🎧 Boys Will Be Boys by Clementine Ford

Clementine Ford explores toxic masculinity and misogyny, starting from the question she is asked most often: how to raise a son to be a feminist, a supporter rather than a perpetrator. In this unabridged audiobook, the author reads it herself.

Key Themes

• Raising sons to be feminists and supporters
• Questioning the idea that entitlement, aggression and toxicity are natural for boys
• How patriarchy harms boys and men as well as women and girls
• Toxic masculinity and misogyny

Sissoo recommends this because it looks closely at the ideas boys grow up with. It shows that patriarchy harms everyone, not only women and girls.

If it raises questions about family, gender or how you were raised, you can talk them through with a practitioner in Speaking & Listening Therapies.

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