📚 Boys Will Be Boys by Clementine Ford

Australian feminist writer Clementine Ford sets out to answer the question she is asked most often: how do you raise a son to respect women? Along the way, she argues that patriarchy harms boys and men as well as women and girls.

Key Themes

• Raising sons to respect women
• How patriarchy harms boys and men too
• Gender norms that reach children from early childhood
• Popular culture and how housework is shared

Sissoo recommends this because it invites honest reflection on the gender norms we pass on, often without noticing. It looks at how families, homes and culture shape the way boys grow up, and it asks for kinder, fairer ways of living together.

If the book stirs questions about your own upbringing, family or relationships, you might like to talk them through with a practitioner in Speaking & Listening Therapies.

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