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The Real Conversation About “Mankeeping” Isn’t About Men

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Field Notes · by Kristen Tolbert

Mankeeping isn't a hashtag. It's a theory, published in Psychology of Men & Masculinities, and it's more precise than the version that went viral. Ferrara and Vergara define it as the labor women take on to shore up the losses in men's social networks — not emotio...

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