Being What Makes a Man |
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Author:
| Johnson, Jill |
Contribution by:
| Gill, James Jacobsen, David Lazar, David Martin, Lee Miller, Kevin Moore, Dinty Shields, David Skipper, Jason Reddy, Srikanth Starbuck, Scott Ali, Kazim Sukrungruang, Ira Weigl, Bruce Bell, Marvin Braden, Allen Buntin, Simmons Zakrzewski, Paul Clark, Kevin Doyle, Brian Furuness, Bryan |
Series title: | Being What Makes You Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-692-40464-5 |
Publication Date: | Apr 2014 |
Publisher: | University of Nebraska Gender Programs
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $18.00 |
Book Description:
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"Man up! Be a man!" How many times have you heard it? The personal essays and poems in the anthology Being: What Makes a Man, edited by Jill McCabe Johnson, take a close look at the life experiences that (re)define what makes a man. From Marvin Bell sharing his experience as a soldier to Dinty Moore's "Down in the Hole" to David Shields' "Negotiating Against Myself," the authors in Being: What Makes a Man share the sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes hilarious truth about facing love,...
More Description"Man up! Be a man!" How many times have you heard it? The personal essays and poems in the anthology Being: What Makes a Man, edited by Jill McCabe Johnson, take a close look at the life experiences that (re)define what makes a man. From Marvin Bell sharing his experience as a soldier to Dinty Moore's "Down in the Hole" to David Shields' "Negotiating Against Myself," the authors in Being: What Makes a Man share the sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes hilarious truth about facing love, loss, fatherhood, fire, injury, war, and the ever-present challenge to "Be a man!"