{"id":53542,"date":"2025-08-08T18:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T18:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/53542\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T18:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T18:39:09","slug":"what-is-wrong-with-men-new-book-explores-that-question-through-michael-douglas-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/53542\/","title":{"rendered":"‘What is Wrong with Men’: New book explores that question through Michael Douglas films"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The cover of “What is Wrong With Men” and author Jessa Crispin. (Courtesy of Pantheon and Laura Ouch)<\/p>\n

In her new book \u201cWhat Is Wrong with Men: Patriarchy, the Crisis of Masculinity, and How (Of Course) Michael Douglas Films Explain Everything,<\/a>\u201d podcaster and author Jessa Crispin<\/a> examines how the films Michael Douglas made in the 1980s and 1990s reflect the anxieties of those times.<\/p>\n

Here & Now\u2018s Emiko Tamagawa speaks with Crispin about the book.<\/p>\n

Book excerpt: \u2018What is Wrong with Men\u2019<\/p>\n

By Jessa Crispin<\/p>\n

The credit line will be: From \u201cWhat Is Wrong With Men By Jessa Crispin\u201d Copyright \u00a9 2025 by Jessa Crispin.\u00a0Published by arrangement with\u00a0Pantheon, an imprint of The Knopf Doubleday Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC<\/p>\n

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.<\/a><\/p>\n

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