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A Point of View: Masculinity: From Durkheim to Andrew Tate

07/05/2021

Masculinity: From Durkheim to Andrew Tate

BBC Radio 4 - A Point of View, Masculinity: From Durkheim to Andrew Tate

Zoe Strimpel on modern masculinity and the dangers posed by the rhetoric of Andrew Tate.

Zoe Strimpel reflects on the power of the 'manosphere' and, in particular, that of self-professed misogynist, Andrew Tate.

Zoe Strimpel looks at the history of masculinity and its moments of crisis, from Emile Durkheim at the end of the 19th Century to self-professed misogynist, Andrew Tate, today.  

'The contemporary manosphere', she writes, 'doesn't appear to have any positive idea of what men should be, apart from rich, priapic and nasty - and within the long history of masculinity in crisis - this feels new'. 

Producer: Adele Armstrong 
Sound: Peter Bosher
Production coordinator: Iona Hammond
Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith

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