Looking for the best Masculinity books? Browse our list to find excellent book recommendations on the subject.
- Masculinities (2005)
- Exploring Masculinities: Identity, Inequality, Continuity and Change (2015)
- 31 Days to Masculinity: A Guide to Help Men Live Authentic Lives (2017)
- Masculinities in Contemporary American Culture: An Intersectional Approach to the Complexities and Challenges of Male Identity (2017)
- The Mask of Masculinity: How Men Can Embrace Vulnerability, Create Strong Relationships, and Live Their Fullest Lives (2019)
- King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine (1991)
- The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love (2004)
- The Way of Men (2012)
- The Biblical Masculinity Blueprint: A Christian Man’s Guide to Attraction, Relationships, and Marriage in a Messed-up World (2019)
- Hegemonic Masculinity: Formulation, Reformulation, and Amplification (2018)
- The Rational Male – Positive Masculinity: Positive Masculinity (Volume 3) (2017)
- Understanding the Assault on the Black Man, Black Manhood and Black Masculinity (2016)
- We Real Cool (2003)
Masculinities (2005)
This is an exciting new edition of R.W. Connell's groundbreaking text, which has become a classic work on the nature and construction of masculine identity. In its first edition, Masculinities provided one of the most important voices in feminist scholarship by men.
Exploring Masculinities: Identity, Inequality, Continuity and Change (2015)
Exploring Masculinities: Identity, Inequality, Continuity, and Change is a comprehensive and contemporary reader for the growing field of men’s and masculinities studies. It takes a conceptual approach by covering the wide range of scholarship being done on masculinities beyond the model of hegemonic masculinity. C.J. Pascoe and Tristan Bridges extend the boundaries of the field and provide a new framework for understanding masculinities studies.
31 Days to Masculinity: A Guide to Help Men Live Authentic Lives (2017)
Society has turned its back on the development of the masculine male. This has created generations of men who are repressing their authentic and biological nature instead of expressing it.
Masculinities in Contemporary American Culture: An Intersectional Approach to the Complexities and Challenges of Male Identity (2017)
Masculinities in Contemporary American Culture offers readers a multidisciplinary, intersectional overview of masculinity studies that includes both theoretical and applied lenses. Keith combines current research with historical perspectives to demonstrate the contexts in which masculine identities have come evolved.
The Mask of Masculinity: How Men Can Embrace Vulnerability, Create Strong Relationships, and Live Their Fullest Lives (2019)
Lewis Howes grew up as an athlete. He was a two-sport All-American, played almost every sport in high school, and went on to play football professionally. Howes then transferred his competitive nature from sports to business, building his podcast, “The School of Greatness,” into a global phenomenon and becoming successful beyond his wildest dreams.
King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine (1991)
The bestselling, widely heralded, Jungian introduction to the psychological foundation of a mature, authentic, and revitalized masculinity.Redefining age-old concepts of masculinity, Jungian analysts Robert Moore and Douglas Gillette make the argument that mature masculinity is not abusive or domineering, but generative, creative, and empowering of the self and others.
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love (2004)
Everyone needs to love and be loved — even men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the ways that patriarchal culture keeps them from knowing themselves, from being in touch with their feelings, from loving. In The Will to Change, bell hooks gets to the heart of the matter and shows men how to express the emotions that are a fundamental part of who they are — whatever their age, marital status, ethnicity, or sexual orientation.
The Way of Men (2012)
What is masculinity? Ask ten men and you’ll get ten vague, conflicting answers. Unlike any book of its kind, The Way of Men offers a simple, straightforward answer-without getting bogged down in religion, morality, or politics. It’s a guide for understanding who men have been and the challenges men face today. The Way of Men captures the silent, stifling rage of men everywhere who find themselves at odds with the over-regulated, over-civilized, politically correct modern world.
The Biblical Masculinity Blueprint: A Christian Man’s Guide to Attraction, Relationships, and Marriage in a Messed-up World (2019)
Because many young men and husbands do not have good masculine role models, it can be difficult for them to understand what a godly relationship and marriage might look like. In today’s culture, there is a lack of fathers passing down teaching to their sons, and, in many cases, what the Church teaches is more assimilated with secular culture, resulting in ineffective discipleship.
Hegemonic Masculinity: Formulation, Reformulation, and Amplification (2018)
The concept of hegemonic masculinity, formulated by Raewyn Connell more than three decades ago, has been the driving force behind the expanding field of masculinities studies. Hegemonic Masculinity: Formulation, Reformulation, and Amplification provides the first comprehensive overview of the concept—from its original conception to how it has evolved over time.
The Rational Male – Positive Masculinity: Positive Masculinity (Volume 3) (2017)
Building once more on the core works of The Rational Male by Rollo Tomassi, Positive Masculinity is the newest supplemental reading in the series designed to give men, not a prescription, but actionable information to build better lives for themselves based on realistic and objective intersexual dynamics between men and women.
Understanding the Assault on the Black Man, Black Manhood and Black Masculinity (2016)
Assault on the black man his manhood and his masculinity from slavery til today was and is part of a Global Project.
We Real Cool (2003)
“When women get together and talk about men, the news is almost always bad news,” writes bell hooks. “If the topic gets specific and the focus is on black men, the news is even worse.”In this powerful new book, bell hooks arrests our attention from the first page. Her title–We Real Cool; her subject–the way in which both white society and weak black leaders are failing black men and youth.
Best Masculinity Books Worth Your Attention
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Detoxing Masculinity in Anglophone Literature and Culture: In Search of Good Men
Author(s): Sara Martín, M. Isabel Santaulària
ID: 3675710, Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, Year: 2023, Size: 5 Mb, Format: pdf
Muslim Fathers and Mistrusted Masculinity in Danish Schools
Author(s): Anne Hovgaard Jørgensen
ID: 3675985, Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, Year: 2023, Size: 4 Mb, Format: pdf
Masculinities and the Culture of Competitive Cycling
Author(s): Jack Hardwicke
ID: 3699141, Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, Year: 2023, Size: 5 Mb, Format: pdf
Please note that this booklist is not absolute. Some books are absolutely record-breakers according to Los Angeles Times, others are composed by unknown authors. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant books you could recommend? Leave a comment if you have any feedback on the list.