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Record Nr.

UNINA9910158626603321

Autore

O'Morain Padraig

Titolo

That's Men : The best of the 'That's Men' column from the Irish Times

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Dublin, : Veritas Publications Ltd, 2008

ISBN

1-84730-739-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (136 p.)

Disciplina

305.31

Soggetti

Men - Psychology

Gender & Ethnic Studies

Social Sciences

Gender Studies & Sexuality

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Copyright Page; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction; We need to talk; All the money but none of the fun; Mirror, mirror on the wall; Where is the girl in the mini-skirt now?; If you are contemplating suicide; Post-natal depression affects men too; Who's complaining?; Now or later - how men and women differ over housework; Death of a father - an emotional earthquake; Paying the price for the lack of an emotional education; Snorers and sheet-stealers; Separate beds more fun?; She's right, you're not the one she married - but neither is she; Mammy's boy; Man in doghouse

In the doghouse againAre you a workplace bully?; Protecting your mental health against workplace bullies; Just a brain thing; Anger, twits and bullies; Social contact keeps us healthy;  isolation makes us sick; Sexual abuse - making children blame themselves; The impostor in the mirror; Drinking to dull the pain; From the two of us to mammy and daddy; Facing the inevitable - or not; Self-esteem at work and at home; If you want a plump woman, marry her; What's in a gesture?; How grief kills relationships; Ditching Mr Self-Sufficient; The emotional pain of male infertility; Sauce for the goose?

Why absent dads matterHappy Christmas? Speak for yourself!; How fathers can help the children when mothers are depressed; Men fighting domestic violence; Getting dumped; I just love your body fat!;



Coming to terms with being gay - not so easy; Men in cardigans - a stitch too far?; Forever young and irritating; The Irish mammy as endangered species; Mr Peg and other euphemisms; Platonic relationships - passion without sex; The hidden crime of male rape; The pain of shyness; The slave trade still alive in Europe; Charles Atlas, from weakling to world's best-developed man