The pioneering struggle of Wagner College psychology professor Miles Groth toward establishing male studies as an academic discipline of its own — distinct from women’s studies, gender studies, even men’s studies — has been profiled in an extended feature appearing this weekend in the New York Times’ quarterly Education Life supplement.
The article by former Times Book Review editor Charles McGrath explains what distinguishes male studies from other disciplines — and why — within the context of a genuine cultural crisis: Today’s young men are not readily finding their place in the world, because that world no longer accommodates their maleness.
This weekend’s Education Life story follows upon a teleconference on male studies hosted last spring by Groth on Wagner’s Staten Island campus. The conference generated incredible interest — and controversy — both among the popular and higher education media and the various advocacy communities concerned with gender issues. (For more about the conference, see the story from Inside Higher Ed, which was one of its most commented upon articles of the month.)
With a Ph.D. from Fordham University, Miles Groth is a trained psychoanalyst who has been in private practice and teaching since 1977. His current interests include "the psychology of being male, especially the experience of boyhood and the transition to manhood.”
You will find links to a variety of articles by and about Prof. Groth on the Wagner College website.
Times profiles Groth, male studies
January 7, 2011
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