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Buddy System

Author : Geoffrey Greif
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195326423
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Buddy System written by Geoffrey Greif and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much has been made of the complex social arrangements that girls and women navigate, but little scholarly or popular attention has focused on what friendship means to men. Drawing on in-depth interviews with nearly 400 men, therapist and researcher Geoffrey L. Greif takes readers on a guided tour of male friendships, explaining what makes them work, why they are vital to the health of individuals and communities, and how to build the kinds of friendships that can lead to longer and happier lives. Another 120 conversations with women help map the differences in what men and women seek from friendships and what, if anything, men can learn from women's relationships.The guiding feature of the book is Greif's typology of male friendships: he dispels the myth that men don't have friends, showing that men have must, trust, just,and rust friends. A must friend is the best friend a man absolutely must call with earthshaking news. A trust friend is liked and trusted but not necessarily held as close as a must friend. Just friends are casual acquaintances, while rust friends have a long history together and can drift in and out of each other's lives, essentially picking up where they last left off. Understanding the role each of these types of friends play across men's lives reveals fascinating developmental patterns, such as how men cope with stress and conflict and how they make and maintain friendships, and how their friends keep them active and happy.Through the lively words of men themselves, and detailed profiles of men from their twenties to their nineties, readers may be surprised to find what friendships offer men--as well as their families and communities--and are sure to learn what makes their own relationships tick.

Men's Friendships

Author : Peter M. Nardi
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 0803937741
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Men's Friendships written by Peter M. Nardi and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1992-02-26 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Men's Friendships" offers an analysis of the differences within each of the genders and the social forces that shape the ways friendship is organized. Through varying perspectives the contributors show that a variation exists within as well as between the genders. They focus on the diversity in men's friendships, and how men develop and maintain friendships with other men and with women. The first section focuses on philosophical and historical questions. Part II illustrates the strong connection between social structure and men's friendships; and the last series of chapters considers cultural diversity. -- From publisher's description.

Gay Men's Friendships

Author : Peter M. Nardi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226568430
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (684 download)

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Download or read book Gay Men's Friendships written by Peter M. Nardi and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1999-07-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on surveys and interviews of two hundred gay men, Peter Nardi's new study presents the first book-length examination of contemporary urban gay men's friendships. Expertly weaving historical and sociological research on friendship with firsthand information, Nardi argues that friendship is the central organizing element of gay men's lives. Through friendship, gay identities and communities are created, transformed, maintained, and reproduced. Nardi explores the meaning of friends to some gay men, how friends often become a surrogate family, how sexual behavior and attraction affects these friendships, and how, for many, friends mean more and last longer than romantic relationships. While looking at the psychological joys and sorrows of friendship, he also considers the cultural constraints limiting gay men in contemporary urban America—especially those that deal with dominant images of masculinity and heterosexuality—and how they relate to friendship. By listening to gay men talk about their interactions, Nardi offers a rare glimpse into the mechanisms of gay life. We learn how gay men meet their friends, what they typically do and talk about, and how these strong relationships contain the roots of larger cultural forces such as social movements and gay identities and neighborhoods. Nardi also points out the political and social consequences when friendships fail to provide support against oppression. An intimate and informative look at gay life in urban America, Gay Men's Friendships ultimately shows how these relationships challenge the gender order of our society by questioning how masculinity is constructed and by offering a model for a more creative blending of gay and heterosexual masculinity.

Deep Secrets

Author : Niobe Way
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674072421
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Deep Secrets written by Niobe Way and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-06 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ÒBoys are emotionally illiterate and donÕt want intimate friendships.Ó In this empirically grounded challenge to our stereotypes about boys and men, Niobe Way reveals the intense intimacy among teenage boys especially during early and middle adolescence. Boys not only share their deepest secrets and feelings with their closest male friends, they claim that without them they would go Òwacko.Ó Yet as boys become men, they become distrustful, lose these friendships, and feel isolated and alone. Drawing from hundreds of interviews conducted throughout adolescence with black, Latino, white, and Asian American boys, Deep Secrets reveals the ways in which we have been telling ourselves a false story about boys, friendships, and human nature. BoysÕ descriptions of their male friendships sound more like Òsomething out of Love Story than Lord of the Flies.Ó Yet in late adolescence, boys feel they have to Òman upÓ by becoming stoic and independent. Vulnerable emotions and intimate friendships are for girls and gay men. ÒNo homoÓ becomes their mantra. These findings are alarming, given what we know about links between friendships and health, and even longevity. Rather than a Òboy crisis,Ó Way argues that boys are experiencing a Òcrisis of connectionÓ because they live in a culture where human needs and capacities are given a sex (female) and a sexuality (gay), and thus discouraged for those who are neither. Way argues that the solution lies with exposing the inaccuracies of our gender stereotypes and fostering these critical relationships and fundamental human skills.

Seven Friendships Every Man Needs

Author : Justin Erickson
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0736975144
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book Seven Friendships Every Man Needs written by Justin Erickson and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This One's for the Guys On the scale of stranger to bromance, where do your friendships land? As guys, we tend to get a bum rap when it comes to our ability to relate to other men. We talk work, sports, and buffalo wings, but struggle to move into meaningful conversation with our friends. Justin Erickson has identified seven kinds of friendships every man needs to thrive and grow as a Christian. Based on the biblical role models of men like David, Paul, and Timothy, these are the relationships that ultimately make you the man that God has called you to be. Delve deeper into the life lessons offered by friendships found in the Bible, and find the kind of men who can enrich your life in a multitude of ways. God made you to be relational. Stop settling for surface-level connections, and learn to build life-changing relationships that last.

Men’s Friendships as Feminist Politics?

Author : Klara Goedecke
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031117719
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Men’s Friendships as Feminist Politics? written by Klara Goedecke and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-29 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses men’s friendships in relation to queer, discursive, and intersectional feminist theories. It analyses stories of intimacy, touch, hugs, and conversations, connecting these with current discussions within feminism and critical masculinity studies on “new” men, men’s political activism, and how friendships are lived and conceptualised in relation to heteronormative relationship ideals. Drawing on individual and dyadic interviews with middle-class Swedish men, all engaged in or sympathetic to feminist issues in some sense, this volume shows that Swedish gender equality ideologies as well as feminist, therapeutic, neo-liberal, and individualist discourses prevalent in the Western world structured the men’s friendships and their engagement with gender politics. Chapters cover friendship temporalities, gendered friendship ideals, friendship as men’s politics, and friendship as performed in interaction. Bridging the literatures of feminist research and friendship, the author points to tensions and contradictions in pro-feminist men’s political projects and in contemporary masculine positions.

Founding Friendships

Author : Cassandra A. Good
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199376174
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Founding Friendships written by Cassandra A. Good and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elite men and women in America's founding era formed friendships with one another that were vibrant, intimate, and politically significant. These relationships put women on equal footing with the founding fathers and other prominent men. Such friendships, Cassandra Good shows in Founding Friendships, enriched both the lives of individuals and the political fabric of the new nation.

Remaking Manhood

Author : Mark C. Greene
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781530817061
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Remaking Manhood written by Mark C. Greene and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remaking Manhood is a collection of Good Men Project Executive Editor Mark Greene's most popular articles on American culture, relationships, family and fatherhood. It is a timely and balanced look at the life affirming changes emerging from within the modern men's movement."This is writing that unites men rather than dividing or exploiting them. It speaks to the very best part of men and asks them to bring that part to the fore-as fathers, as sons, as brothers, as husbands, as friends, as lovers, and as citizens of life." -Michael Rowe, author of Other Men's Sons"Read this book, but don't mistake it as a defense of men. Remaking Manhood is going to be considered a go-to piece of literature on the new "Male Revolution."" -Jason Grant, CityDadsGroup.com"Mark interweaves his own deeply personal stories with a salient and powerful deconstruction of manhood in America."-Lisa Hickey, CEO, Good Men Project

Navigating Differences

Author : Jammie Price
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136382992
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book Navigating Differences written by Jammie Price and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Navigating Differences: Friendships Between Gay and Straight Men is a one-of-a-kind cross-sexual study that shows you how today’s gay and straight men build, maintain, and foster true friendships. In this activist, participatory study, you’ll get a day-in-the-life look at 44 pairs of cross-sexual men’s friendships and see what helps them negotiate the terrain of their emotional, sexual, psychological, and social differences in today’s climate of often publicly defended homophobia and heterosexism. Navigating Differences succeeds in bringing the true picture of cross-sexual men’s relationships to you, regardless of your personal orientation or political affiliation. You’ll find information--straight from the lives of the study’s participants--that shows you how different sexual orientations impact the way men spend time together, maintain friendships, cope with sexual struggles, and open good communication channels. Most importantly, you’ll get detailed facts and feedback concerning: hegemonic masculinity embracing, struggling with, and ignoring differences group demographic characteristics embeddedness and emotional communication outness in-groups, out-groups, and reference groups Hearsay and prejudice might claim to know what gay and straight men think of each other, but Navigating Differences replaces rumors with research and shows you what really keeps gay and straight men in lasting friendships in all arenas of life. You’ll learn firsthand what it takes to overcome differences and what it means to turn difference into meaningful relationships.

Made for Friendship

Author : Drew Hunter
Publisher : Crossway
ISBN 13 : 143355822X
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (335 download)

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Download or read book Made for Friendship written by Drew Hunter and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God made you for friendship. Friendship is one of the deepest pleasures of life. But in our busy, fast-paced, mobile world, we've lost this rich view of friendship and instead settled for shallow acquaintances based on little more than similar tastes or shared interests. Helping us recapture a vision of true friendship, pastor Drew Hunter explores God's design for friendship and what it really looks like in practice—giving us practical advice to cultivate the kinds of true friendships that lead to true and life-giving joy.

Better Boys, Better Men

Author : Andrew Reiner
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062854968
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book Better Boys, Better Men written by Andrew Reiner and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thought-provoking and much-needed look at how modern masculinity is harming and holding back men—and all of society—and what we can do to promote a new masculinity that allows men of all ages to thrive. In Better Boys, Better Men, cultural critic and New York Times contributor Andrew Reiner argues that men today are working on an outdated model of masculinity, which prevents them in moments of distress and vulnerability from marshalling the courage, strength, and resiliency—the very characteristics we regularly champion in men—they need to thrive in a world vastly different from the ones their fathers and grandfathers grew up in. According to Reiner, this outdated model of manhood can have devastating effects on the entire culture and, especially boys and men, from falling behind in the classroom and rising male unemployment rates to increased levels of depression and disturbing upticks in violence on a mass scale. Reiner interviews boys and men of all ages, educators, counselors, therapists, and physicians throughout the United States to better understand what factors are preventing the country’s boys and men from developing the emotional resiliency they need. He also introduces readers to the boys and men at the vanguard of a new masculinity that empowers them to find and express the full range of their humanity. Urgent and necessary, Better Boys, Better Men will change the way we talk about boys and men in America today.

Breaking the Male Code

Author : Robert Garfield
Publisher : Avery
ISBN 13 : 1592409628
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (924 download)

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Download or read book Breaking the Male Code written by Robert Garfield and published by Avery. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how men can develop a deeper friendship with other men.

The Lonely American

Author : Jacqueline Olds, MD
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807095966
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Lonely American written by Jacqueline Olds, MD and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2009-02-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today's world, it is more acceptable to be depressed than to be lonely-yet loneliness appears to be the inevitable byproduct of our frenetic contemporary lifestyle. According to the 2004 General Social Survey, one out of four Americans talked to no one about something of importance to them during the last six months. Another remarkable fact emerged from the 2000 U.S. Census: more people are living alone today than at any point in the country's history—fully 25 percent of households consist of one person only. In this crucial look at one of America's few remaining taboo subjects—loneliness—Drs. Jacqueline Olds and Richard S. Schwartz set out to understand the cultural imperatives, psychological dynamics, and physical mechanisms underlying social isolation. In The Lonely American, cutting-edge research on the physiological and cognitive effects of social exclusion and emerging work in the neurobiology of attachment uncover startling, sobering ripple effects of loneliness in areas as varied as physical health, children's emotional problems, substance abuse, and even global warming. Surprising new studies tell a grim truth about social isolation: being disconnected diminishes happiness, health, and longevity; increases aggression; and correlates with increasing rates of violent crime. Loneliness doesn't apply simply to single people, either—today's busy parents "cocoon" themselves by devoting most of their non-work hours to children, leaving little time for friends, and other forms of social contact, and unhealthily relying on the marriage to fulfill all social needs. As a core population of socially isolated individuals and families continues to balloon in size, it is more important than ever to understand the effects of a culture that idealizes busyness and self-reliance. It's time to bring loneliness—a very real and little-discussed social epidemic with frightening consequences-out into the open, and find a way to navigate the tension between freedom and connection in our lives.

American Sympathy

Author : Caleb Crain
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300133677
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book American Sympathy written by Caleb Crain and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A friend in history,” Henry David Thoreau once wrote, “looks like some premature soul.” And in the history of friendship in early America, Caleb Crain sees the soul of the nation’s literature. In a sensitive analysis that weaves together literary criticism and historical narrative, Crain describes the strong friendships between men that supported and inspired some of America’s greatest writing--the Gothic novels of Charles Brockden Brown, the essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the novels of Herman Melville. He traces the genealogy of these friendships through a series of stories. A dapper English spy inspires a Quaker boy to run away from home. Three Philadelphia gentlemen conduct a romance through diaries and letters in the 1780s. Flighty teenager Charles Brockden Brown metamorphoses into a horror novelist by treating his friends as his literary guinea pigs. Emerson exchanges glances with a Harvard classmate but sacrifices his crush on the altar of literature--a decision Margaret Fuller invites him to reconsider two decades later. Throughout this engaging book, Crain demonstrates the many ways in which the struggle to commit feelings to paper informed the shape and texture of American literature.

Just Friends: the Ultimate Girl's Guide to Male Friendships

Author : Pamela Naidoo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781546349495
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (494 download)

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Download or read book Just Friends: the Ultimate Girl's Guide to Male Friendships written by Pamela Naidoo and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-08 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ONE-AND-ONLY revolutionary platonic friendship book designed to guide the modern woman in creating long-lasting, successful and fun male friendships. All the secrets FINALLY revealed!"Just Friends - The Ultimate Girl's Guide to Male Friendships" is the most important relationships guide for women, and will redefine the boundaries of male and female friendships.Combining the latest scientific research and endorsed by leading scientific experts in this field, 'Just Friends' is every woman's essential guide. In it, you will discover the wonders of platonic relationships in an exciting, refreshing, down-to-earth conversational style.Full of practical how-to tips, guiding questions, and using a proven step-by-step process, you will easily learn how to build and nurture male friendships and have fun along the way! Whether you're looking to make new male friends or simply maintain and enhance your current friendships, this engaging guide reveals it all!The premise is simple: Platonic friendships are the FASTEST growing social interaction on the planet! We study, work and play together, now more than ever; so, learning how to build successful, long-term friendships with the opposite sex is key to a happier, healthier, more fulfilling life. Making a meaningful connection with other people could be the single most valuable skill in business and life. Establishing natural, meaningful friendships will contribute positively to your overall well-being.Brimming with advice, tips, and common sense, this book will help to get women and men talking, and will keep platonic friends 'together forever'.You will learn how to:* Successfully make new friends (male) and keep them as friends* Find extraordinary male friends-where to look and how to approach them* Kick-start the friendship, deal with rejection and learn how to build trust through conversation and activities* Manage the friendship when feelings get in the way. Move seamlessly from friends to lovers and understand what it means to date a friend* How to get out the dreaded friend zone and step into somewhere better* Manage and make the most out of a 'friends with benefits' relationship* And much, much more....With straightforward, honest writing from that prized female perspective, Pamela unlocks the secrets to enable you both to reach true mutual understanding and make friends forever. Discover for yourself why women believe that 'Just Friends - The Ultimate Girl's Guide to Male Friendships' should be mandatory reading for every modern woman.The ONLY Book Every Girl Needs to Unlock the 'Friendship' Hearts of Men - GUARANTEED!

For the Love of Men

Author : Liz Plank
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250196256
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book For the Love of Men written by Liz Plank and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A nonfiction investigation into masculinity, For The Love of Men provides actionable steps for how to be a man in the modern world, while also exploring how being a man in the world has evolved. In 2019, traditional masculinity is both rewarded and sanctioned. Men grow up being told that boys don’t cry and dolls are for girls (a newer phenomenon than you might realize—gendered toys came back in vogue as recently as the 80s). They learn they must hide their feelings and anxieties, that their masculinity must constantly be proven. They must be the breadwinners, they must be the romantic pursuers. This hasn’t been good for the culture at large: 99% of school shooters are male; men in fraternities are 300% (!) more likely to commit rape; a woman serving in uniform has a higher likelihood of being assaulted by a fellow soldier than to be killed by enemy fire. In For the Love of Men, Liz offers a smart, insightful, and deeply-researched guide for what we're all going to do about toxic masculinity. For both women looking to guide the men in their lives and men who want to do better and just don’t know how, For the Love of Men will lead the conversation on men's issues in a society where so much is changing, but gender roles have remained strangely stagnant. What are we going to do about men? Liz Plank has the answer. And it has the possibility to change the world for men and women alike.

Modernism, Male Friendship, and the First World War

Author : Sarah Cole
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521819237
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (192 download)

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Download or read book Modernism, Male Friendship, and the First World War written by Sarah Cole and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-08-28 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cole examines the rich history of masculine intimacy in the twentieth century. She foregrounds such crucial themes as broken friendships, blood brotherhood, and the bereavement of the war poet. Cole argues that these dramas of compelling and often tortured male friendship have generated a particular voice within the literary canon.