Men's studies - sometimes called masculinity studies - is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to topics concerning men, masculinity, gender, and politics. As a relatively new field of study, men's studies was formed largely in response to, and as a critique of, an emerging men's rights movement - itself a response to both the real and perceived advantages brought to women by feminist political action - and as such, has been taught in acad...
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Men's studies - sometimes called masculinity studies - is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to topics concerning men, masculinity, gender, and politics. As a relatively new field of study, men's studies was formed largely in response to, and as a critique of, an emerging men's rights movement - itself a response to both the real and perceived advantages brought to women by feminist political action - and as such, has been taught in academic settings only since the 1970s. In many universities, men's studies is a correlate to women's studies or part of a larger gender studies program, and as such its faculty tends to be sympathetic to or engaged in feminist politics.
In contrast to the discipline of Masculine Psychology, Men's studies programs and courses often include contemporary discussions of men's rights, masculism, feminist theory, queer theory, matriarchy, patriarchy, and, more generally, the social, historical, and cultural constructions of men and virility. They often...
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