Amateur

a true story about what makes a man

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Thomas Page McBee: Amateur (2018)

204 pages

English language

Published Aug. 22, 2018

ISBN:
978-1-5011-6874-1
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OCLC Number:
1011115404

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4 stars (6 reviews)

"From an award-winning writer whose work bristles with 'hard-won strength, insight, agility, and love' (Maggie Nelson), an exquisite and troubling narrative of masculinity, violence, and society"--

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Insightful and light

4 stars

I found some interesting and novel ideas about masculinity, but I felt most of them lacked development. They felt like glimpses of light, some interesting perspectives about familiar subjects, and I only wish the author had spent some more time delving into them. Perhaps I was waiting for a more 'academic' text. The book does include some short interviews with researchers and includes a reading list at the end, which is great and I'll probably find what I was looking for in some of them.

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Subjects

  • Social aspects
  • Men
  • Masculinity
  • Identity
  • Psychology