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Maybe someday

30

/100

I Index Overall Rating

Readers

7/100

Critics

53/100

Scholars

N/A

Author:

Manuel Betancourt

Publisher:

Catapult

Date:

May 30, 2023

Grapples with the thrall of masculinity, examining its frailty and its attendant anxieties even as it focuses on its erotic potential. Masculinity, Betancourt suggests, isn't suddenly ripe for deconstruction—or even outright destruction—amid so much talk about its inherent toxicity. Looking back over decades' worth of pop culture's attempts to codify and reframe what men can be, wear, do, and desire, this book establishes that to gaze at men is still a subversive act.

What The Reviewers Say

John Paul Brammer,
The New York Times Book Review
A smart, refreshing essay collection on the subject, and deals directly and honestly with the paradoxes surrounding the topic of men.

Publishers Weekly
Smart and probing.

Kirkus
Absorbing.