> masculine sci fi novels focus deeply on engineering problems and all but ignore human or environmental ones

I'd say the Road is a full inversion of this in that it doesn't bother explaining why the world collapsed and purely focuses on how people are left to cope with it

It's a world where femininity and fertility have been completely eradicated and turned into a living hell by said survivalist men who vie to dominate what little is remaining

The only "good" to be found in it is the memory of the Man's wife and the family the child meets at its conclusion