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Discover how masculinity is shaped in our culture and ways to help boys develop a healthier, more fulfilling narrative about their lives.Ruth Whippman will share insights from her new book, BoyMom: Reimagining Boyhood in the Age of Impossible Masculinity, which digs into the impossibly contradictory pressures boys now face; and the harmful blind spots of male socialization that are leaving boys isolated, emotionally repressed, and adrift. With young men in the grip of a loneliness epidemic and dying by suicide at a rate of nearly four times their female peers, Whippman asks: How do we raise our sons to have a healthy sense of self without turning them into privileged jerks? How can we find a feminism that holds boys to a higher standard but still treats them with empathy? And what do we do when our boys won’t cooperate with our plans?
This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required.
More about Ruth Whippman:
Ruth Whippman is a British author, journalist and cultural critic living in the United States. A former BBC documentary director and producer, her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Time magazine, New York magazine, The Guardian, HuffPost, and elsewhere. Fortune described her as one of the "25 sharpest minds" of the decade. She is the author of the book America the Anxious, which was a New York Post Best Book of the Year, a New York Times Editors Choice and Paperback Row pick. She lives in California with her husband and three sons.
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850 Greenhills Drive, Ann Arbor, 48105, US, United States
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