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News about Reviews

Brother David Stendl-Rast, a monk and research psychologist, has taped a talk on Joseph Campbell that has quite a bit to say about the psychospiritual journey. The name of the tape is "Joseph Campbell's Spiritual Challenge". It can be ordered through amazon.com or Sounds True tapes. If anyone wants to review the tape for this web page, please feel free.

Add the book, Raising Cain, Protecting The Emotional Life of Boys, to my bibliography. The book is written by Dan Kindlon and Michael Thompson. Ballantine Books, New York, 1999. This is a similar book to William Pollack's Real Boys. Both will be reviewed down the line. Both books are well researched in describing what these authors call the miseducation of boys. However Raising Cain seems much more balanced concerning the role of father and the masculine in a boy's healthy development. Pollack's book has more of a regressive emphasis on the role of the mother and the feminine in righting the wrongs of the patriarchal miseducation. Any thoughts in comparing these two books would be greatly appreciated.

Susan Faludi, feminist journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner, is getting an immense amount of press, including The New York Times, Newsweek, and Mother Jones, concerning her forthcoming book, Stiffed. The book is supposed to be about the oppressed American male. As she says in a Mother Jones interview, "Being a feminist opens your eyes to the ways men, like women, are imprisoned in cultural stereotypes". Any thoughts on this book would be welcome.

Robert Johnson has a fine interview in "Men's Voices, a quarterly journal" This is a chance to get his most recent thoughts on the male psyche, the feminine, and the state of our society, and "listening to the will of God." The article can be accessed through a MenWeb web site (www.vix.com/menmag/). The journal can be ordered at Men's Voices, 7552 31st Ave. N.E., Seattle, Washington 98115. $20/year.

Warren Farrell is coming out with a new book at the same time of Faludi's book. It's called Women Don't Hear What Men Don't Say, Jeremy Tarcher/Putnam. One prediction: "Father's issues will be to the early twenty-first century what women's issues were to the late twentieth century." There is a good excerpt of the book in "Everyman, A Men's Journal" out of Canada, Sept./Oct. 1999. Subscribe at Everyman: A Men's Journal, PO Box 4617, Station E, Ottawa, ON K1S 5H8, Canada. $20/ 6 issues. Or access their web site at www.everyman.org.

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