ABSTRACT
Levant and Wong (2017) begin their introductory chapter of their book The Psychology of Men and Masculinities with an anecdote about a proposal they had made to the American Psychological Association (APA) concerning starting of a separate division on the psychology of men. They narrate that in response to such a proposal, they were met with questions such as “Why do we need that? Isn’t all psychology the psychology of men?” (p. 3) pointing to the historical treatment of men as the unmarked and universal reference group or standard to represent humanity in general and to which women can be compared. Two decades later, the authors write, not only has a separate division been formed in the APA (Division 51 – Psychological Study of Men and Masculinities) but importantly, by acknowledging “its historical debt to feminist-inspired scholarship on gender” (Levant & Wong, 2017, p. 3), it signals the benefits of including transformative masculinities in feminist projects for gender justice (Waling, 2019).
