This collection covers a diverse and multi-disciplinary range of topics on how masculinities might be re-imagined outside of patriarchal power structures. Crucially, the book highlights the lived complexity of both patriarchies and masculinities as plural and situated, exploring questions of how they are constructed, negotiated and re-negotiated in daily practice; of how performative regimes interact, contradict and overlap with each other across a range of contexts.
Contributors engage with theoretical frameworks engaging with feminist theory, contemporary politics of gender, bodies and marginalised experiences of masculinites. Global case studies are wide-ranging and include analysis of masculinity among communities such as drag artists, InCels and e-sports enthusiasts, as well as in the context of the body, for instance in relation to alcoholism and physical disability.
In an era of resurgence of typically hegemonic patriarchal figures in the form of ‘strong men’ leadership, this book seeks to uncover what an alternative vision of masculinity could look like - one that is firmly rooted in a gender equality and feminist discourse.
List of Contributors
Foreword by Andrea Cornwall
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Patriarchies in practice (Dan Nightingale, Nikki van der Gaag and Amir Massoumian)
Part 1: Backlash – From margins to mainstream
1. Alpha and nerd masculinities: Antifeminism in the digital sphere (Annie Kelly)
2. ‘Before and after #MeToo’: How French perpetrators of domestic violence perceive themselves as ‘victims of feminism’ (Cristina Oddone)
3. Phantom masculinities: Brexit, absence, and nostalgia in London pubs (Amir Massoumian)
4. Is there a ‘post-patriarchal’ Indian man? An ethnography of ‘new’ discourses of neoliberal masculinities in India (Shannon Phillip)
Part 2: Normativity and diversity
5. Tenuous masculinities: Situated agency and value of the Indonesian transgender men’s masculinities (Alvi A. H. and Hendri Yulius Wijaya)
6. ‘It’s the touch that is doing the talking’: UK sex clubs, dark rooms and the loss of masculinity (Chris Haywood)
7. Misogyny, fear or boundary maintenance? Responses to brand activism on gender diversity amongst players of Magic: The Gathering (Ceri Oeppen)
8. It takes a lot of balls to be a lady: Drag queens, masculinity and stigma (Elisa Padilla)
Part 3: Bodies and Minds
9. Sobriety, service and selfhood: Moral-existential reconfiguration of masculinity in alcoholics anonymous in a large English city (Lucy Clarke)
10 Unheard voices, untold stories; men with disabilities – The invisible victims of patriarchy, a study of Kolkata, Bengal, India (Debarati Chakraborty)
11. An interview with Ed Fornieles (Ed Fornieles, Amir Massoumian, Dan Nightingale)
12. The cultural work of hormones: The story of David and testosterone (Lauren Redfern)
Conclusion – Rupture and renewal, accountability and agency (Nikki van der Gaag, Amir Massoumian, Dan Artus)
Index
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