How to Deconstruct Misogyny with Young People: Resource List for Educators

Here are some of the referenced books, reports, podcasts, articles and toolkits that we have found useful in exploring how misogyny shows up, how it affects young people today, and what educators can do about it. 

This resource list relates to our CPD training for educators ‘How to: Deconstruct Misogyny with Young People’: click here to explore booking this session for your organisation.

Last updated - May 2026.

To understand the big picture:

• Voice of the Boys Report (Male Allies UK, 2025)

• State of UK Men Report (Equimundo, 2025)

• How to engage men in ending VAWG: New Paths to Prevention (End Violence Against Women Coalition, 2025)

• Now and Men Podcast: Changing Masculinities, Challenging Norms (Sandy Ruxton and Dr Stephen Burrell)

• Understanding the logic of misogyny (Kate Manne, 2025)

• About the Boys (Radio 4, 2024) and About the Girls (Radio 4, 2026) https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m001yshl?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile / https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/m002tzpy    

• Girl’s Attitude Survey: A girl’s world: sexism, misogyny and the power of sisterhood (Girlguiding, 2025)

• Why is the manosphere on the rise? UN Women sounds the alarm over online misogyny (United Nations, 2025) 

• “Almost a third of Gen Z men agree a wife should obey her husband” (KCL, 2026)

Best practice for educators: 

• “We’re in this together”: Reframing masculinity for young men and boys - A resource for parents/carers, educators, and professionals (Dr Sophie King-Hill, 2025)

• Schooling Misogyny -  Exposing and Eliminating the Influence of the Manosphere in Education Settings (Stephanie Wescott and Steven Roberts, 2026)

• Reimagining responses to Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) in schools: A safe uncertainty approach (Emily Setty, 2025)

• "Kindness should not translate as weakness" - reflections on a workshop series with teenage boys (Tash Loshack, 2026)

Subject Specific:

• English - Reading How to be Male (Dr Troy Potter, 2026)

• History - Sexism in the History Curriculucum (ESIS, 2026)

• PSHE - How can schools convince boys that emotional awareness is important? (Joshua Stubbs, John Dillon)

Academic Research and Analysis:

• Sexual harm and image sharing: rethinking and reimagining gender, power and intimacy with and for adolescent boys (Emily Setty, 2026)

• Mainstreaming the Manosphere’s Misogyny Through Affective Homosocial Currencies: Exploring How Teen Boys Navigate the Andrew Tate Effect

• If you tolerate mis(ogyny), then fascisms will be next: rewriting the classroom script through affirmative ethics’ (Rob Walker and Kay Sidebottom, 2026)

Further understanding ‘The Manosphere’:

• What is the Manosphere? Exploring male-dominated online spaces promoting misogyny (Equimundo, 2025)

• Patriarchy, Power and Violence - Substack Series (Dr Stephanie Wescott & Professor Steven Roberts)

• Recommending Toxicity: The role of algorithmic recommender functions on YouTube Shorts and TikTok in promoting male supremacist influencers (Dr Catherine Baker, Prof Debbie Ging and Dr Maja Brandt Andreasen, 2024)

• Hustle, muscle and grift: how the manosphere has grown into a money‑making machine (Vivian Gerrand, Debbie Ging, Josh Roose, Michael Flood, 2025)

Inspiring Documentaries:

• Boys Will Be…Themselves (2022)  

• Beyond Men & Masculinity (2020)  

• The Feminist in Cell Block Y (2018)  

• The Mask You Live In (2014)  

Inspiring Books:

• The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change - Rebecca Solnit (2026)

• Collapse Feminism: The Online Battle for Feminism's Future - Alice Capelle (2023) 

• Mask Off: Masculinity Redefined - JJ Bola (2019)

• Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny by Kate Manne (2017)

• The Will to Change - bell hooks (2004)