161: New masculinites for older boys with Dr. Michael Kehler & Caroline Brunet

<span style="font-weight: 400">We've covered a number of episodes in the past that feed into this one, including </span><a href="https://www.yourparentingmojo.com/healthyboys"><span style="font-weight: 400">Raising Emotionally Healthy Boys with Dr. Judy Chu</span></a> (which focused on boys' understanding of masculinity in the preschool years), and <a href="https://yourparentingmojo.com/sports/"><span style="font-weight: 400">Playing to Win with Dr. Hilary Levy Friedman</span></a> (which looked at the lessons children learn from sports...which aren't really related to the sports themselves...). &nbsp; <span style="font-weight: 400">And of course there are the two episodes on patriarchy; </span><a href="https://yourparentingmojo.com/patriarchy/"><span style="font-weight: 400">the interview with Dr. Carol Gilligan</span></a>, as well as <a href="https://yourparentingmojo.com/parentingpatriarchy/"><span style="font-weight: 400">my conversation with listener Brian Stout about what we learned during the interview</span></a>. &nbsp; <span style="font-weight: 400">A few weeks ago </span><a href="https://yourparentingmojo.com/captivate-podcast/youngfemininity/"><span style="font-weight: 400">listener Caroline and I interviewed Dr. Marnina Gonick on the topic of girls' relationships</span></a>, which stemmed from the question 'why are middle/high school-aged girls so mean to each other?' but became much broader in scope as we looked at the cultural factors shaping girls' relationships. At the end of that conversation I asked Dr. Gonick if she knew anyone who was doing work similar to hers but looking at boys' relationships, and she did! &nbsp; <span style="font-weight: 400">In today's conversation Caroline returns to co-interview Dr. Michael Kehler, who is Research Professor in Masculinities Studies at the Weklund School of Education at the University of Calgary. We discuss how masculinity isn't something that boys are; it's something they do, how the traditional interpretation of masculinity hurts our b