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Masculinity: From Durkheim to Andrew Tate

Published: Jan. 20, 2023, 9 p.m.

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 \nSound: Peter Bosher\nProduction coordinator: Iona Hammond\nEditor: Richard Fenton-Smith