Boys don't cry

Here it is at last, the brilliant, personal, and not even sexist book of the millennium about masculinity and politics that the world has been waiting for. Laurie Penny's "Men Don't Cry." But they should, because they have every reason to: rigid images of masculinity still dominate the options for identification—whether in education, work, advertising, or mainstream media. Men are expected to be strong, invincible, wild, and always on the winning track, whether they like it or not. Jack Urwin has had enough. It’s not enough for him that a strong man can cry or take parental leave; he questions why men must be strong at all. Why do we still measure people against stereotypes when we would be much better off without them? This book is the beginning of a long-overdue debate about what positive, modern masculinity can look like and how we can achieve it.