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From teaching consent to counteracting problematic messages from the media, well-meaning family, and the culture at large, we have big work to do when it comes to our boys. This empowering book offers much-needed insight and actionable advice. It's also a beautifully written and deeply personal story of struggling, failing, and eventually succeeding at raising a feminist son. Informed by the author's work as a professor of journalism specializing in social justice movements and social media, as well as by conversations with psychologists, experts, and other parents and boys, this book follows one mother's journey to raise a feminist son as a single immigrant woman of color in America. Through stories from her own life and wide-ranging research, Sonora Jha shows us all how to be better feminists and better teachers of the next generation of men in this electrifying tour de force.
About the Author
Sonora Jha, Ph.D., is a novelist, essayist, researcher, and a Professor of Journalism at Seattle University. She is the author of the novel "Foreign." She was born in India, where she had a career as a journalist in Mumbai and Bangalore before moving to Singapore and then to the United States to earn a Ph.D. in Political Communication. Dr. Jha's academic research on the emerging intersections of the press, politics, and the Internet has been published in top-tier national and international scholarly journals. Her debut novel, Foreign, is based on true stories of farmers' suicides in contemporary India. Foreign was published by Random House India in 2013 and grew out of her work as a journalist, an academic, and a creative writer. It was a finalist for The Hindu Prize for Literary Fiction and the Shakti Bhatt First Book Award. It was long-listed for the DSC Prize for South Asian literature.Sonora's new book is How to Raise a Feminist Son: Motherhood, Masculinity, and the Making of My Family, (Sasquatch Books, April 2021) .
