Crisis Masculinity: Male Identity Under Capitalism

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Crisis Masculinity explores how male identities are shaped, influenced and expressed under late-stage capitalism. Analysing films, literature, theory and society at large, Bram E. Gieben offers an incendiary, insightful and often deeply personal account of how it feels to be a man, and what is to be done about the so-called crisis of masculinity. Drawing on feminist, Marxist and heterodox analysis of male identity, misogyny and toxic masculinity, he offers a hopeful prescription for young men — that navigating crisis after crisis is what we do best… and we can always do better.

“Gieben's work is urgent and essential — it opens up the big difficult questions in an increasingly intellectually locked down society.” Ewan Morrison (multi-award winning novelist, author of Tales From The Mall and For Emma)

“Bram’s political and social commentary is not just entertaining, but horrifically coherent.” Darren McGarvey (Orwell Prize winner 2018, author of Trauma Industrial Complex and Poverty Safari)