| My Private Pectus teaching notes |
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Download My Private Pectus teaching notes (.pdf) Shane Thamm's Private Pectus is a young adult novel about boys becoming men. Jack ‘Sticks’ McDermott is in Year 12 and has a few things on his mind. When his dad starts to coach the school rugby league team, he begins to understand that the time has come for him to find his own path. The army is his father’s idea. Jack is thinking about becoming a mechanic. It is also time for Jack to find a girlfriend and Samantha Dean seems to be putting up her hand. It could all work out for Jack or fall in a great heap. As he stares at his sunken chest in the mirror, he knows that the time has come. But for what? My Private Pectus is a story about a young man learning to be comfortable in his own skin. It's testament to the fact that body image concern is no longer a girls' only affair.
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| About male body image anxiety and My Private Pectus |
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| Pectus Excavatum is the chest condition of the main character Jack McDermott. Learn more about this condition via the pectusinfo website. See what the condition looks like on Google Images. There is also some good info on Wikipedia. Did you know that about 45 per cent of men in Western societies are unhappy with their bodies? And this figure has tripled in the last 25 years. Research about boys and body image has increased dramatically in the last decade. Take a look at a few of these websites. By the end, you'll agree, male body image axniety is "the elephant in the room."
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| Shane Thamm discusses My Private Pectus on ABC radio |
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| Look around any bookshop or newsagent and if you're a teenage girl, you are spoilt for choice on cues or markers on what it's like to be on the fast track to becoming a woman. But if you're a 13 year old boy, grappling with body image issues like whether you look normal, sound normal or act normal, it's a tough call... Read more and listen on the ABC's blog, Mornings with Madonna King. Or listen right here:
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