The academy today is an incredibly toxic and hostile environment for young men. History books sell to boys the traditional male role of hero and performer. Each history book is 500 pages of advertisements for the performer role. To a boy, history is pressure to perform, not relief from that pressure.
Feminism is relief from the pressure to be confined to only the traditional female role.
Just as, from a girl's perspective, history books are filled with men, from a boy's perspective, school itself is filled with women. It is women teaching him how to be a boy by conforming to what women tell him to do after he's been trained to conform to what his mother tells him to do. Just as women's studies helped women see they have a right to female teachers in business school, so men's studies will help men see they have a right to male teachers in grade school. From the Introduction to Warren Farrell's The Myth of Male Power . Women's studies programs had a place when they were instituted in the seventies, when very little was being taught by or about women in other departments.