Taking the Red Pill: Men and Masculinities Today.

In contemporary culture to "take the red pill" or to be "red-pilled" means peering beneath the "illusions" of mainstream society to perceive the "truth" about reality, an act professed by many males today who feel marginalized in the late modern world. As a way of accounting for this situation this course charts the rise of male discontent since the 1950s within the United States and abroad. Employing interdisciplinary and transnational perspectives, it explores how men and masculinities are represented and experienced during periods of rapid change connected to "modernity" as well as the rights-based movements of women, people of color, and LGBTQIA+ people