Why did Fred love this book?
As someone who writes sports books that attract mostly boy readers, I am often asked, "When are you going to write a girl's sportsbook?"
Depending on my mood, I sometimes talk about how boys are failing in school. Boys drop out more often and earn fewer college degrees and some advanced degrees.
Reeves looks at all sides of this important issue without sinking into the toxic masculinity that often mars this debate. Instead, Reeves examines the physical and social science with a calm tone.
Some of his suggestions, such as starting boys a year later in school, are sure to spark intense discussion. But it is a much-needed discussion that might help boys and young men.
1 author picked Of Boys and Men as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
A positive vision for masculinity in a postfeminist world
Boys and men are struggling. Profound economic and social changes of recent decades have many losing ground in the classroom, the workplace, and in the family. While the lives of women have changed, the lives of many men have remained the same or even worsened.
Our attitudes, our institutions, and our laws have failed to keep up. Conservative and progressive politicians, mired in their own ideological warfare, fail to provide thoughtful solutions.
The father of three sons, a journalist, and a Brookings Institution scholar, Richard V. Reeves has spent twenty-five years…