Pre-Owned What Makes a Man: 22 Writers Imagine the Future (Hardcover) 1573222690 9781573222693

A conversation one afternoon with her sixth-grade son suddenly illuminated a scary reality for Rebecca Walker: Society was priming her boy, like so many others, to become a warrior. At eleven years old, he was being asked to choose a weapon -- a virtual gun in violent computer games or a metaphoric one in team sports -- and to fight, stopping at nothing to win. Even now, years into the twenty-first century, the roles available to him appeared to be reduced to athlete or soldier, winner or loser. But is that all there is? Is competition and conquest what really makes a man?0In What Makes a Man, Walker and twenty-one other provocative writers address the question of what it means to be a man, when no one knows what it means to be a man anymore. Representing a stunning range of essayists, novelists, men and women -- including Michael Datcher, Anthony Swofford, Michael Moore, Ruth Bettelheim, and Douglas Rushkoff -- this groundbreaking anthology boldly confronts the complications, possibilities, uncertainties, and joys of being a man in the twenty-first century. Through such diverse themes that touch all our lives as sex, power, money, violence, parenting, marriage, and work, these accomplished contributors lend their unique perspectives as they share their thoughts, experiences, and stories of forging new and complex identities in a quickly evolving world. Rebecca Walker's first anthology, To Be Real, is considered one of the defining texts of contemporary feminism. Similarly revolutionary and challenging in scope, What Makes a Man articulates and defines the contours and concerns of a new generation of men. Book jacket.