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Update 12/31/98. (Also see What's
New 1999.)
- Bookreviews - New books that we have received since the
last up-date which were published or copywrited in 1998:
The Art of Doing Nothing: Simple ways to make time
for yourself, Veronique Vienne, If Life is a Game, These
are the Rules: Ten rules for being human, Cherie
Carter-Scott, and There's Nothing in the Middle of the Road but
Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos, Jim Hightower. For
1997: Country
Bound: Trade your business suit blues for blue jean
dreams, Marilyn & Tom Ross. For 1996,
The Dark God: A personal journey through the
underworld, Nicholas Mann, Greenfire: Making
love with the Goddess, Sirona Knight and Mothers and
Sons: In their own words, Mariana Cook.
- Calendar -
updated
- Kidstuff -
updated
- Links - updated
- Mediawatch - New:
outpost.com
& AOL Demonstrate Corporate Sanctioned Animal
Abuse
- Newsbytes - What the
media are saying about men.
- Press - Over 240 ideas
for shows, articles and speakers.
- Publications -
update. Also see Newsbytes
for the cover stories from new magazine covers.
- Today
12/22/98 update:
- Bookreviews - New books that we have received since the
last up-date which were published or copywrited in 1998,
are listed here in alphabetical order by author: Better Homes
& Gardens New Father Book: What every new father
needs to know to be a good dad, Wade Horn & Jeffrey
Rosenberg, Male Menopaws: The silent howl, Marty
Sacks. Questions for My Father: Finding the man
behind your dad, Vincent Staniforth, Raising Our Athletic
Daughters: How sports can build self-esteem and save girls'
lives, Jean Zimmerman & Gil Reavill. For 1997:
Tuesdays with Morrie: An old man, a young man and life's
greatest lesson, Mitch Albom, New! The Prodigal
Father: Reuniting fathers and their children, Mark Bryan,
It's a Guy Thing: An owner's manual for women, David
Deida, and Whores & Other Feminists, Jill Nagle.
1996 The Male
Almanac: Essential new information about sex, food,
fitness, health and life, ed Michael Lafavore, The Web of
Life: Weaving the values that sustain us, a celebration of
family, community & nature, Richard Louv. There are also
two books we recently received that are not reviewed but we wanted
to make note of them: Vernon Johnson's,
Intervention: How to help someone who doesn't want help,
A step-by-step guide for families and friends of chemically
dependent persons, Johnson Institute, 1986 and Soldier's
Heart: Survivors Views of Combat Trauma, ed by Sarah
Hansel, Ann Steidle, Grace Zaczek and Ron Zaczek, Sidran Press,
1995.
- Calendar -
updated all months plus International, National and Region
listings.
- Kidstuff
- Links - new hyperlinks are
happening with each update including Senate and Representatives
addresses under "Government-Congress".
- Newsbytes -
New: "Think being a tourist in Florida is
dangerous. It is, especially if you have sex."
- Press - Over 240 ideas
for shows, articles and speakers.
- Publications
- Today
- Where to
Write: Email addresses of Senate and
Representatives plus bulk lists for direct mailing to all Senate
members who have email address, direct to all Representatives,
direct to all Senate and Representatives, and the same breakdowns
for Republicans and Democrates.
12/13/98 update:
- Bookreviews - Reviews new books published in 1996,
1997, 1998
and 1999. These are in
addition to the 2000 books we already have on file (see books).
(Click on the "Lenny" icon to see the book's cover). New books
that we have received since the last up-date which were published
or copywrited in 1999
are listed here in alphabetical order by author: Unjustified
Damnation, Jack Berry. 1998
books include: Hunting for Hope: A father's
journey, Scott Russell Sanders. 1997
books include: The Romance of Risk: why teenagers do the
things they do, Lynn Ponton.
- Calendar -
updated all months plus International, National, Regional
- Kidstuff
- Links
- Newsbytes - What the
media are saying about men. New: "Male
Anorexia: One million victims, ashamed and overlooked."
New: "Men have five fewer years to enjoy life versus women.
That's good news." New: "Michael J. Fox - you're never too
young to get a complete health check-up." New: "So You
Wanna Kill Yourself? Gays and Suicide."
- Press
- Today
11/30/98 Update:
- Bookreviews - New books 1998
listed here in alphabetical order by author: The Art of
Pilgrimage: The seeker's guide to making travel sacred,
Phil Cousineau; Today I Feel Silly & Other Moods
that Make My Day, Jamie Lee Curtis; Simple Fun for Busy
People, Gary Krane; Ghost Radio, Dick Lourie; Great
Books for Boys, Kathleen Odean; Spiritual Notes to
Myself, Hugh Prather; and the At-Home Dad Handbook,
Barry Reszel ed. Those from 1997
are: Great Books for Girls, Kathleen Odean.
- Calendar -
updates for Dec, Jan, Feb, Mar, May, Jun, Jul, International,
National, Regional
- Kidstuff
- Links
- Newsbytes
- POV
- Press
- Publications -
most recent issues received plus new publications which have been
added for the first time: Men's Studies News, The
Prevention Report and Stuff for Men. (Click on the
"Lenny" icon to see the magazine's cover). Consider giving a child
one of the following this holiday season: Ladybug, New
Moon Girl, Spider, Stone Soup and/or
Zillions.
- Requests
- Resources
- Today
10/31/98 Update:
November is International Impotence Awareness Month - information
and resources on the subject including additional information
regarding Viagra and alternatives to Viagra. impotency@menstuff.org
See 9. Impotency
& Viagra
- Calendar -
updates for Oct, Nov, Dec, Jan, International, National,
Regional
- Links
- Today
10/11/98 Update:
- Calendar -
updates for Oct, Nov, Jan, International, National, Regional
- Links
- Today
October 12 - Indigenous Persons Day (referred to be some as
Columbus Day) reminding us how many of our ancestors treated some of
our ancestors and how much of it is still going on. indigenous@menstuff.org
November 1 - International Impotence Awareness Month -
information and resources on the subject including additional
information regarding Viagra and alternatives to Viagra. impotency@menstuff.org
9/30/98 Update
- Bookreviews - New books that we have received since the last
up-date which were published or copywrited in 1998
are listed here in alphabetical order by author: Running on
Ritalin: A physician reflects on children, society, and
performance in a pill, Lawrence Diller, Screaming
Men: Poems about men and masculinities, David
Jackson, and The Violent Social World of Black Men, William
Oliver.
- Those published in 1997
include: Men Cry in the Dark, Michael Baisden, and
Promiscuities: The secret struggle for womanhoowd,
Naomi Wolf.
- Calendar -
updates for Oct, Nov, Dec, International, National, and
Regional.
- Links
- Publications -
most recent issues received plus new publications which have been
added for the first time: A number of publications getting ready
for Children's Day October 11. Adoptive Families, Green
Teacher, Home Education, Homeschooling Today,
Practical Homeschooling, Ladybug, New Moon
Girl, Spider, Stone Soup and
Zillions.
- Requests - What we and others
are asking for. Have you made a difference today? You
could start by helping someone out here.
- Today
October 1-6 - Interesting offer for men's organizations and
authors. Check it out.
October 1-7 - Domestic Violence Prevention Month - information
and resources for male and female perpetrators and male and female
victims. violence@menstuff.org
October 11 - Children's Day - An introduction to Kidstuff.
Information for kids of all ages and has additional hope of getting
some of us to find the kid inside and stop being so serious,
especially with our children and partner. kidstuff@menstuff.org
9/20/98 Update
10th Annual Prostate Cancer Awareness Week: A National Education,
Service and Research program, September 21-25, 1998. Click on "Today"
for new information daily on this important topic.
- Bookreviews - New books that we have received since the last
up-date which were published or copywrited in 1998
are listed here in alphabetical order by author: have 26 books, 4
videos and 92 links concerning prostate cancer. See Resources
- Calendar -
updates for Oct., Nov, Jan.
- Links - new "hotlinks" are
happening with each up-date. Includes nearly a hundred hotlinks to
organizations working with prostate cancer.
- Publications
- Requests
- Today
9/15/98 Update
- Bookreviews - New books that we have received since the last
up-date which were published or copywrited in 1998
including How to Succeed with Women, Ron Louis
& David Copeland; Quotations for a Man's Soul,
Michael Maggio; Sex, Money & Sports: Quotations
on the only things men
care talk
about, Micahel Maggio; and The Manipulated Man, Esther
Vilar.
- Calendar - event
updates for Sep, Oct, Nov and Mar.
- Publications:
We've added a number of "family/parenting" type magazines since we
will be doing a feature during December under "Today" concerning
all kinds of Kidstuff. In reading them you have to understand that
with many editorial staffs, the "father" still isn't considered an
active part of the family. But, there are signs that things may be
changing, abet slowly. Also, Hero has their premiere issue
here and we've added the Child Protection Report.
- Today
9/12/98 Update
- Bookreviews - New books that we have received since the last
up-date which were published or copyrighted in 1998
include Cutting Loose: Why women who end their
marriages do so well, Ashton Applewhite; Marriage
Shock: The transformation of women into wives, Dalma
Heyn; The Vagina Monologues, Eve Ensler.
- Those published in 1997
include: Gender Shock: Exploding the myths of male and
female, Phuyllis Burke
- Calendar - event
updates for Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec 98 and Jan, Mar, Jun, Jul 99.
- Links
8/31/98 Update
- Bookreviews - New books that we have received since the last
up-date which were published or copywrited in 1998
are listed here in alphabetical order by author: The Temporary
Society: Under the impact of accelerating change, Warren
Bennis & Philip Salter; Circumcision
Exposed: Rethinking a medical and cultural tradition,
Billy Ray Boyd; Survival Skills for the Modern
Man: Life, love, work and play, Donn Davis; Longing
for Dad: Father loss and its impact, Beth Erickson; and
Divorce: The best resources to help you survive;
Dan Neuharth.
- Those published in 1997
include: A Father's Book of the Spirit, Daily
meditations, William Alexander; He Meant She
Meant: The definitive male/female dictionary, Jenny Lyn
Bader & Bill Brazell; Prodigal Father: Reuniting
fathers with their children with a special section for
mothers, Mark Bryan; Abused Men: The hidden side
of domestic violence, Philip Cook; Kill the Body, The Head
will Fall: A closer look at women, violence and
aggressions, Rene Denfeld; 50 Year Dash: The
feelings, foibles and fears of being half a century old, Bob
Greene; The Black Man's Guide to Working in a White Man's
World, E LeMay Lathan; Politics of
Masculinities: Men in Movements, Michael Messner; If
You had Controlling Parents: How to make peace with
your past and take your place in the world; Rich Wemhoff;
Dangers Men Face: Overcoming the five greatest threats to
living life well, Jerry White; Zig Ziglar.
- Those published in 1996
include: Missing from Action: A powerful
historical response to the crisis among American men, Weldon
Hardenbrook; My Life as a Male Anorexic, Michael Krasnow;
Fatal Advice: How safe-sex education went wrong,
Cindy Patton; List Your Self: Listmaking as the way
to self-discovery, Ilene Segalove & Paul Bob Velick;
How to Love a PMSing Woman: When timing is
everything, Jay Stuller.
- Calendar
- Links - New listing for all
U.S. Senator's who have an email address.
- Publications -
most recent issues received plus new publications which have been
added for the first time: Contemporary Urology (note
International Impotence Education Month in November - special
information will be shown with a click on Today on our homepage
during that time.)
- Requests
- Today - Mark September 21-27 on your calendar. In support of
National Prostate Cancer Awareness Week, we will provide
information on an important aspect of Prostate Cancer. This
information will change daily. Also, September 13 is Grandparents
Day, a good time to remind your grandfathers to schedule a
prostate exam.
- Minor up-dates to all remaining pages.
8/9/98 Update
- Bookreviews - Fall of
the Phantom Lord, Andrew Todhunter
- Calendar
- Links
- Publications -
most recent issues received plus new publications which have been
added for the first time: Gear, The New Magazine for Men,
Premiere Issue.
- Requests
- Today
7/31/98 Update
- Bookreviews - We've
added a new feature at the front of our difference book review
sections: we have shown the new books broken out by one of the 100
men's issues we cover. Following this index are the actual
reviews.Each month we add a number of new men's books published
since 1996. New books that we have received since the last up-date
which were publisded or copywrited in 1998/99 are listed below in
alphabetical order by author: A Guy's Guide to
Dating: Everything you need to know about love, sex,
relationships and other things too terrible to contemplate,
Brendan Baber & Eric Spitznagel; Venus in Blue
Jeans: Why Mothers & Daughters (ed and Fathers) need
to talk about sex. Sage advice and practical strategies for
guiding girls toward womanhood by Nathalie Bartle;
Conquering Bladder and Prostate Problems: The
authoritative guide for men and women, Jerry G. Blaivas;
A New Psychotherapy for Traditional Men, Gary Brooks;
Prostate Health in 90 Days: without drugs or surgery,
Larry Clapp; Dr. D's Handbook for Men Over 40, Peter
Dorsen; Natural Medicine for Prostate Problems, Ron
Falcone; Viagra: The potency pill, Kenneth
Goldberg; Fathering Daughters: Reflections by Men ed
by DeWitt Henry and James Alan McPherson; Viagra: The
Potency Promise, Larry Katzenstein; The Prostate Cancer
Sourcebook: How to make informed treatment choices,
Marcus Loo & Marian Betancourt; End Your Carpal Tunnel
Pain Without Surgery: A daily 15-minute program to
prevent & treat repetitive strain injury of the arm, wrist and
hand, Kate Montgomery; When She Was Bad: Violent women
and the myth of innocence, Patricia Pearson;
A Revolutionary Approach to Prostate
Cancer: Alternatives to standard treatment options doctors
& survivors share their knowledge, Aubrey Pilgrin;
Shadow Syndromes: The mild forms of major mental disorders
that sabotage us, John Ratney & Catherine Johnson;
The Prostate Book: Sound advice on symptoms and
tratment, Stephen N Rous; Taking It Like a
Man: white masculinity, masochism and contemporary American
culture by David Savran; The Testosterone
Syndrome: The critical factor for energy, health &
sexuality-reversing the male menopause, Eugene Shippen
& William Fryer; Just Married: a sexy,
irreverent, eye-opening look at how we met, dated and married the
one we love by Barry Sinrod and Marlo Grey; Wounded Boys
Heroic Men: A man's guide to recovering from child
abuse, Daniel Jay Sonkin; Healing Your
Prostate: Natural Cures that Work, Eva Urbaniak (1999);
Viagra: A guide to the phenomenal potency-promoting
drug, Susan Vaughan; Sex Smart: how your childhood
shaped your sexual life and what to do about it by Aline
Zoldbrod and The Journal of Men's Studies: A scholarly
journal about men and masculinities, Summer, 1998, Vol 6 No
3..
- Calendar
- Links
- Publications -
most recent issues received plus these new publications which have
been added for the first time: Mondo Uomo (English
edition), Parent-Northern California, Men's Voices,
The Rattle and Spy
- Today
6/30/98 Update
- Bookreviews - Appearing
in alphabetical order, new books published in 1998:
Boyhood: Growing Up Male, A Multicultural
Anthology, Franklin Abbot; My Gender Workbook, Kate
Bornstein; Men Doing Feminism, Tom Digby; Single
Parenting from a Father's Heart and Learning about Myself
(LAMS) Program for At-Rick Parents (plus workbook), Verna
Rickard.
- Calendar
- Links
- Newsbytes - What the
media are saying about men - want to respond?
- POV - Additional Viewpoints -
commentary on current events as they relate to men/boys.
Where appropriate, you might like to respond to the
corporations involved and let them know what you think.
- Publications -
most recent issues received plus first issue of Salt Lake Men's
Association newsletter.
- Today
5/30/98 Update
- International
Men's Month In celebration of International Men's Month, June
1-30, we will be providing information about a specific men's
issues each day starting at 12:01am. A click on "Today" on our
homepage will reveal what the topic is for the day. Check over the
entire schedule below. If you have information, resources, books,
etc. that should be added, email them to us at menstuff@aol.com.
- Bookreviews - Appearing
in alphabetical order, new books published in 1998:
Carmen Renee Berry & Lynn Barrington's Daddies
& Daughters; Armin Brott's, The New
Father: A Dad's Guide to the Toddler Years; H.
Jackson Brown's, Life's Little Treasure Book on Fathers;
Richard Carlson's, Don't Sweat the Small Stuff with Your
Family; James Dodson's Faithful
Travelers: A father, his daughter, a fly-fishing journey
of the heart; Gerald Early's Body Language: Writers on
sports; Bruce Hamilton's Brief Messages to Father;
Maxwell Taylor Kennedy's Make Gentle the Life of this World,
The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy; Carole Kammen & Jodi
Gold's Call to Connection: Bringing sacred tribal values
into modern life; Steven Lamm's, The Virtual Solution:
Marianne Larned's Stone Soup for the World: Life-changing
stories of kindness & courageous acts of service; Rob
Mazzeo's A Man's Viewpoint: viewing gender issues
through men's eyes; Marlene Perchinske's
Commitment: fatherhood in black America; Thomas
Moore's The Soul of Sex: Cultivating life as an act of
love; Gail Sheehy's Understanding Men's Passages:
Discovering the New Map of Men's Lives; Deborah Tannen's
The Argument Culture: Moving from Debate to Dialogue; and
Elizabeth Wurtzel's Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women.
These are in addition to the 2000 books we already have on file
(see books).
- Calendar
- Links
- Publications -
most recent issues received. Wingspan is back and England
has produced yet another men's topical magazine for our
newsstands, Deluxe.
- Today
5/17/98 Update
Starting this month, our plan is to update this site at least each
month by the end of the month.
- Bookreviews - Reviews
more new books published in 1996,
1997 and 1998.
These are in addition to the 2000 books we already have on file
(see books).
- Calendar
- Links
- Newsbytes
- POV - Additional Viewpoints -
commentary on current events as they relate to men/boys.
Where appropriate, you might like to respond to the
corporations involved and let them know what you think. Walt
Disney Promotes "No Fear" in Team Mickey, Their Retail Store
at the Disneyland Hotel; Crayola Denigrates Native Americans
with inappropriate names for a crayon color.
- Publications -
most recent issues received. (Click on the "Lenny" icon to see the
magazine's cover). M.E.N. from Seattle Men has gone out of
print, Wingspan had their first issue in a couple of years
in January. And, we've added Action, National Coalition for
the Protection of Children and Families; Assets, the
magazine of ideas for healthy communities and healthy youth; and
Father Inc. with Pierce Brosnan on the cover, Girls'
Life, and John Gray's Mars & Venus.
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