\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Two new books on men have captured my attention this month: Michael Kimmel&#8217;s <a><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men<\/span><\/a> and Kathleen Parker&#8217;s <a><span style=\"font-style:italic\">Save the Males: Why Men Matter and Why Women Should Care<\/span><\/a>.  The first, by a well-known sociologist and gender scholar, I recommend.  The second, by a so-called &#8220;cultural provocateur,&#8221; not so much.<\/p>\n<p>Kimmel&#8217;s is an Ophelia-like look at what&#8217;s going on inside the minds of 16-26 year old young men.  Parker&#8217;s is a wry and shoddily researched look at men under seige by guess who.  Check out this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2008\/08\/21\/guyland\">Q&amp;A with Kimmel in <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Inside Higher Ed<\/span><\/a> and this <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/about-fathers\/200807\/are-men-under-siege#new\">review of Parker&#8217;s over at About Fathers<\/a>.  I wrote a commentary hooked on Kimmel&#8217;s findings that will be up at the Women&#8217;s Media Center next week.  Will post when it goes live \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>(Thanks to Paul Raeburn for the link!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two new books on men have captured my attention this month: Michael Kimmel&#8217;s Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men and Kathleen Parker&#8217;s Save the Males: Why Men Matter and Why Women Should Care. The first, by a well-known sociologist and gender scholar, I recommend. The second, by a so-called &#8220;cultural provocateur,&#8221; not so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[876],"class_list":["post-1096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-men"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}