Despite regular media trashing, men's groups are becoming increasingly popular. In this issue we explore different aspects of this important phenomenom.
Editorial - Men's Groups.
All Out Brothers: A way forward for men in the nineties? Derek Shiel reflects on David Findlay's Brothers Programme. Leading Man: What is Michael Simmon's Network for a New Men's Leadership? Nigel Larcombe and Paul Farquharson find out. Wild at Heart: A modern rite of passage? Paul Wolf-Light takes a look at Alex Wildwood's Innovative Everyman Programme. Navel-Gazing or World-Changing? Do men's groups really achieve anything? Peter Baker looks back at ten year's experiences. Exercising Masculinity: Stuck for ideas for your men's group? John Rowan helps out. Pulling the Punches: Given up hope about ending male violence? Therapy can help, says Everyman Centre counsellor Robert Hart. The Guilty Pleasures Shop: Turned off by the pornography debate? John Jordan describes a dramatic new perspective. P.C. Rider: Do you see bikers as leather-clad macho monsters? Stuart Hartill sticks up for the boys in the saddle. Tate Male: Andrew Stephenson looks at the Tate Gallery's Visualising Masculinity exhibition.
Book Reviews
Women Respond to the Men's Movement : Pornography, Women, Violence and Civil Liberties. A Radical New View : Sex Exposed, Sexuality and the Pornography Debate : Male victims of Sexual Assault : Intervention For Men Who Batter, An Ecological Approach : Not Guilty, In Defence of the Modern Man : Discovering Men : Men's Silences, Predicaments in Masculinity : The Inward Gaze, Masculinity & Subjectivity in Modern Culture : Boy Into Man: A Fathers' Guide to Initiation of Teenage Sons : Women's Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice and Mind