6 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Richard Reeves's 2022 book documenting the widening gaps between men and women in educational attainment, workforce participation, and health — arguing that the male gender crisis is a social policy emergency that liberal institutions have been unable to address.
British-American scholar at the Brookings Institution and founder of the American Institute for Boys and Men, whose book Of Boys and Men documented the falling behind of boys and men across education, employment, and health — bringing rigorous social science to the male gender crisis debate.
Ursula Le Guin's 1969 Hugo and Nebula award-winning science fiction novel set on a world where humans have no fixed gender, using the premise to examine what gender is, what politics and loyalty mean, and what makes us human.
Judith Butler's 1990 foundational text of queer theory — arguing that gender is not an expression of an inner essence but a performative achievement, constituted through repeated acts and citations of norm.
The academic field emerging from the intersection of feminist theory and gay/lesbian studies in the early 1990s — questioning the stability of sexual identity categories, heteronormativity, and the political investments of identity politics.
American literary critic and one of the founders of queer theory — whose Epistemology of the Closet (1990) established that the closet (the open secret of homosexuality) is a structuring principle of modern Western culture.