mankeeping

As for the various ways that women help men compensate for stunted social networks, Ferrara labels such forms of labor as “mankeeping,” by analogy to sociologist Carolyn Rosenthal’s theory of “kinkeeping,” or the labor that women do to maintain bonds within their families.

The structural burden of men’s declining social networks | The Clayman Institute for Gender Research Marianna Y. Zhang, Graduate Dissertation Fellow 2025