Research Catalog

Title

What about men? : a feminist answers the question / Caitlin Moran.

Author

Moran, Caitlin, 1975-

Publication

• New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023]
• ©2023

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Details

Description

viii, 310 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"Like anyone who discusses the problems of girls and women in public, Caitlin Moran has often been confronted with the question: "But what about men?" And at first, TBH, she dgaf. Boys, and men, are fine, right? Feminism doesn't need to worry about them. However, around the time she heard an angry young man saying he was "boycotting" International Women' Day because "It's easier to be a woman than a man these days," she started to wonder: are unhappy boys, and men, also making unhappy women? The statistics on male misery are grim: boys are falling behind in school, are at greater risk of depression, greater risk of suicide, and, most pertinently, are increasingly at risk from online misogynist radicalization. Will the Sixth Wave of feminism need to fix the men, if it wants to fix the women? Moran began to investigate--talking to her husband, close male friends, and her daughters' friends: bringing up very difficult and candid topics, and receiving vulnerable and honest responses. So: what about men? Why do they only go to the doctor if their partner makes them? Why do they never discuss their penises with each other--but make endless jokes about their balls? What is porn doing for young men? Is sexual strangling a good hobby for young people to have? Are men ever allowed to be sad? Are they ever allowed to lose? Have Men's Rights Activists confused "power" with "empowerment"? Are Mid-Life Crises actually quite cool? And what's the deal with Jordan Peterson's lobster? In this thoughtful, warm, provocative book, Moran opens a genuinely new debate about how to reboot masculinity for the twenty-first century, so that "straight white man" doesn't automatically mean bad news--but also uses the opportunity to make a lot of jokes about testicles, and trousers. Because if men have neither learned to mine their deepest anxieties about masculinity for comedy, nor answered the question "What About Men?," then it's up to a busy woman to do it"--

Subject

• Masculinity
• Men > Identity
• Sex differences
• Sex role
• Feminism
• Anti-feminism
• Man-woman relationships > United States
• Oppression (Psychology)
• Man-woman relationships
• Gender expression
• Gender roles
• Masculinities
• Men
• Role behavior
• Sex (Body)
• United States

Genre/Form

Creative nonfiction.

Note

• "First published in the United Kingdom in 2023 by Ebury Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House UK"--Title page verso.

Contents

Prologue: What about men? -- How to be a boy -- The conversations of men -- The bodies of men -- The clothes of men -- The cocks and balls of men -- The sex of men -- The pornography of men -- The friendships of men -- Men talking to women -- The advice of men -- The manosphere--or, extreme misogyny on the internet -- The fatherhood of men -- The illnesses of men--or, why won't men go to the doctor? -- The oldness of men -- What about men? -- Epilogue.

Call Number

JFE 23-3120

ISBN

• 9780062893741
• 0062893742

OCLC

1391696694

Author

Moran, Caitlin, 1975- author.

Title

What about men? : a feminist answers the question / Caitlin Moran.

Publisher

New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023]

Copyright Date

©2023

Edition

First U.S. edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Research Call Number

JFE 23-3120