{"id":919,"date":"1992-07-07T20:29:08","date_gmt":"1992-07-08T01:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/?p=919"},"modified":"2012-07-07T20:34:33","modified_gmt":"2012-07-08T01:34:33","slug":"journey-to-brotherhood-awakening-healing-and-connecting-mens-hearts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/journey-to-brotherhood-awakening-healing-and-connecting-mens-hearts\/","title":{"rendered":"Journey to Brotherhood; Awakening, Healing and Connecting Men’s Hearts"},"content":{"rendered":"

The GLBTRT has been reviewing books and movies in its newsletter since the early 1990s. Trace the evolution of queer publishing through these historic reviews. This review was originally\u00a0published in\u00a0Vol. 4, No. 2, Summer 1992<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Cover<\/a>Journey to Brotherhood; Awakening, Healing and Connecting Men’s Hearts. By Frank Cardelle. Gardner Press, 1990. Paper, $15.95. (ISBN 0-89876-153-0)<\/a><\/p>\n

The inability or unwillingness of men to articulate\u00a0emotional expression, and the efforts of writers to define\u00a0and respond to these problems has spawned a literary\u00a0cottage industry over the last several years. The main\u00a0figures in the masculinity movement, Robert Bly and Sam\u00a0Keen, struggle with the male emotional persona: Bly\u00a0couches his exploration of father\/son synergy in the\u00a0darker interpretations of the fairy tale Iron John; Sam\u00a0Keen’s Fire in the Belly appeals to the primal tribal core he\u00a0feels lies dormant and untapped. in men. The movement\u00a0toward the rediscovery of masculinity, and the ability of\u00a0men to communicate within that masculine framework.<\/p>\n

Frank Cardelle also maps this territory, with\u00a0middling results. He provides an overview of man’s\u00a0inability to express the array of human emotion, what\u00a0occurred historically and culturally that reinforces this\u00a0handicap, and what steps each man can take to facilitate\u00a0change. He asserts that it is quite possible that men can be\u00a0emotional and sensitive with no loss to masculinity or\u00a0emotional stability, and uses illustrations of anecdotal case\u00a0histories gleaned from his work as men’s counselor, as\u00a0well as moments from his own personal life.<\/p>\n

Some of this will come as lightning sharp\u00a0revelation to some readers, and for them this books should\u00a0prove helpful. It does not speak to the gay audience –\u00a0indeed, Cardelle goes to lengths to assure the reader that\u00a0the embracing of a more sensitive self in no way demeans\u00a0the masculinity or heterosexuality of the reader.<\/p>\n

Many gay readers, after overcoming this small bit\u00a0of homophobia, will discover that there is little that they\u00a0did not know, had they but considered the issues. Indeed,\u00a0some of the revelatory material herein should be readily\u00a0apparent to all but the most obtusely macho of males.\u00a0Generally speaking, gay men are much inclined toward self-examination and self-appraisal, and many will have worked through the consideration of sensitivity and male roles. However, for those men who need to learn and not fear self-expression and legitimate emotional response, Cardelle’s book may prove helpful.<\/p>\n

Reviewed by Jim McPeak<\/strong>
\nLepper Public Library
\nLisbon, OH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The GLBTRT has been reviewing books and movies in its newsletter since the early 1990s. Trace the evolution of queer publishing through these historic reviews. This review was originally\u00a0published in\u00a0Vol. 4, No. 2, Summer 1992. Journey to Brotherhood; Awakening, Healing and Connecting Men’s Hearts. By Frank Cardelle. Gardner Press, 1990. Paper, $15.95. (ISBN 0-89876-153-0) The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1164,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,46,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}