How do we raiise our boys to be men? And what do they lose in the process? Can a boy be contaminated by his mother's femininity? Has a mother failed if her son isn't macho? Is this timely and provocative book, Olga SIlverstein questions our traditional notions of manhood and calls for mothers and fathers alike to refuse to sanction the emotional shutdown we traditionally demand of boys, thus enabling sons to grow up not only strong men but "whole people."