Virginia Prince

BOOK REVIEWS

This issue I have three books to call to your attention. This is not going to be a book review in the general sense of the term even though it is titled that way. I haven't time to read with the idea of reviewing nor to write in depth about each. However, I think all three books are important so a few words about each will be in order and if those words stir your stumps to get and read one or all of them it will be sufficient.

(1) The Hazards of Being Male by Herb Goldberg, Ph.D. Nash Publish- ing, New York, 1976.

Dr. Goldberg is professor of psychology at California State Univer- sity, Los Angeles. I became acquainted with him and the book through attending a seminar on it that he held at the University. It was a very interesting experience. It became more so when, at an intermission I went up and introduced myself and spoke momentarily about myself. He knew of me through others and asked me later to come down and speak to the audience which I did for about twenty minutes. What I had to say about my own liberation from the restric- tions of masculinity went over quite well with the audience after what he had said.

This should not be taken to imply that the book has anything to do with cross dressing, it doesn't, but it does survey the problems facing men in our culture very completely and in depth. Naturally it is the release from the pressure of some of the problems which leads all FPs to speak about the relaxation and comfort they feel when in their femme role. Most men are aware of the expectations of masculinity or else they wouldn't be able to live up to them, but few men have ever

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