Toxic mask-ulinity: What COVID-19 tells us about the cult of the ‘manly man’
"How has a public health measure become a point of gender expression?"
Review: BOYS
Boys, by Ella Hickson, centres on a group of men at the crisis point between university and the real world. As both Benny and...
Call of Masculinity
After working on a Channel 4 documentary on masculinity, William Atkinson reflects on the role of culture in the formation of male identity - and whether it has a role to play in recent atrocities in the US.
Driven to Tears
“I’d thought being a ‘lad’ was what you had to do in this day and age. But I hated what it made me”
Numbers Review – commendable but difficult to feel nuance
The play was particularly successful in its exploration of masculinity
Gillette’s advertisement is sharper than usual
The divide between the two runs deep and is, forgive the pun, razor-sharp. It’ll continue to be a daily task to point out that certain ideas of manliness are outdated and simply unacceptable. But that can’t change without normal men, real men, in fact: all men reflecting on their own behaviour, and taking their own share of responsibility.
Normal People Review – ‘a novel that speaks to the current climate’
Jenny Scoones discusses the portrayal of masculinity and friendship in Sally Rooney's second novel
Toxic Masculinity and the Mythopoetical Movement
Books like Michael Meade's Men and Waters of Life are just as important as Feminist classics in the fight towards equality
Analysing men, makeup, and masculinity
Beauty correspondent Beth Brand investigates the outdated stigma surrounding the male beauty industry
