Are the men you know obsessed with strange details? Do they sometimes seem to have less interest in you than they do in box scores and the history of the bolo tie? Do they become sexually aroused at unusual moments — perhaps while reading a history of the Battle of Trafalgar? Why are they fixated on cars and heroes and strippers and silence? Do they ever think about anything but sex? Are they ever faithful? And how can a man be so headstrong about not asking for directions and such a wimp about pain?
What I Meant to Say: The Private Lives of Men answers these and other questions about the male animal — whether you’re a woman seeking enlightenment, or a man looking for company. After all, there’s a lot to clear up. Thanks to the women’s movement and gay liberation, contemporary manhood has changed beyond recognition in the past forty years. At the same time, the age-old preoccupations of men — their unreachable loneliness, the unstoppable physicality of their bodies and desires — remain as bewildering and mysterious as ever.
Until now.
What I Meant to Say presents new and unpublished work from twenty-eight of Canada’s most thoughtful and articulate male writers, as they map the uncharted terrain of men’s private lives. At once touching and hilarious, insightful and provocative, What I Meant to Say is a personal tour of the secret male psyche, but this time it’s open to men and women alike.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 155.3/32
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9780887621901 9781459727403
- LCCN
- HQ1090
- LCCN Item number
- W4726 2005eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaBNVSL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xxiii, 324 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)thg00930179 (OCoLC)911205257 (CaOOCEL)446999
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Title proper/short title
- Private lives of men
- Transcribing agency
- CaBNVSL
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- CONTENTS 12
- INTRODUCTION 16
- BODY 26
- Boner and Nothingness 28
- Heroes 36
- Rock ’n’ Roll Hernia 52
- On Knowing Everything 62
- Look and See 72
- Why Boys Are Better Than Girls 86
- First and Foremost 98
- How Men Choose Women 108
- MIND 120
- Gratuitous Precision 122
- Confessions of a Commitmentphobe 130
- Surrender 142
- My Father’s Secret 154
- Just a Touch 174
- Joni’s Diary: A Fantasy 188
- Cars and Carol 196
- HOT-zzt-L 208
- Drunk and Distortedly 222
- Shop Like a Girl 230
- Zen and the Art of Home Renovations 240
- SOUL 248
- A Room of One’s Own 250
- On Wings Thatched of Moustache 258
- How Wichita, Kansas, Made Me a Man 274
- Goodbye to All That 286
- The Happiest Hour 296
- Ways of Seeing 300
- Motherhood: Three pensées and an interview with the author’s mother 310
- The Game of the Name 322
- Something About Fathers and Sons 334
- Me, the Unmarrieds and Uxor 340
