Homework for Him
The books to share with the men in your life this Father’s Day
Father’s Day is coming, which means it’s time to celebrate the men in our lives by giving them something they didn’t know they needed: a reading list.
Look, we love them. We really do. But if the men in your life are anything like the men in mine, there are certain... gaps. In knowledge, in context, and in the basic understanding of what it has meant, historically and personally, to move through the world in a female body.
The good news: there’s a book for that. Several, actually.
So this Father’s Day, skip the grill accessories, the socks and the pocket knife – and instead hand them one of these. Then pour yourself a glass of something good, and let literature do the heavy lifting.
Six books to share with the men in your life this Father’s Day:
Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit. Short, readable, and oh so on the nose.
Hunger, Roxane Gay. Visceral and unflinching on body, desire, and what women learn to carry.
Know My Name, Chanel Miller. For the men who thought they understood #MeToo. They didn’t.
All Fours, Miranda July. Weird, brilliant, and will start a conversation. Possibly an argument. Worth it either way.
Belabored, Lyz Lenz. For anyone who has ever been pregnant and thought: why does everyone keep lying to me about this?
Down Girl, Kate Manne. Hand this to the man who says he doesn’t see misogyny. He’ll see it by chapter two.
In community,
Ruthie
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