Manhood

An action plan for changing men's lives

Steve Biddulph

Most men don't have a life. So begins the most powerful, practical and honest book ever to be written about men and boys. Not about our problems - but about how we can find the joy and energy of being in a male body with a man's mind and spirit - about men's liberation.

Steve Biddulph, author of Raising Boys and the million-seller The Secret of Happy Children, writes about the turning point that men have reached - as reflected in films like The Full Monty. He gives practical personal answers to how things can be different from the bedroom to the workplace. He tells powerful stories about healing the rift between fathers and sons. About friendship. How women and men can get along in dynamic harmonious ways. How boys can be raised to be healthy men.

Manhood has had a profound emotional impact on tens of thousands of readers worldwide, and has been passed from son to father, friend to friend, husband to wife, with the simple message 'you must read this!'

Read Bernard Zuel's review of Manhood, published in the Sydney Morning Herald on 6th May 1994

Read letters from readers of Manhood

Quotes about Manhood

'Steve Biddulph should be in the UK what he is in Australia, the household name in the business of raising boys and being a man.'

Dorothy Rowe, psychologist and writer.

'Steve Biddulph is to men in the '90s what Germaine Greer was to women in the 70's. His call for less shame about male sexuality is merely one aspect of his latest groundbreaking book.'

Bernard Zuel, Sydney Morning Herald

'Nearly every man will find something in this book to shift his thinking, and perhaps his life. And nearly every woman will applaud the change.'

Richard Glover, Sydney Morning Herald

'His book is a good mix - moving stories from men's lives, plus all sort of practical ideas about changing men. At last some solutions ...'

Bettina Arndt, The Australian