Carnage in the classroom, misogynists in high office, sociopaths in uniform, masculinity is a killer. From styles of dress to the stunted capacity for expressing a diversity of emotions, becoming a man involves killing off and repudiating anything that in our society is held as feminine. When a person is unable to show compassion and tenderness, or when exposed for their frailties, feels angry and humiliated, they have problems. Problems that none of us are immune to. Masculinity, Cremin provocatively declares, is a generic disorder of a sick society that afflicts even the best of us. Neither a condition of being human nor even of male, it is a disorder, as she illustrates, of a capitalist society that depends and even thrives upon its very symptoms. From the perspective of a trans woman raised to be a man, the book maps the disorder and speculates on the possible means to overcome it. Instead of signifying weakness, catastrophes can be prevented when the qualities men often fear and women often feel subordinated to are prioritised, affirmed and nourished. Drawing, amongst others, on Marx and Freud, Cremin eloquently demonstrates why there can be no future other than one in which we are all reconciled as a society with the feminine. In such a future, the terms 'masculine' and 'feminine' will neither define us nor determine our relationship to one another.

AcknowledgementsChapter One: The General SicknessFeminine PraxisFemininity in PerspectiveAndrocentric DisorderMiles Davis Teaches How to do TheoryChapter two: Who's Ur Daddy?Death Becomes HimDividends for DisorderThe Best is Not Good EnoughChapter Three: Toxicity IndexTables and ChairsCalibrated MasculinityReactive / Aggravated Masculinities (RAMS)Degendering AggressionMeet the SignifiersRefusal through ResignificationChapter Four: Vectors Of AndrocentrismCups and SorcerersBezos on the BarricadeDawn of the DisorderThe Four Labours of MasculinityDo Androids Have Castration Anxieties?Chapter Five: QueervestismPerspective on PerversionPleasure as PrincipleLipstick is LifeTrans Eye ViewTransvestic FigureWhat is Woman Good For?Chapter Six: Obsolesent EmpireA Lack Less OrdinaryFemininity is the Riddle of the Masculine Disorder Solved, and it Knows Itself to be this SolutionBibliographyIndex