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Sep 27, 2022 · His new book, Of Boys and Men, tackles the complex and urgent crisis of boyhood and manhood. Reeves looks at the structural challenges that face boys and men and offers fresh and innovative solutions that turn the page on the corrosive narrative that plagues this issue.
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Of Boys and Men, by Richard V. Reeves, is one of the most buzzworthy books in the current conversation on the state of men. This week, we’re sharing a review produced by research intern Louis Schieferdecker, published here in its entirety. If you’ve read Of Boys and Men, our team would love to hear your thoughts and takeaways! Email us at blog@mani...
One of Reeves’ major strengths in this book is how well he exposes the negatively-trending roles of men in education, in the workforce, and in the family. In education, boys—beginning in middle school—are under-performing women by a large margin. For instance, just 40% of college graduates are men. He attributes the discrepancy, in large part, to b...
In the second section of the book, Reeves examines how intersectionality informs the conversation. First, he engages the social categorization of race—particularly as it pertains to black boys and men. He presents evidence for why they are at a greater disadvantage than other groups of men due to various factors, such as persistent income inequalit...
In his chapter “Making Men,” Reeves addresses the biological facts of manhood, as well as how those facts relate to the current cultural views. He moves from the issues men are having to the “raw material” of what men are, and how we should be willing to examine both the biology and social aspects of who we are and how they intertwine. He starts by...
The fourth section of the book addresses the political influences on the conversation. While it’s clear Reeves has a bias, he galvanizes his audience by making an ally and an enemy out of them. Reeves goes after both sides of the aisle with a good bit of gusto, calling out several of the arguments that each side uses against the other, so you may f...
In the final section of the book, over the course of three chapters, Reeves offers solutions to the issues he has discussed in the first section: education, labor, and fatherhood.
Overall, I found Of Boys and Mento be well written, interesting, and enjoyable to read. Reeves develops his points and makes his case clearly, while showing his hand in the process. He addresses the problems boys and men are facing earnestly and openly, guiding the reader through his arguments without coercion. While he makes his feminist position ...
Nov 27, 2022 · In this widely praised book, Richard Reeves, father of three sons, a journalist, and now the president of the American Institute for Boys and Men, tackles the complex and urgent crisis of boyhood and manhood. He argues that our attitudes, our institutions, and our laws have failed to keep up.
Oct 5, 2022 · Richard Reeves’ new book “Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It” is largely devoted to analyzing this educational gap and related issues. And I realized reading the book that I’d been underestimating the extent of the gap.
Oct 3, 2022 · A thoughtful analysis of alarming evidence of a male malaise avoids the culture wars, arguing for structural and societal change
The great strength of Reeves’s book, apart from his extensive use of contemporary data, is the way he treats the multiple difficulties facing boys and men as problems in their own right. The question of how sexual differences play out is often enmeshed with our personal experiences and political commitments.
Structural challenges require structural solutions, and this is what Richard V. Reeves proposes in Of Boys and Men – starting boys at school a year later than girls; getting more men into caring professions; rethinking the role of fatherhood outside of a nuclear family context.
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