Preface: Worried Dad to Worried Wonk -- Part I: The Male Malaise: Girls Rule: Boys Are Behind in Education -- Working Man Blues: Men Are Losing Ground in the Labor Market -- Dislocated Dads: Fathers Have Lost Their Traditional Role in the Family -- Part II: Double Disadvantage -- Dwight's Glasses: Black Boys and Men Face Acute Challenges -- Class Ceiling: Poor Boys and Men Are Suffering -- Non-Responders: Policies Aren't Helping Boys and Men -- Part III: Biology and Culture -- Making Men: Nature and Nurture Both Matter -- Part IV: Political Stalemate -- Progressive Blindness: The Political Left Is in Denial -- Seeing Red: The Political Right Wants to Turn Back the Clock -- Part V: What to Do -- Redshirt the Boys: Boys Need an Extra Year in the Classroom -- Men Can HEAL: Getting Men into the Jobs of the Future -- New Dads: Fatherhood as an Independent Social Institution -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index

Reeves looks at the structural challenges that face boys and men and offers fresh and innovative solutions that turn the page on the corrosive narrative that plagues this issue. Of Boys and Men argues that helping the other half of society does not mean giving up on the ideal of gender equality