[Peace] "Boys to Men? The Crisis in Teenage Masculinity" Weds at Allen Ha ll

[Haber, Laura]

please forward:

Boys to Men?  The Crisis in Teenage Masculinity
A Documentary by Frederick Marx

Wednesday, November 5, at 7:00pm in the South Rec Room of Allen Hall, 1005
W. Gregory, Urbana

"Caught between a macho past and a feminist future, adolescent boys are not
being initiated and mentored into rounded, emotionally expressive, mature
masculinity. The stories of these boys will show why, and point out what
needs to be done." Frederick Marx

"When you look at the kinds of kids who are in trouble in terms of - you
name it - drugs and alcohol, suicide, attention-deficit disorder and
learning disabilities, the prevalence statistics are so skewed toward boys
that it's enough to knock you over."  Dan Kindlon, Raising Cain

"90 percent of the violent crime committed by people younger than 18 is
committed by
boys. What we have is not just a crisis of violence, but a crisis of
violence among young males."  Marjorie Williams, Washington Post, 4/28/00.

"It's boys who are doing this, because of this code about what they can say
and can't say, how they feel about their body self, how they feel about
their self-image, how they feel about themselves in school."  William S.
Pollack, Real Boys.

Laura Haber
Assistant Program Director of Unit One
University of Illinois
68 Allen Hall (MC 050)
1005 W. Gregory
Urbana, IL 61801
(217) 244-2317
l-haber at uiuc.edu