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	Mohrbooks Literary Agency Sebastian Ritscher
Original language
English
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Fiction: narrative themes

HOW TO RAISE A FEMINIST SON

Sonora Jha

Motherhood, Masculinity, and the Making of A Family

This powerful memoir-in-essays is the answer to the hunger in society for a conversation about boys, their masculinity, their alienation, their vulnerability, and the feminism they may now be ready to embrace.

HOW TO RAISE A FEMINIST SON is written as a collection of interconnected essays about what it takes (the triumphs, the missteps, the heartaches) to raise a young man who "gets it" and actively works at being part of the solution. The sharp, vulnerable, and clear-eyed essays explore Jha's decision to raise her son away from the influences of patriarchy in India but within the complications of race and toxic masculinity in America, all from her perspective as a feminist, and immigrant single mother. The book brings in personal narrative, cultural criticism, and social scientific research.

An essay that forms part of this new book was titled To Raise a Feminist Son, Talk to Him About Aziz Ansari. HOW TO RAISE A FEMINIST SON is the answer to the hunger in society for a conversation about boys, their masculinity, their alienation, their vulnerability, and the feminism they may now be ready to embrace.

Sonora Jha, Ph.D. is a feminist media scholar, a political essayist, journalist and journalism professor, and the author of New Feminisms in South Asian Social Media, Film, and Literature (Routledge, 2017) as well as the novel Foreign (Random House India, 2013). At Seattle University, Jha is a Professor in the Department of Communication and an Associate Dean for Academic Community in the College of Arts & Sciences.

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Book Published 2021-04-06 by Sasquatch Books

Comments

Part memoir, part parenting guide, [How to Raise a Feminist Son] combines Jha's life story and her indispensable advice and is essential reading for today's parents.

We need to grow better men. In this fierce, elegant, necessary book, Sonora Jha tells us how she did just that. Weaving together the personal and the political, Jha fearlessly examines our current moment and how it affects the young men among us. How to Raise A Feminist Son scorches, illuminates, and above all challenges us to do better.

Essential reading for any parent, loved one, or teacher seeking to raise feminist boys in these times. A strong case for how teaching our boys to show vulnerability, empathy, and remorse can be the path to freedom. Sonora Jha asks, 'Can boys be feminists?' The answer is a resounding YES.

...an urgent, fervent plea to raise feminist sons in this trenchant guide[...] touching and always impassioned, this is an excellent resource for like-minded parents.

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Sonora Jha takes on the hardest questions and the most-fraught conversations with nuance and grace[...] Her insights are invaluable.

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You can't punish your way to a more feminist world, I've long believed; you have to create, encourage, invent that world, especially in how you raise kids, but that's only one reason Sonora Jha's book is exhilarating and inspiring. It's a beautiful hybrid of memoir, manifesto, instruction manual, and rumination on the power of story and possibilities of family I can't wait to put in the hands of everyone raising kids or thinking about how we do it and how it could be different.

Part memoir... part how-to guide, including reflection prompts at the end of each chapter. The book explores race, gender, pop culture and power dynamics, and consistently acknowledges the imperfections inherent in pursuing ideals. By weaving moving, personal stories about her own life and her son's life together with research and interviews, Jha encourages readers to embrace the difficulties and the joys simultaneously.

In How to Raise a Feminist Son, Jha weaves her own fascinating, sometimes heartbreaking, and always beautiful story of raising her own feminist son with careful research, insightful interviews, and helpful advice. There were countless times in reading this book where I found myself reevaluating things I had told my own sons and setting new goals for things I would teach them in the future.

Combining the insight of memoir with sound advice, How to Raise a Feminist Son is a glorious map to a better future.