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Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood |
| Pollack, William | |
| New York, New York USA : Holt, Henry & Company, © 1999 | |
| Foreword by: Pipher, Mary | |
| Book 476 pp | ISBN-13: 9780805061833 ISBN: 0805061835 |
| Synopsis
Cheerful and confident are what you see most boys acting like, but reading Real Boys will be a real eye opener for you. The book is about rescuing our sons from the myths of boyhood. You see boys struggling either silently, with low self-esteem and feelings of loneliness and isolation, and they show it by acting out feelings of emotional and social disconnection through anger and may use violence against… William S. Pollack, asserts that toxic conceptions of masculinity in boy culture leads to boys doing poorly in education and health and …
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