Manliness & Civilization

Harvard FAS

Countless podcast hours and think-pieces are currently being devoted to the crisis in American masculinity, from boys’ lagging test scores to the “male loneliness epidemic.” Rather than try to solve these problems as such, this class will ask: why is this apparent crisis in masculinity a national problem, with implications for the well-being of the nation itself? When else has masculinity been in “crisis,” and what are the material, political, and cultural conditions that have…