The Man They Wanted Me to Be: Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making

by Jared Yates Sexton

Book Overview

This provocative, "critically important" memoir of working-class boyhood in rural Indiana offers a searing cultural analysis of toxic masculinity in American culture (NPR).

As progressivism changes American society, and globalism shifts labor away from traditional manufacturing, the roles that have been prescribed to men since the Industrial Revolution have been rendered obsolete. Donald Trump's campaign successfully leveraged male...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1640091815
• ISBN13: 9781640091818
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.1"