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Katja Lewina, HE’S UP FOR IT

MEN AND SEX.

Dumont - Non-Fiction - Hardcover - August 2020 - 220 pages

What's wrong with men? What do they really want? To find out, you need guys who speak plainly. And Katja Lewina, who talks to them about their masculinity, about their lust and their bedtime stories, their complexes and fears. What role do socialisation and social expectations play in this? And above all: what does it take to finally free men from the nasty clutches of patriarchy? Katja Lewina notes: Yes, being a man is not easy. But why chase after norms that put men under pressure and rob them of the freedom to be the person they really are? Women cannot fight for the end of patriarchy alone. That is why it is high time for this book, which shatters stereotypes and points out alternatives. Shame-free, approachable and humorous.

  • "Katja Lewina writes like the coolest best friend about a topic that sometimes more, sometimes less, determines our everyday life: Men." - ELLE ONLINE

  • "Katja Lewina entertainingly shows how role clichés have made us sexually miserable." BRIGITTE

  • “A wonderfully open, cliché-free book.” - KURIER

  • “For men, Lewina's book [...] can be a start to critically examine their own sexuality." - RTL NEWS

  • "Can a woman write a book about male sexuality? Yes, she can!" - SONNTAGSBLICK

  • “This book answers questions about things that I have always taken for granted, made me blush with self-recognition while reading it, and luckily, thanks to its light-footed yet insightful humour, does without any man/man puns. If this book had been published in 1983, Herbert Grönemeyer would have been able to answer his own shouted question about when a man is a man." - EL HOTZO

  • "With her humorous, shame-free and direct writing style, that makes you smile as well as reflect, Katja Lewina shatters stereotypes, points out alternatives and thus cuts gender clichés short." - BEZIEHUNGSWEISE MAGAZINE

  • "Witty as usual and equipped with hard-hitting facts". - ZEITJUNG

  • "An important, open book." - FREUNDIN

  • "The mode of writing is cleverly chosen because it overplays or softens the vulnerability that appears in the context of the sexual. One therefore reads, despite such serious topics, a truly amusing book." - BERLINER ZEITUNG

  • “Lewina manages [...] here too to penetrate deep layers of tabooed perceptions." - BUCHKULTUR

  • "Shame-free, approachable and humorous. [...] A book for men, but also for women!" - BÜCHERRUNDSCHAU