For several decades, femininity has been a favorite topic within feminist theory. Masculinity, by contrast, received short shrift. This essay focuses on masculinity and how it should be theorized, drawing upon the several recent books on men and masculinity, written from different disciplinary and theoretical perspectives. Despite the considerable merits of this scholarship, it remains somewhat disappointing. It lacks contextualization, focuses on masculinity as a white, middle-class, heterosexual phenomenon, and does not make use of the theorist's reflexivity as a resource for making sense of masculinity.