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Article: My Brother's Keeper: What the Social Sciences Do (and Don't) Tell Us About Masculinity.(Book Review)
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- The Christian Century
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- December 4, 2002
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By Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen. InterVarsity, 255 pp., $17.00.
WHEN WOMEN get together and talk turns to the topic of men, it's not uncommon for the conversation to end with someone saying, "Men!" in a certain tone of voice, while another adds, "Men are idiots!" But that judgment doesn't just come from women these days. Some men themselves seem determined to prove that human males are shallow, hormone-driven brutes. From popular-culture artifacts like The Man Show and the ads aired during breaks in football games, to the pseudo-scientific pronouncements of sociobiologists, men are confronted with the notion that to be a man is to be violent, sexually promiscuous and ...