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OSI Articles
"A FRATERNITY FOR THOSE WHO NEED ONE"
Where's the White House Council on Men and Boys?
ABSTRACT:
The story from the White House is that President Obama has asked that each day 10 of the thousands of letters he receives are selected and brought to his attention. With this device he wants to know, to the extent that he can, how his correspondents regard his administration.
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"Enabling men in literature: TEACHING MALE-POSITIVE MASCULINITIES IN A COLLEGE ENGLISH CLASS"
ABSTRACT:
Recent concern about the education of boys and men is certainly justified. Masculinities; those various, sometimes
competitive, masculine identities; are often misrepresented in American culture leaving many boys and men feeling alienated
and excluded from their learning and living communities. A new acute attentiveness to discourses about boys, men, and
masculinities and how they are inscribed without question in our culture is timely and auspicious. Teaching a male-positive
literature class can intervene in and contribute positively to the education of boys and men by enabling them to become
embodied literate learners and leaders, to become men in literature. Sustaining this male-positive strategy of acute attentiveness
and positive intervention, my research answers four interrelated questions: Are American boys and men poorly
served by education? What opportunities for undertaking a male-positive approach to education and literacy are evident
in current scholarship? How successful was my Men in Literature course in enabling male literacy? What male-positive
strategies might better enable men in literature and literacy? [full article...]
"Enabling men in literature: TEACHING MALE-POSITIVE MASCULINITIES IN A COLLEGE ENGLISH CLASS"
ABSTRACT:
Recent concern about the education of boys and men is certainly justified. Masculinities; those various, sometimes
competitive, masculine identities; are often misrepresented in American culture leaving many boys and men feeling alienated
and excluded from their learning and living communities. A new acute attentiveness to discourses about boys, men, and
masculinities and how they are inscribed without question in our culture is timely and auspicious. Teaching a male-positive
literature class can intervene in and contribute positively to the education of boys and men by enabling them to become
embodied literate learners and leaders, to become men in literature. Sustaining this male-positive strategy of acute attentiveness
and positive intervention, my research answers four interrelated questions: Are American boys and men poorly
served by education? What opportunities for undertaking a male-positive approach to education and literacy are evident
in current scholarship? How successful was my Men in Literature course in enabling male literacy? What male-positive
strategies might better enable men in literature and literacy? [full article...]
"the
art and science of psychotherapy with men"
ABSTRACT:
When
the male patient enters our office, he needs to be met by a
therapist who holds a relevant psychology for contemporary men.
The yang of women's liberation as it affects the
development of uncertainty in boys, adolescents and men must be
factored into treatment. The
unique expression of symptoms or lack of symptomatology in men
who are truly upset, needs to be seen in the context of our
times and, perhaps the most important prevailing attitude toward
men can be a sense of new possibilities. [full
article...]
"DOMESTIC
VIOLENCE AGAINST MEN"
ABSTRACT:
Considering
Domestic Violence Against Men is decidedly politically
incorrect. It is so
incorrect that our protest on behalf of men may even cause a
reaction against the discussion of this silent crisis for men.
But in the effort to protect women we must face up to a
harder question: Protecting men. [full
article...]
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