Are Men Animals?: How Modern Masculinity Sells Men Short

"Boys will be boys," the saying goes — but what does that actually mean? A leading anthropologist investigates


Why do men behave the way they do? Is it their male brains? Surging testosterone? From vulgar locker-room talk to mansplaining to sexual harassment, society is too quick to explain male behavior in terms of biology.


In Are Men Animals?, anthropologist Matthew Gutmann argues that predatory male behavior is in no way inevitable. Men behave the way they do because culture permits it, n...