Since 1977, NCFM has been committed to ending harmful discrimination and stereotypes against boys, men, their families and the women who love them.
We are a gender inclusive, nonpartisan, ethnically diverse organization that effects civil rights reform through advocacy, education, outreach, services and litigation.
Forgetting Children Born of War: Setting the Human Rights Agenda in Bosnia and Beyond. By R. Charli Carpenter. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. 273 pages. www.cup.columbia.edu. No price listed on book but website gives price as $37. Review by J. Steven Svoboda R. Charli Carpenter, assistant professor of political science at the University...
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Growing Balls: Personal Power for Young Men. By David N. Hafter. Philadelphia: XLibris, 2006. www.growingballs.com. 172 pages. Price varies. California marriage and family therapist has written what is apparently his first book, a life guide for young men between the ages of roughly 15 to 25. It’s a genuine gem. Hafter manages to find...
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Endowed: Regulating the Male Sexed Body. By Michael Thomson. New York: Taylor & Francis Group, 2008. 194 pp. www.taylorandfrancis.com. No price stated but website gives price as 18.99 British pounds. Keele University Law Professor Michael Thomson has published his first book, and it’s a flawed yet truly thought-provoking examination of various aspects of the...
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The End of Men—And the Rise of Women. By Hanna Rosin. New York: Riverhead (Penguin) Books, 2012. Riverheadbooks.com. $27.95. 310 pages. Review by J. Steven Svoboda Hanna Rosin, a senior editor of The Atlantic, has produced an interesting, potentially groundbreaking book based on a cover article she wrote in 2010 for the magazine...
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NCFM NOTE: The Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) is an annual process through which eligible and approved nonprofit corporations are authorized to solicit donations from Federal employees. Without approval soliciting Federal employees for donations is illegal. NCFM has an “International” designation allowing it to solicit donations from Federal employees around the world. The actual campaign...
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NCFM NOTE: It’s as true today as it was in 2002… About the Author: Steven S. Richmond, MSW, MA is a psychotherapist, prize-winning author, and expert on social services delivery systems. His first book, Public Welfare: Notes from Underground, has been required reading for graduate students of social work for more than two decades....
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The Purpose of Boys: Helping Our Sons Find Meaning, Significance, and Direction in Their Lives. By Michael Gurian. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2009. 248 pp. $26.95. Review by J. Steven Svoboda. Why has Michael Gurian, author of over twenty books mostly relating to children and/or gender, devoted a book to boys and purpose? In answer...
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FIVE STARS! As best I can tell, having had nearly 200 reviews published in the last 15 years or so on books relating to men’s rights, gender, and fatherhood, this book is unique. The author, a “recovering lawyer,” tells it like it is and it ain’t pretty. Men get the shaft, as it were,...
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By Steven Svoboda NCFM Public Relations Director How Obama’s Gender Policies Undermine America. By Diana Furchtgott-Roth. New York: Encounter Books, 2010. www.encounterbooks.com. 47 pp. $5.99. Review by J. Steven Svoboda. How Obama’s Gender Policies Undermine America by Diana Furchtgott-Roth is the sixteenth in a series of small chapbooks Encounter Books is offering in a...
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