How to Raise a Feminist Son, Sonora Jha
How to Raise a Feminist Son, Sonora Jha
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How to Raise a Feminist Son
Motherhood, Masculinity, and the Making of My Family

Author: Sonora Jha

Narrator: Sonora Jha

Unabridged: 9 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/06/2021

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

A compelling story that will resonate with feminists who hope to change the world, one kind boy at a time

This book is a true love letter, not only to Jha's own son but also to all of our sons and to the parents--especially mothers--who raise them.”
—Ijeoma Oluo, author of So You Want to Talk About Race and Mediocre

A beautifully written and deeply personal story of struggling, failing, and eventually succeeding at raising a feminist son, this empowering book offers much-needed insight and actionable advice. From teaching consent to counteracting problematic messages from the media, well-meaning family, and the culture at large, we have big work to do when it comes to our boys. 

Informed by the author's work as a professor of journalism specializing in social justice movements and social media, as well as by conversations with psychologists, experts, and other parents and boys, this book follows one mother's journey to raise a feminist son as a single immigrant woman of color in America. Through stories from her own life and wide-ranging research, Sonora Jha shows us all how to be better feminists and better teachers of the next generation of men in this electrifying tour de force.

* This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF of the Resources section of the book. 

"A beautiful hybrid of memoir, manifesto, instruction manual, and rumination on the power of story and possibilities of family."
—Rebecca Solnit, author of The Mother of All Questions

About The Author

SONORA JHA, PhD, is an essayist, novelist, researcher, and professor of journalism at Seattle University. She is the author of the novel Foreign, and her op-eds and essays have appeared in the New York Times, the Seattle Times, The Establishment, DAME, and in several anthologies. She grew up in Mumbai and has been chief of metropolitan bureau for the Times of India and contributing editor for East magazine in Singapore. She teaches fiction and essay writing for Hugo House, Hedgebrook Writers' Retreat, and Seattle Public Library. She is an alumna and board member of Hedgebrook Writers' Retreat, and has served on the jury for awards for Artist Trust, Hedgebrook, and Hugo House.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jessica

If you're like me, you may be a bit anxious about raising a boy in modern society. I have two boys of my own and I want to raise them to be good humans. With the #metoo movement, rape culture, and more, what does it take to raise a boy into a good man? How does one parent a child to make him a femin......more

Goodreads review by Rae | The Finer Things Club CA

In “How to Raise a Feminist Son,” Sonora Jha weaves recollections from various stages of her life with discussions about teaching and modeling gender equality and equity when parenting. My own son was a toddler when the #MeToo movement gained steam, so for the last several years I’ve thought about ho......more

Goodreads review by Jeida K.

HOW TO RAISE A FEMINIST SON is part memoir, part manifesto that provides insight, research, and practical advice on resisting patriarchal parenting. Sonora Jha uses her lived experiences growing up in Mumbai and later living as a single mother in America to frame the necessity of raising feminist so......more

Goodreads review by Brittany

I love a good parenting book, but I often approach them with a bit of apprehension that all I’ll gain is how much I’m doing wrong. Luckily, this book excelled at providing practical advice and action steps and glimmers of hope that I am raising my boys in a way that is forward-thinking and progressi......more

Quotes

“In How to Raise a Feminist Son, Jha weaves her own fascinating, sometimes heartbreaking, and always beautiful story of raising her own feminist son with careful research, insightful interviews, and helpful advice. There were countless times in reading this book where I found myself reevaluating things I had told my own sons and setting new goals for things I would teach them in the future. True love sees you for who you are, and true love holds you to account when you fall short of who you can be, because true love knows what you are capable of. This book is a true love letter, not only to Jha's own son but also to all of our sons and to the parents--especially mothers--who raise them.”
—Ijeoma Oluo, author of So You Want to Talk About Race and Mediocre
 
“You can’t punish your way to a more feminist world, I’ve long believed; you have to create, encourage, invent that world, especially in how you raise kids, but that’s only one reason Sonora Jha’s book is exhilarating and inspiring. It’s a beautiful hybrid of memoir, manifesto, instruction manual, and rumination on the power of story and possibilities of family. I can’t wait to put it in the hands of everyone raising kids or thinking about how we do it and how it could be different.” 
—Rebecca Solnit, author of The Mother of All Questions
 
“Essential reading for any parent, loved one, or teacher seeking to raise feminist boys in these times. A strong case for how teaching our boys to show vulnerability, empathy, and remorse can be the path to freedom. Sonora Jha asks, ‘Can boys be feminists?’ The answer is a resounding YES.”
—V (formerly Eve Ensler), author of The Vagina Monologues and The Apology
 
“Combining the insight of memoir with sound advice, How to Raise a Feminist Son is a glorious map to a better future.”
—Mira Jacob, author of Good Talk
  
"Sonora Jha takes on the hardest questions and the most-fraught conversations with nuance and grace. Here, when addressing the deepest anxieties of parents raising boys committed to a fair and just society, her insights are invaluable." 
—Soraya Chemaly, author of Rage Becomes Her
 
“We need to grow better men. In this fierce, elegant, necessary book, Sonora Jha tells us how she did just that. Weaving together the personal and the political, Jha fearlessly examines our current moment and how it affects the young men among us. How to Raise A Feminist Son scorches, illuminates, and above all challenges us to do better.”
—Claire Dederer, author of Love and Trouble and Poser

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