Self-Made Man
Eighteen months living as a man, covering friendship, dating, work, social expectations, and psychological pressure.
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Feminist theory rarely lets men describe their experience without accusing them of defending privilege. This selection joins women who stepped outside that script with men who study discrimination, boys’ education, and the price of the male role.
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Feminism for Men
Section titled “Feminism for Men”
The Will to Change
The male role deprives men of emotional language, intimacy, and available support.
Communion
Women can love badly too: care can become control, independence does not create intimacy, and a man should not be punished for the vulnerability he was asked to show.
Unhooked
Young women helped build sex without commitment: choosing became easier, attachment became risky, and men could become disposable too.
The War Against Boys
One-sided education policy harms boys and young men.
What About Men?
A contemporary feminist recognizes male problems without relying on collective guilt.
What Do Men Want?
A philosophical account of masculine discontent and the collapse of a legible male role.
Free Women, Free Men
Freedom means responsibility. Paglia attacks victimhood, credits male achievement, and argues that strong women gain nothing from weakening men.
Men on Strike
Men withdraw from marriage, fatherhood, and traditional careers when duties remain but rights and rewards disappear.
Manning Up
Delayed male adulthood and the loss of a clear passage from youth to responsibility.
Stiffed
Economy and culture strip men of provider status, dignity in work, and a sense of being needed.
T: The Story of Testosterone
Testosterone, male behavior, and biological differences that ideology reduces to socialization.
Save the Males
A defense of men's importance to family and society in a culture that discusses them chiefly as a problem.
The End of Men
Work and education became better fitted to women, making the old picture of male advantage obsolete.
Feminism Against Progress
The price technological and social change imposes on family, relationships, and motherhood.
It’s Complicated
Section titled “It’s Complicated”
Heterophobia
Patai puts the accused man back in the frame: facts, due process, and one rule for both sexes.
The Case Against the Sexual Revolution
Sex without obligation especially suits the person who plans to avoid responsibility. Perry brings reputation, monogamy, and marriage back into the argument.
Are Men Obsolete?
Four women debate whether men are obsolete. The argument runs through work, education, family, and the search for a new male role.
The Women and Men of 1926
A mining family as a labour contract: he provided and paid in physical risk, she ran the home. After defeat, women helped preserve male status too.
Household Accounts
Who earned, who held the purse, who kept personal money, and who paid the bills were different questions inside interwar working-class families.
The male view
Section titled “The male view”
Of Boys and Men
The crisis of boys and men in education, family, work, and the search for a new role.
The Myth of Male Power
Hidden costs of the male role, the price of “male power,” and male disposability.
The Boy Crisis
Why boys are struggling and what must be done to reverse the crisis.
Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say
Male emotional life, communication, and mutual misunderstanding between the sexes.
The Second Sexism
A philosophical analysis of discrimination against men and boys.
The Hazards of Being Male
The psychological price of the traditional male role and the myth of male privilege.
Spreading Misandry
An investigation of the image of men in modern popular culture.
Legalizing Misandry
How contempt for men moves from culture into public institutions.
Woman: A Textbook for Men
A male account of relations between the sexes through evolutionary psychology, ethology, and reproductive strategy.
The Revolution of Man
Male crisis, suicide, fatherhood, and the Man Box. Barker sees male pain clearly, then too often tells the man to fix himself.
No More Sex War
A critique of the confrontational model of relations between men and women.
Iron John
Male maturity, initiation, and the search for an adult identity.
Real Boys
Raising boys and the consequences of banning male emotional expression.
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