'An impassioned polemic highlighting the contrasting ways in which how boys and girls are raised harms them both.'
Boys Will Be Boys
Power, Patriarchy and Toxic Masculinity
Description
'The most important thing you'll read this year' Elle
The incendiary new book about toxic masculinity and misogyny from Clementine Ford, author of the bestselling feminist manifesto, Fight Like A Girl.
Boys Will Be Boys answers the question Clementine Ford is most often asked: 'How do I raise my son to respect women?’
With equal parts passion and humour, Ford reveals how patriarchal society is as destructive for men as it is for women, creating a dangerously limited idea of what it is to be a man. She traces the way gender norms creep into the home from early childhood, through popular culture or the division of housework and shines a light on what needs to change for equality to become a reality.
Reviews
'A damning look at toxic masculinity. It's the most important thing you'll read this year.'
‘Ford's book, which draws on current events in Australia, the UK and the US as well as her own life as a wife and mother of a son, launches yet another furious and necessary salvo at the gender status quo while offering a blueprint for a more enlightened world. A witty polemic with significant contemporary value.’
‘Ferocious, incisive, an effective treatise.’
