OK, I have no idea how to run a bookclub, I'm not even on MN every day [heretic emoticon] cos of work and DS being so demanding delightful that I spend a lot of time on the floor getting climbed on.
BUT!
A few of us want to read books about how to raise a good feminist man (GFM)in this bad patriarchal world.
Personal intro: Hello! I'm fortunate in that I'm married to a GFM so DS has one male role model at home who wants to talk about feelings and flowers and why daddies do washing up - but bugger me if the rest of the world isn't out to tell my PFB that he's got to 'suck it up and be a man' every time he feels upset, and beer, porn, and Buying Things are all he needs to be happy. DS is only 9 months old, but I'm Not Having That Shit, and the pushback starts RIGHT NOW!
Talking this over with a likeminded mum, I was recommended "Raising Cain: Protecting The Emotional Life of Boys" - on another thead StewieGriffithsMum, who knows her onions, said it was terrible sexist bunk.
So - that said, until I've read more of it, I'm hesitant to recommend it for our first book club book. Should we start with Delusions of Gender, which I've still not read and might be hand to combat some evo-psych nonsense. Should we start with Pink Brain, Blue Brain? Does anyone know how to run a bookclub, anyway?
I hope this is a good idea and not doing the wrong thing in this thread. I've always wanted to join the bookclubs but not had the time to be online/finished books on time (I live in the USA which also complicates things, timing-wise). But I think that, if we think of reading and critiquing the patriarchy, we find it's actually a form of activism. It's certainly going to help me fight back when everyone tells me DS is "such a boy because of x, y or z'' when in fact those are just things babies are like!