Rachel Giese
Rachel Giese is a journalist and a deputy national editor at The Globe and Mail. Formerly, she was the editorial director of Xtra Magazine. Giese’s book Boys: What it Means to Become a Man won the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing in 2018 and was named one of the Globe and Mail’s 100 Favourite Books the same year. Her feature writing and criticism has appeared in publications like The Walrus and The Globe and Mail. She is a frequent guest host on CBC Radio’s Day 6 and The Sunday Magazine. Giese lives in Toronto.
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Rachel Giese on her award-winning book “Boys”
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"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
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