Iron John
Subtitle: A Book About Men
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: July 27, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780306813764
Subjects: Men's studies; Psychology; Gender Psychology; Sociology Of Men; Gender Studies; Men's Studies - General; General; Masculinity; Men; United States
First sentence: We talk a great deal about "the American man," as if there were some constant quality that remained stable over decades, or even within a single decade.
Description: Bly uses the Grimm fairy tale "Iron John," in which the narrator, or "Wild Man," guides a young man through eight stages of male growth, to remind us of archetypes long forgotten-images of vigorous masculinity, both protective and emotionally centered.Simultaneously poetic and down-to-earth, it combines the grandeur of myth with the practical and often painful lessons of our own histories.