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Resources and Links
Updated November 19, 2011 Understand
that this is a highly selective and largely personal
list. There are thousands of other resources out there.
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Gatherings, Retreats, and
Trainings NOTICE My
selection of gatherings or other men's events is a
personal choice. I've generally tried to list more
modest, non-commercial, non-profit enterprises with no
ties to larger organizations. With
any gathering or men's event, you would do well to find
out more via the organization's website (including any
links to sponsoring organizations) and by consulting
Google and Wikipedia. Ongoing
Trainings and Retreats Circles
of Air, Circles of Stone (http://www.questforvision.com/).
Sparrow Hart runs vision quests, men's programs,
adventures of the spirit. He is co-founder and current
leader of the Men's Wisdom Council. Sparrow's Mythic
Warrior program trains men in leadership in a
nine-weekend program over nine months. You can get more
details on Mythic Warrior or any of Sparrow's other
programs at his Web site or by e-mail: sparrow@together.net. The
Yearly
and Semiannual Gatherings The
Men's Wisdom Council: http://www.rowecenter.org/pages.php?name=MWC. The
Connecticut Men's Gathering: http://www.comega.org/ The
Massachusetts Men's Gathering: http://www.massmensgathering.org
Mainely
Men: http://www.mainelymen.org/
Maine
Coast Men: http://www.mainecoastmen.net/ The
Granite Men's Gathering ( The
Rhode Island Men's Gathering: http://rhodeislandmensgathering.org/ Minnesota
Men's Conference: http://hiddenwine.com/MMC/index.html
Great
Mother and New Father Conference: http://greatmotherconference.com/ California
Men's Gathering: http://www.thecmg.org/ Chesapeake
Men's Gathering, Darlington, MD: http://www.menswork.org/ General:
Portals and Publications Men's Studies Press. A
relatively new publisher of journals and books on
men's studies. Well worth a look. One Web site seems to stand
out as a gateway, or portal, to access not only a rich
amount of its own material but links to many, many other
sites of interest to men (including Menletter): The Men's Center (http://themenscenter.com/).
The coverage is astounding. Menstuff is
a massive, mostly noncommercial site with many noted
authors. They get something like 100,000 visitors a day
and have been around for over a decade. Mensissues -
an extensively indexed and categorized listing of
articles on men's issues, drawn from Menstuff.org. See also the sites for men's groups, below under Society and Community. Sweat lodges http://www.welcomehome.org/rob/sweat/sweat.html
Breathwork http://www.grof-holotropic-breathwork.net/, http://www.eupsychia.com/IB.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holotropic_Breathwork
Burning Man The
Truth about Burning Man - One guy's experience http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jay-michaelson/the-truth-about-burning-m_b_279464.html General
sites devoted to men's health The
first two sites seem especially good. Men's
Health ( http://menshealth.com/
) is the Web presence of the monthly print magazine. On
the surface, it's irreverent and raunchy, but it never
slides into pornography. The advice on sex, health,
exercise, and nutrition is usually well-thought-out and
well-researched. The
Men's Health Network ( http://www.menshealthnetwork.org/
) is aimed at both physicians and the general (male)
public. It includes an offer for an e-mail newsletter
that is always informative. Men's
Health Issues - A small site dedicated to heart disease
and prostate problems. Very good coverage for its size,
with some useful links. http://www.manssage.com/thesaurus/Mens-Health-Issues.html
The
Male Health Center - Fairly comprehensive information
source, sponsored in part by Amazon.com. http://www.malehealthcenter.com/
Medline
Plus, a site of the National Institutes of Health (US),
has a "Men's Health Topics" section. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/menshealth.html
Prostate
cancer detection and treatment A
resource site for prostate cancer. http://www.healthopedia.com/prostate-cancer/ What
To Do If Prostate Cancer Strikes: A Helpbook for Patients. A brief
summary of prostate cancer treatments. http://www.cancerresearch.org/prostatebook.html
PSA Rising Blog. A Weblog
devoted to prostate cancer, with categorized entries. http://www.psa-rising.com/blog/
Zero
Cancer. Articles and statistics; advice. Prostate Cancer Foundation.
Extensive site with on-line booklets, an e-mail
newsletter, and so on. You can get blue wrist bands for
a small donation. http://www.prostatecancerfoundation.org/
Hormone/vaccine treatment
for recurrent prostate cancer http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/jul2005/nci-25.htm
The latest on surgery versus
watchful waiting. http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/352/19/1977 Prostate Cancer resource
from the National Institutes of Health http://www.nci.nih.gov/cancerinfo/types/prostate/ Dangers of watchful waiting
in prostate cancer - these links are very important.
Supposedly slow-growing cancers become aggressive after
10 to 15 years. http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/291/22/2713
Prostate
cancer - do-it-yourself prevention http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,999787,00.html Prostate Cancer Calculator
figures your chances based on your PSA and stage. http://www.prostatecalculator.org/ Everyday chemicals contain endocrine
disruptors leading to birth defects. One in 125 boys is
born with a urethral defect called Hypospadias.
Link is to a summary and a video presentation given at
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. http://www.jhsph.edu/clf/Features/theo.html "Home Is Where the Heat Is" -
article in Best
Life: "Deeper love! Louder moans! Wilder romps
in all her rooms! Hotter monogamy is simply a matter
of mind over monotony." Best Life is
Men's Health
for the - uh - more mature male. http://bestlifeonline.com/wheretheheatis/index.html Let's Talk About Sex. An
extensive categorized and alphabetical listing of men's
sex concerns. Male biological clock? Older
men may have lowered fertility and may be more likely to
father children with autism or schizophrenia. Premature
ejaculation - a sex therapist's perspective. Advocates a
combination of pharmaceuticals and therapy. http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1743-6109.2006.00238.x Viagra
use among men having sex with men: increased risky
behavior http://www.amjmed.com/article/PIIS0002934305000860/fulltext
Infertility
becoming a male problem http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4118976.stm
Do
Women Really Want a Male Birth Control Pill? Glenn Sacks's opinion. http://www.glennsacks.com/do_women_really.htm
Best
Life magazine's New Year's resolutions for men. Unusual
list of suggestions and resources; worth checking out
anytime. Exercise
lowers risk of death by 50 to 70%; results are similar
for Caucasians and African Americans (for which
information was previously lacking). Testicular
Cancer Awareness Week. General information about
detection and treatment of testicular cancer. You can
sign up for a monthly e-mail reminder for doing a self-examination. Breast
cancer self-exam reminder for men, especially over-60
and overweight. Prostate Online. An excellent source for
information on prostate cancer http://www.prostate-online.org/ Testicular
cancer awareness site http://www.keepyoureyeontheball.org/
Dairy
and its role in preventing diabetes in men. http://www.medpagetoday.com/tbindex.cfm?tbid=1007&topicid=13 Domestic
violence and music therapy. Examines the power of using popular
music, something people already listen to, as a way for
people to express their feelings. Includes examples
of therapeutic messages in popular music as well as
original music by Freudian Slip, therapeutic rock band. http://www.enterthefreudianslip.com/music_therapy_and_domestic_violence.htm Gender
differences in benefits of alcohol consumption Fatherstuff. An extensive listing of links and references about fathers and fathering. http://menstuff.org/fatherstuff/current.html or http://fatherstuff.org.
Includes Kidstuff,
too - for fathers and issues directly relating to
children. Women
in Racing. For fathers and daughters who might be
interested in competing in male-dominated sports. Lists
over 1,450 women who race or have raced against men. Fathers
and Families site. From the mission statement: "Fathers
and Families protects the
child's right to the love and care of both parents. We
seek shared parenting for the children of divorced and
never-married parents, with equal rights and
responsibilities for fathers and mothers." http://www.fathersandfamilies.org/site/index.php Just for Dads. A site
dedicated to fathers and fathering. Seems to have gone
inactive. Fatherhood
(http://fatherhood.about.com/)
is a big site, updated frequently. It's
part of the Parenting & Family pages of a very large
general-information site called About.com. The
A
Man's Feelings: Finding Closure After Divorce by Michael Eads. Deals with
emotional upheaval and rebuilding of self. Link is to
Eads's website with excerpts from the book and ordering
information. Dads Voices:
Still a Dad (http://www.proactive-coach.com/divorce/fathers) has
links to resources and support for divorced dads,
including support and advice. The second edition of the
book Still a Dad
has just been published. Leving's Divorce
Magazine. On-line resource for legal, parenting,
lifestyle matters. It goes beyond just the legal and
child visitation issues to address the whole (divorced)
man. http://www.levingsdivorcemagazine.com/
Dads http://www.dadsamerica.org/da.html
American
Coalition for Fathers and Children. An advocate of
shared parenting. Fathers4Justice.
A new rights organization for justice in family law.
Chapters in the http://www.fathers-4-justice.org/
Many
of the other men's sites have links to divorce issues. Anti
Misandry - A very large site
dedicated to "curing feminist indoctrination." Blogs,
chats, resources, and much more. A bit over the top
sometimes but seems to back up its claims with checkable
facts. Feminist
Lies Exposed - a sub-site for Anti Misandry
(above). Offers counter-evidence for feminist claims
about equal pay, domestic violence, media bias, etc.
Read and judge with care; most of it seems solid. http://tinyurl.com/Antimisandry-Fem-Lies
A Conscientious Objector in
the Gender War. Wendy McElroy's 2003 essay is
provocative and concludes: "The only way out of the
quagmire is to abandon convoluted social theory and
return to common sense." A British take on the gender
wars as depicted in advertising. http://www.weeklygripe.co.uk/a260.asp
"Dissing"
men: the new gender war. An Australian article on
gender wars in the media. Based on a PhD thesis. http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=4907 Angry Harry has a few things
to say about what he calls a "permanent" gender war
and concludes that equality between men and women is
not achievable. http://www.angryharry.com/esAPermanentGenderWar.htm
World's most dangerous jobs.
Guess what - they're the jobs men do. Latest (2008)
stats. Differences
in Frequency of Violence and Reported Injury Between
Reciprocal and Nonreciprocal Intimate Partner Violence.
A study conducted by the Center for Disease Control and
Prevention. http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/short/AJPH.2005.079020v1
Relationstuff. An extensively indexed and
categorized listing of links to articles on men's
relationships. Violence
against men - A selection of important
sites: References
Examining Assaults by Women on Their Spouses or Male
Partners: An
Annotated Bibliography - From the site summary: "This
bibliography examines 256 scholarly investigations: 201
empirical studies and 55 reviews and/or analyses, which
demonstrate that women are as physically aggressive, or
more aggressive, than men in their relationships with
their spouses or male partners. The aggregate sample
size in the reviewed studies exceeds 253,500." From the
Department of Psychology, http://www.csulb.edu/~mfiebert/assault.htm Battered Men, a reprint of an
article in Pacific
Sun: http://www.menstuff.org/issues/byissue/batteredmen.html Battered Men (many articles,
links, and resources): Equal Justice Foundation: http://www.ejfi.org/DV/dv-6.htm Male Victims of Domestic Abuse: http://www.pitt.edu/~frieze/maleabuse.htm S.A.F.E (Stop Abuse for
Everyone): Male Abuse, a site by Women
Against Domestic Violence: http://www.wadv.org/maleabuse.htm Everyman.
From the Web site: "We believe our society includes
entrenched, often unconscious sexism against both
genders, but that only the sexism against women has so
far been generally recognized. Everyman seeks to bring
balance through authentic analysis, disclosure and
insight." The site includes a forum and articles. Back
issues of the print version, Everyman Journal
(which ended in 2005), can be ordered. The site is based
in Man-o-pause,
a blog site by Nicolette Beard dedicated to "Providing
midlife men a place to breathe." Interesting posts and
useful links to other sites. The main panel contains the
latest blogs; scroll down to "Categories" in the right
column to see how Beard organizes her topics. Male
Junction at 3SmartCubes. 3SmartCubes is a site of IQ and
personality tests. The Male Junction section is devoted
to tests for and about men. The tests are fun and often
insightful - what kind of car matches your personality,
how well you understand women, etc. http://www.3smartcubes.com/pages/malejunction.asp
Angry Harry. An edgy site from the National
Coalition of Free Men. " Battered
men - myths and facts http://www.batteredmen.com/batfact.htm Male
victims of domestic abuse http://www.noexcuse4abuse.org/ A lovely essay on sex and
gender http://www.city-journal.org/html/9_4_a3.html A Web
site from a New Jersey group http://men-to-men.themenscenter.com/ A very good Australian men's
site. http://members.ozemail.com.au/~irgeo/amp.htm A
mentoring site The
Mentoring Resources site (http://www.mentors.ca/mentor.html)
appears to be extensive. Many
of us "grew up" in the men's movement at the feet of
Robert Bly, James Hillman, Michael Meade, and others.
Many of them have their own Web sites or Web site
about them. Robert
Bly: Poet, translator, leader of men's groups, maybe the
founder of all modern men's work. http://www.robertbly.com/ James
Hillman: Jungian psychologist who rebelled against the
system. He died in 2011 at 85. No site of his own, but
this has some useful information: http://mythosandlogos.com/Hillman.html Michael
Meade: Mythologist and tireless worker with youth.
Michael runs an organization called Mosaic Voices: http://www.mosaicvoices.org/.
Also see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_J._Meade Sam
Keen: One of the early voices, beginning with his
classic, Fire in the Belly. http://www.samkeen.com/ Sparrow
Hart: Sparrow's Circles of Air, Circles of Stone (http://www.questforvision.com/)
runs vision quests, men's programs, adventures of the
spirit. He is co-founder and current leader of the Men's
Wisdom Council. Sparrow's Mythic Warrior program trains
men in leadership in a nine-weekend program over nine
months. You can get more details on Mythic Warrior or
any of Sparrow's other programs at his Web site or by
e-mail: sparrow@together.net. John
Dore: John was a co-founder of the Men's Wisdom Council
and has "retired" to Arizona, continuing his work in
spiritual retreats, psychological intensives, guided
self-healing, breathwork,
emotional release work, and so on: http://www.johndore.com/. Warren
Farrell: Author of several books on men and society,
including "The Myth of Male Power" and "Women Can't Hear
What Men Don't Say." His latest book is "Why Men Earn
More," debunking many myths about pay inequities. http://warrenfarrell.com/
An interview with Farrell from 1997: http://www.menweb.org/svofarre.htm Allan
Chinen: Interview with Allan
Chinen ("Beyond the Hero"): http://www.menweb.org/chineniv.htm Rich
Zubaty: Sort of an edgier
version of Warren Farrell. His "What Men Know that Women
Don't" will anger, irritate, and inspire you. Excerpt on
Web site; book is worth getting. http://happyfool.therudeguy.com/
Many
men are discovering or rediscovering a spirituality
that brings meaning to their lives and sometimes to
the religions they may practice. Don
Miguel Ruiz: His book "The Four Agreements" encapsulates
the Toltec teachings begun by Carlos Castaneda and makes
them applicable to daily life. http://www.miguelruiz.com/ Brad
Warner: "Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies, and
the Truth About Reality." Acerbic, potty-mouthed, and
thoroughly readable account of an Home
Page: http://homepage.mac.com/doubtboy/
Blog:
http://hardcorezen.blogspot.com/
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