- Title:
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Boys Will Be Boys: Power, patriarchy and the toxic bonds of mateship (MP3)
- Written by:
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Clementine Ford
- Read by:
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Clementine Ford
- Format:
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Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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1
- Duration:
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10 hours 23 minutes
- MP3 size:
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429 MB
- Published:
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November 28 2018
- Available Date:
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November 28 2018
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781489481061
- Genres:
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Non-fiction; Current Affairs & Politics; Philosophy
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Audible audio
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Format
Price
Bolinda price
Bestselling author
Longlisted Australian Book Industry Award / General Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2019
The incendiary new audiobook about toxic masculinity and misogyny from Clementine Ford, author of the bestselling feminist manifesto Fight Like a Girl.
Clementine Ford reports that one of the questions she is most asked in person and online is 'how do I raise my son to be a feminist? How do I make sure he's a supporter rather than a perpetrator?' That is a question that many parents with sons are haunted by. Now that Clem is mother to a baby boy of her own, it is a question that haunts her, too.
How does a feminist raise a son in a world that conditions boys into entitlement, privilege and power at the expense not just of girls' humanity but also their own? All boys start innocent, but by the time they are adolescents many of them will subscribe to a view of masculinity that is openly contemptuous of women and girls. This explosive new work will look at toxic masculinity and the closed ranks of brotherhood that shape an entitled, disrespectful and potentially dangerous idea of manhood.
In Boys Will Be Boys, bestselling and groundbreaking author of Fight Like a Girl Clementine Ford dismantles the age-old idea that entitlement, aggression and toxicity are natural realms for boys and reveals how the patriarchy we live in is as harmful to boys and men as it is to women and girls.
'Ford’s arguments are well thought through, and backed by solid and wide-ranging research ... highly recommended to anyone interested in gender issues.'
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