Knights Without Armor - Softcover

Aaron Kipnis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0874776589 ISBN 13: 9780874776584

Publisher: TarcherPerigee, 1991

Synopsis

Explore's the meaning of being a man today and addresses fathers and sons, mothers and sons, addiction and recovery, grief, work and workaholism, male friendship, men's rights, new rites of passage, and much more

About this title

About the Author

Aaron Kipnis, Ph.D. is president of The Fatherhood Coalition, a non-profit organization dedicated to aiding men in developing the skills and resources needed to best parent their children. He is the author of Knights Without Armor, co-author of What Women and Men Really Want, and many book chapters and articles on topics concerning men and masculinity. His most recent book is "Angry Young Men: How Parents, Educators and Counselors can Help "Bad Boys" become Good Men. (Jossey-Bass Publishers, September, 1999)As co-directors of the Gender Relations Institute, Aaron and his wife, Liz Herron, facilitate male/female communication workshops nationwide and hold private consultations with couples in Santa Barbara, CA. Dr. Kipnis is on the faculty of Pacifica Graduate Institute where he trains graduate students in clinical and depth psychology. He is an international speaker and consultant on male psychology to myriad professional organizations, universities and training institutes. His greatest passions, outside work and family, are fishing and talking with old men.

Reviews

Males will find this a powerful volume. Kipnis, a psychotherapist who serves as the co-director of California's Pangaea Institute for Gender Studies, disapprovingly examines the treatment given male infants, children and adolescents, chastising society for forcing them to measure themselves by the standards of heroes. Although in near accord with the aims of groups like NOW, he also makes telling arguments that some feminists are motivated primarily by hatred of men, and shows how males are discriminated against in such matters as divorce, child custody, sentencing for crimes, etc. The author presents 12 tasks for men--for example, "to build male community and begin healing the wounds between the sexes"--and urges them to stand up for their social and political rights. More didactic than Iron John (although strongly influenced by the Robert Bly work), this is perhaps a more helpful guide for what Kipnis calls "the wounded male."
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: TarcherPerigee
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0874776589
• ISBN 13: 9780874776584
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1