{"product_id":"boymom-reimagining-boyhood-in-the-age-of-impossible-masculinity-paperback","title":"Boymom: Reimagining Boyhood in the Age of Impossible Masculinity - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRuth Whippman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCombining painfully honest memoir, cultural analysis, and reporting, \u003ci\u003eBoyMom\u003c\/i\u003e is a humorous and heartbreaking deep dive into the complexities of raising boys in our fraught political moment.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Rapist, school-shooter, incel, man-child, interrupter, mansplainer, boob-starer, birthday forgetter, frat boy, dude-bro, homophobe, self-important stoner, emotional-labor abstainer, non-wiper of kitchen counters. Trying to raise good sons suddenly felt like a hopeless task.\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs the culture wars rage, and masculinity has been politicized from all sides, feminist writer and mother of three boys Ruth Whippman finds herself conflicted and scared. While the right pushes a dangerous vision of fantasy manhood, her feminist peers often dismiss boys as little more than entitled predators-in-waiting. Meanwhile her home life feels like a daily confrontation with the triumph of nature over nurture. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith young men in the grip of a loneliness epidemic and dying by suicide at a rate of nearly four times their female peers, Whippman asks: How do we raise our sons to have a healthy sense of self without turning them into privileged assholes? How can we find a feminism that holds boys to a higher standard but still treats them with empathy? And what do we do when our boys won't cooperate with our plans? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhippman digs into the impossibly contradictory pressures boys now face; and the harmful blind spots of male socialization that are leaving boys isolated, emotionally repressed, and adrift. Feminist gonzo-style, she spends months interviewing incels, reports on a conference for boys accused of sexual assault; crashes at a residential therapy center for young men in Utah, talks to a wide range of psychologists and other experts, and gets boys of all backgrounds to open up about sex, consent, porn, body image, mental health, cancel culture, screens, friendship and loneliness. Along the way, she finds her simple certainties about male privilege seriously challenged. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith wit, honesty, and a refusal to settle for easy answers, \u003ci\u003eBoyMom \u003c\/i\u003echarts a new path to give boys a healthier, more expansive, and fulfilling story about their own lives.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRuth Whippman\u003c\/b\u003e is a British author, journalist, and cultural critic living in the United States. A former BBC documentary director and producer, her writing has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times, Time\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, \u003ci\u003eNew York \u003c\/i\u003emagazine, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian, HuffPost, \u003c\/i\u003e and elsewhere. \u003ci\u003eFortune\u003c\/i\u003e described her as one of the \"25 sharpest minds\" of the decade. She is the author of the book \u003ci\u003eAmerica the Anxious, \u003c\/i\u003e which was a \u003ci\u003eNew York Post\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year, a\u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Editors' Choice and Paperback Row pick. She lives in California with her husband and three sons.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 7.9 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 07, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52012138627373,"sku":"9780593577653","price":19.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/boymom-reimagining-boyhood-in-the-age-of-impossible-masculinity-paperback-8936113.webp?v=1777443848","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/boymom-reimagining-boyhood-in-the-age-of-impossible-masculinity-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}