Explains How We Get To Be Men And Women
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In this book, Moore clarifies how we make the transition from child to adult, helping you see how this doesn't happen as efficiently in our society as it did when this transition was a "life or death" matter for the community.  However, the lesson here is (more broadly) about personal transformational change.  If you want to really change your life - making your actions in the world more aligned to your values - this describes the process, and the challenges therein.

Moore's prior works (read "King Warrior Magician Lover") explains the basics of the human personality.  To better understand how you got there (growing out of childhood), read this.  His "Facing The Dragon" talks about how the unpleasant side of the human personality, and the often-untapped power inside each of us.

Highly recommended!
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Want to find out what being a man is really about.
Good positive guidance for teens and young men.
This touches on many aspects from clean minds to staying healthy and fit.
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When I was beginning my investigation of my own gender identity, I started with this book because it was recommended to me.  Now I am recommending it.  This book goes into a great deal of depth about gender identity, and provided some eye-opening facts to help me understand what I have been going through.  I still go back to this book often for reference, and I highly recommend it for friends and family who know nothing about this phenomenon.  Very few people out there really know what transgenderism is all about, and this book can help those people to understand.  I am so thankful to have this book.
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Once I got used to the format this story takes, I found it to be full of insight and wisdom. It has helped me a lot in my continuing efforts to understand the men in my life and how to work with them with our different needs and skills as women. A very special book to me.
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Great read for women and men. Great message about how women we get in they way of other women and should be more supportive with our own gender. Great book!
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In A Guy's Guide to Life, the author Jason Boyett claims he can explain "How to become a man in 224 pages or less"...according to the cover.  Even though I fall outside the target demographic, as a male, naturally I was intrigued, plus I have a 3 year old son who has already asked me where babies come from.  Upon further inspection, I don't think reading this book will automatically make you a man, but it was a very engaging read.

The book is broken into 3 different parts (mind, body, and soul) with five chapters each including such favorites as Manly Myths, Dating, Grooming, Health and Exercise, The Sex Chapter, Family, Friends, and Faith.  For any red-blooded American teenager, The Sex Chapter is sure to grab their attention.  All sarcasm and joking aside, I really enjoyed this book and its refreshing honesty.  The author did a really good job addressing issues that are extremely relevant to an American teen in a way that keeps the conversation light, but still gets the point across.  One section of the book that I really liked was his discussion on how our neighbor is.  He is talking our of the context of loving people, especially loving our neighbor.  Many pastors wishing to preach on the subject would do well to read this section of the book as a part of their sermon preparation.
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If you are wanting to understand why people of the opposite sex seem to be operating under a totally different set or rules, this is the book to get. It is co-written by a married couple, so it really does have both points of view about men and women. There are many great gems in this book.

An added bonus is that it is an easy read, there's fun stories and humor to lighten it up. I enjoy reading about a chapter at a time, and then trying to see if that is true about my significant other. Often, it is true. Some things are less applicable than others but for the most part Bill and Pam Farrel really hit the nail on the head.

I would highly suggest this book for any one who is trying to understand their husband, wife, boyfriend, girlfriend, coworkers, boss, or even friends. I have even learned quite a bit about myself, why I think the way I do and how my brain works. So it can be useful even for learning about yourself.
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This is the best book that I have read that explores what the future can become if we are not careful about how we choose to describe the gender roles. This book showed how powerful words are in labeling the importance of men and women in society. T he men are given a dominant role and women the recessive. Women are reduced to being worthy as long as they fulfill needs of men. But in a turn of events, the women prove that there is more than being servants in their existence. The women in this story take steps to alter men's perception of them by the end of the book. I would recommend this book to anyone who believes in equality between the sexes.
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WOW! Written in 1993 and still relevant!!  I have read the intro and the first chapter so far. This book is amazing and is shedding light on who I have become and who I want to be. It explains why men are they way they are! It also lets men and women alike know that men do not have to stay emotionally broken. There are genetic things that make men certain ways, but it is a myth that men are born emotionally broken!  This book also covers the positive and negative aspects of the feminist movement.  The book also states that men as a whole are going through a major cultural change! Many men are stuck between two ideologies, the new and old. a MUST READ.
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I'm a guy and this helped me out to understand how most women think. Obviously all girls aren't all alike, but this is a good way to word a summary, and really a cheat sheet that us guys can use if you want help understanding how girls are wired. A great read for..just day to day stuff, or anyone that wants understanding. It helped me understand certain things that most women can't change and other things I can do to help. This book would help make it easier for any couple in a relationship.
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In ancient times, boys passed an initiation that changed them into men. Today boys drift along until their 18th birthday and are then suddenly considered an adult. The author has two boys and wanted something to do that would help them become the men he wanted them to be. He wanted his boys to grow up to be God fearing young men with courage, honor, and integrity. This book was created to fill that need. Each chapter (or guidepost) has a key Bible verse, discussion and questions relating to the topic and ends with a movie to watch that will produce more discussion.

I am a mother. But I do have a son and loved the idea of my husband doing this with him when he gets older. My husband was also intrigued. The instructions are straight forward and thought provoking. The topics discussed were definitely things that I want my son to be learning about. As a woman I'm probably not the best judge, but I felt this guide was well written and would be perfect for a father and son to use to initiate the son into manhood.

I received this book free of charge in exchange for my honest review.
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What tells us we are men? Is it how we look on the outside? Is it the way we behave? Unfortunately, if you are looking for these questions, you might as well go away now, for this book is not meant to be read by ideologues who think they need an idea to know.
We have all tread the mass of upgrades to our lives called "women," hopping from one to the next without fulfillment. Some of us have also played the nice guy/poindexter role into night and day until our wallets broke and then we were left without anything. We have tried to be male in so many different ways, but there is one that outshines them all. It is the one that lies above the grave of impossibility.
In his excellent and thorough essay, Keen urges us at the end of the first chapter not to skirt through the book but to read carefully each passage. We've been stranded for too long on a desolate island, asking for attention. Our hearts and minds have been callously stupefied by our advances, and by our society and time, which have been of no help to us at all. Being manly doesn't mean we necessarily have to exaggerate our strength in order to *look* like a man. Instead, the prayer is that we might express something greater within ourselves and not be afraid of how manly we look to others.
One of the first things we must do, Sam says, is to challenge our misconceptions about WOMAN. This is "WOMAN" with all caps. She's the undying witch who comes to scare us, night after night, after we have fallen asleep. The little boy who fears the witch is still there has not left us, for we have not gotten over our very private concerns about who She is.
The quintessential journey into the heart, for a man, starts at the place where he begins to accept the uncertainty of his maleness. Beyond this, he has always an abundance of tools and source material to solve his ordinary problems in everyday ways, and if he can play up to the mastery of this experience he will eventually become a man. In chapter ten, Keen writes about this, telling us a quote by Martin Luther: "Our good is hidden, and so profoundly that it is hidden under its opposite. Thus our life is under death, love of ourselves under hate of ourselves, glory under ignominy, salvation under perdition, justice under sin, strength under infirmity, and universally every one of our affirmations under its negation."
Indeed, our strength does come from its opposite.
If we are to escape past the predicaments that have held us in and reveal the secret knots that we have tied, not only for ourselves, but for our love of the world, then we must undertake the questor's journey into the root of the darkness. Are we men or are we not? Read on...
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Our adult persona has been developed by a series of events and teachings as we go through life.  Life has a way of challenging us to our core and questioning ourselves are we .. enough.  Jennifer Tress has masterfully walked us through her story to give us a time to self-reflect our own story and realize we all struggle, but in the end we are  enough.  Many will feel this is a book primarily for women, but as a manly man, I feel this relates to men just the same.  The book will capture you and I wish the book never ended as we will face challenges in the future as we have in the past.
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I find it a very interesting book.  It's a great way to learn about becoming a young woman.  It has pretty much everything you need to know about your body, and how it changes.  It includes how to take care of yourself and growing up advice.
I recommend this to all girls and young woman ages 8 and up.
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Some interesting observations by a male of what it's like to be female... and how genders are treated differently.
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Ive been reading a lot of newly released books with transgender characters, so I thought this one might be a bit dated, being published in 2012, but it was one of the better books with transgender characters that Ive read. I thought it dealt really well with the difficulties in finding acceptance, and gave a lot of information about starting the process of transitioning without coming across as preachy or too dense.
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Maybe the best book I've read on the meaning of our male and female "-ness."  Our purpose and passion are eternally linked. West  does a phenomenal job explaining.