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Men need to do more than simply do better. In Masculinity in Transition, K. Allison Hammer locates that more in forms of movement—movement with others, for others, and, significantly, moving in masculinity otherwise. Hammer's men and masculinities are also more plural than a dominant discourse of manhood would willingly entertain. For Hammer, putting masculinity in motion promises to proliferate its alternatives by way of unfixing a seemingly static, impossibly singular, and exceedingly violent normative masculinity. All the while, Hammer rarely loses sight of how such deep-seated violence still finds its way into the best of intentions. The title's “transition” does outsize work here. In much of the text, transition makes space for the deployment of trans theory and the viability of transmasculine life, but it also allows for the necessity of thinking masculinity in process, in draft, and, following C. Riley Snorton (2017: 197), in the complicated...