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Rachel Giese

Rachel Giese is an award-winning journalist and author. Her bestselling book Boys: What It Means to Become a Man won the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing and was named one of the Globe and Mail’s 100 Favourite Books of the year. Formerly the editorial director of Xtra Magazine, Giese is currently the culture and life editor at The Globe and Mail. She lives in Toronto. 

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Rachel Giese on her award-winning book “Boys”

Award History

2018 - Winner

Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing

for

Boys: What it Means to Become a Man

Jury Citation

"Achieving gender equity is one of great social, political, and economic challenges of our time. Harmful stereotypes and assumptions about girls and women are being shattered daily. But what is the place of boys and men in the post #MeToo world? With a skillful mix of original reporting, scholarly research, and personal anecdotes, Rachel Giese presents a deeply felt examination of the forces that shape how boys see themselves and how we see them. No one, from parents to policy-makers, can read Boys without rethinking their notion of manliness, masculinity, and how we raise young men." — 2018 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing Jury (André Picard, Angela Sterritt, and Chris Turner)

Program History

2020 - Selector

Rising Stars

Selection

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