Manning Up: How the Rise of Women Has Turned Men into Boys - Tapa dura

A.J. Jacobs, author of" The Year of Living Biblically ""Kay Hymowitz has written a fascinating and important book--one that should be read by every man, woman and man-child in America. So put down your Wii controller, click off the Tucker Max blog, and pick up "Manning Up." You won't regret it." Pamela Paul, author of "The Starter Marriage ""With spot-on detail and zero dogma, Kay Hymowitz has written a smart, incisive analysis of the woes troubling today's young men, oft saddled with the dreary label, 'adultescents.' Anyone interested in the state of the sexes will want to read Hymowitz's wise, accessible and compassionate take." William J. Bennett ""Manning Up" is an important portrayal of the disintegrating covenant that once existed between the sexes. And few can do this better than Kay Hymowitz. She untangles the complex forces threatening marriage for even the most privileged young Americans." Caitlin Flanagan, author of "To Hell with All That: Loving and Loathing Our Inner Housewife ""In her fascinating, brutally honest new book, Kay Hymowitz describes an unintended consequence of the successes of feminism: the creation of a huge generation of aging frat boys, men who have discovered--in the spray tanned, bikini-waxed wonderland of post-feminism--a shangrila they are only too happy to inhabit. Freed from the old tests of manhood, such as the ability to marry and provide for a woman and children, they are biding their time, and leaving many of the best and brightest young women wondering, 'where did all the good men go?' "Manning Up" is an important book for parents, educators and most of all, for today's young women." Neil Howe, co-author of "Millenials Rising: The Next Great Generation ""Kay Hymowitz is a brilliant observer of cultural and social trends in America. "Manning Up" moves in a crescendo of accelerating energy from first chapter to last. Any reader who has ever wondered about changing gender roles and the purpose of marri

In Manning Up, Manhattan Institute fellow and City Journal contributing editor Kay Hymowitz argues that the gains of the feminist revolution have had a dramatic, unanticipated effect on the current generation of young men. Traditional roles of family man and provider have been turned upside down as "pre-adult" men, stuck between adolescence and "real" adulthood, find themselves lost in a world where women make more money, are more educated, and are less likely to want to settle down and build a family. Their old scripts are gone, and young men find themselves adrift. Unlike women, they have no biological clock telling them it's time to grow up. Hymowitz argues that it's time for these young men to "man up."