Man Enough: Fathers, Sons, and the Search for Masculinity - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Frank PittmanSeries:PerigeeAudience:Young AdultPublish date:1994-10-01Pages:336
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780399518836ISBN-10:399518835UPC:9780399518836Book Category:Psychology, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Human Sexuality (see also Social Science, Men's Studies, DevelopmentalBook Topic:Human Sexuality), ChildSize:7.98 x 5.16 x 0.86 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCECA9JB3M
Man Enough: Fathers, Sons, and the Search for Masculinity
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...
Series: Perigee
Audience: Young Adult
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780399518836ISBN-10:399518835UPC:9780399518836Book Category:Psychology, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Human Sexuality (see also Social Science, Men's Studies, DevelopmentalBook Topic:Human Sexuality), ChildSize:7.98 x 5.16 x 0.86 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCECA9JB3M
Frank Pittman, M.D., is a psychiatrist and family therapist in Atlanta, Georgia. His revolutionary research on family therapy as an alternative to psychiatric hospitalization, conducted with Langsley and Kaplan in Denver in the mid-1960s, won awards from both the American Psychiatric Association and the American Family Therapy Association. In the late 1970s, Pittman championed community mental...
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
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