In the Country of Men: My Travels - Rilegato

Waldron, Jan L.

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ISBN 10: 0385485646 ISBN 13: 9780385485647

Casa editrice: Anchor Books, 1997

Riassunto

The author reflects on the men who have influenced her life and her attitudes toward masculinity, from her father to her own sons, and offers a hopeful vision of relations between the sexes that steers away from feminist ideology.

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part social commentary, Jan Waldron's In the Country of Men is a thoughtful and provocative exploration of the meaning of gender, male-female relationships, and manhood. Jan's powerful but warm voice both provokes and seduces as she exposes the folly of gender shtick while carefully unraveling the intricate stitching of her life vis-a-vis the men who contributed to her definition of manhood: her father, her brother, her lovers, her sons.

Waldron begins with memories of her father, a boy who never really grew up, and her brother, a boy who had to grow up too fast. We experience the high drama of her first kiss, and the deep disappointment of her relationship with the father of her sons, who left the family when their two boys were four and five. She is frustrated with men and the trappings of manhood but has finally found a happy, lasting relationship with a man, and in raising her sons, she has found hope and a vision for the future of gender relations. Her boys, now sitting

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Book by Waldron Jan L

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• Editore: Anchor Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0385485646
• ISBN 13: 9780385485647
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 212