Talking Tough: The Fight for Masculinity

While feminism had re-defined expectations for a growing generation of women, and these in turn changed their expectations of their relationships with men, Carol Lee wondered what had happened to boys. Who - and what - was shaping their ideas of themselves? Travelling in Europe and America, she interviewed boys and young men between the ages of 15-25 about their ideas of masculinity and their experiences of becoming a man in a changing world.  

Book Author

Born in Carmarthenshire, South Wales, Carol spent much of her teenage life in Tanzania before beginning a career in journalism on the South Wales Echo in Cardiff.She has been a reporter for the BBC, a columnist on the Daily Mail and a contributor to The Observer, The Guardian, The Independent, The Times, The Sunday Times and The Evening Standard. She has taken part in numerous radio and tv programmes.In a chequered childhood, often not going to school at all, and changing, she thinks, around 18 times, journalism was her education.Leaving full-time journalism in order to write books and to t...
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Book Reviews

• The Bookseller
  "Carol Lee, a writer who seems to possess non pareil skills at finessing the most recalcitrant interviewees, has excelled with Talking Tough, a remarkably compelling account of how young men perceive their masculinity."
• David Sexton, The Sunday Telegraph
  "It is books by women, such as Talking Tough by Carol Lee, that offer the most sympathetic account of 'the fight for masculinity.'"