Real Boys' Voices
By William S. Pollack with Todd Shuster
392 pp. New York
Random House. $25.95
Review excerpt:
We are asked now by two writers, one a philosopher, the other a psychologist, to consider the contemporary fate of America's boys--how they have been faring in recent years. The philosopher, Christina Hoff Sommers, tells us right off, through the wording of her title, that we ought be concerned, even alarmed: there is a War Against Boys; then in a subtitle we learn that Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men. The psychologist, William S. Pollack, offers, with Todd Shuster, Real Boys' Voices and immediately summons the Boy Code, defined as "old rules that favor male stoicism and make boys feel ashamed about expressing weakness or vulnerability."
Christina Hoff Sommers is a resident scholar at AEI.
