| Guyland | |
| Author: | Michael Kimmel |
| Subject: | Sociology |
| Genre: | Non-fiction |
| Publisher: | Harper |
| Release Date: | 2008 |
| Media Type: | Print (hardcover and paperback) |
| Pages: | 356 |
| Isbn: | 978-0-06-083134-9 |
Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men is a book by Michael Kimmel, published in 2008. The book covers the culture for young men transitioning from adolescence to adulthood.[1]
Kimmel interviewed 400 men aged 16 to 26 and identified a trend whereby young men increasingly delay adulthood.[2] [3] Kimmel notes that, in 1960, almost 70% of American men had by the age of 30 left home, completed their educations, found a partner and started work. By comparison, today less than a third of men reach these milestones before their thirties. Kimmel writes that young men are reluctant to grow up because they "see grown-up life as such a loss".[4] In order to avoid the responsibilities of adulthood, young men retreat into a homosocial world Kimmel terms "Guyland", a social space and a stage of life where "guys gather to be guys with each other, unhassled by the demands of parents, girlfriends, jobs, kids, and the other nuisances of adult life".[1] Young white men, in particular, feel a sense of "thwarted entitlement", believing that women and minorities have taken away traditionally white male jobs and positions.[5] [2]