An Expatriate Discovers More than One Way of Saying "Ah! Tuscany"The author and his wife buy an apartment in Tuscany, furnish it and take up residence there for six months each year. Over subsequent years of assimilation into Tuscan life he records many experiences and observations that are both hilarious and maddeningly frustrating - tales of bureaucracy gone mad, a self-absorbed merciless government in league with uncaring big-business and utilities, and stories of life around his condominium and home town of San Gimignano. They bring to light both positive and negative aspects of Tuscan living that the casual tourist never experiences. From these observations he develops a theory on the factors that contribute to the special Tuscan character. His story supports the thesis that multiple facets of Tuscan life together form a whole that is fuller, more human and more interesting than the beautiful side that he first knew as a tourist.

Ah! Tuscany: The Enlightenment of an Expatriate

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McPherson, Don

Europe

Outskirts Pr

You Throw Like a Girl: The Blind Spot of Masculinity

"A crucial read for anyone interested in learning more about how sports culture informs limited definitions of masculinity, and how such definitions are destructive for boys and men, and dangerous to girls and women. Don McPherson, a former NFL and college quarterback, urges readers to think critically about the unfair expectations society sets based on gender, and how to upend them." --The Undefeated, one of The Undefeated's Can't Miss Books of 2019
"You Throw Like a Girl: The Blind Spot of Masculinity by former NFL quarterback Don McPherson is an examination of society's traditional definition of masculinity and how this narrow focus creates blind spots that hinder the healthy development of men. Using examples from his own life, McPherson dissects the strict beliefs and unspoken rules that define our views of manhood, the behaviors of masculinity we instill in growing boys, and how the resulting lack of emotional wholeness can lead to violence against women. He passionately advocates against the dangers of viewing such violence as strictly a 'women's issue.' Instead, he argues that the toxicity of the traditional views of masculinity are ultimately culpable." --The Advocate, included in The Best Queer(ish) Nonfiction Tomes We Read in 2019
"McPherson does not malign masculinity. Moreover, he does not seed guilt and shame unto boys. Thankfully, there is no blind hagiography of women and wanton vilification of men. Masculinity is natural, healthy, and undeniable...Soundly and clearly articulated, McPherson has emerged as a measured voice in an oftentimes kinetic and unsettling narrative...Highly recommended." --Jamaica Gleaner
"The Central New York community knows Don McPherson as the Hall-Of-Fame quarterback who led the 1987 SU football team to an undefeated season. But for the past 27 years, he's also been working on publishing a book that tackles the tough issue of how boys are traditionally raised with macho stereotypes that impacts sexual and domestic violence." --Bridge Street (WYSR 9, Syracuse, NY)
"Former SU Quarterback Don McPherson isn't fighting for yards or touchdowns, he's in the fight to reduce violence against women. He just published a book, You Throw Like a Girl: The Blind Spot of Masculinity." --WAER (Syracuse University 88.3 FM, Syracuse, NY)
"[McPherson] is also out with a new book entitled You Throw Like a Girl: The Blind Spot of Masculinity. In it, McPherson examines his own life experiences and how they impacted his perception of what it was to be a man." --CNY Central (NBC3 Syracuse, NY)
"After playing professional football for seven years, McPherson has spent the majority of his life advocating for social justice, using his influence to discuss issues like violence against women and bullying." --Syracuse Sports Podcast with Brent Axe
In You Throw Like a Girl, former Syracuse University quarterback and NFL veteran Don McPherson examines how the narrow definition of masculinity adversely impacts women and creates many "blind spots" that hinder the healthy development of men. Dissecting the strict set of beliefs and behaviors that underpin our understanding of masculinity, he contends that we don't raise boys to be men, we raise them not to be women.
Using examples from his own life, including his storied football career, McPherson passionately argues that viewing violence against women as a "women's issue" not just ignores men's culpability but conflates the toxicity of men's violence with being male. In You Throw Like a Girl, McPherson leads us beyond the blind spots and toward solutions, analyzing how we can engage men in a sustained dialogue, with a new set of terms that are aspirational and more accurately representative of the emotional wholeness of men.

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