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Title
The new politics of fatherhood : men's movements and masculinities / Ana Jordan.
ISBN
9781137314987 (electronic book)
1137314982 (electronic book)
9780230365377
Published
London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1057/978-1-137-31
Call Number
HQ756
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.8742
Summary
This book makes a unique contribution to contemporary research into masculinities, mens movements, and fathers rights groups. It examines the role of changing masculinities in creating equality and/or reinforcing inequality by analysing diverse mens movements, their politics, and the identities they (re)construct. Jordan advances a typology for categorising mens movements ('feminist', 'postfeminist', and 'backlash movements) and addresses debates over the construction of 'masculinity-in-crisis, arguing that 'crisis is frequently invoked in problematic ways. These themes are further explored through original analyses of material produced by 'feminist, 'postfeminist, and 'backlash mens groups. The main empirical contribution of the book draws on interviews with fathers rights activists to explore the (gendered) implications of the 'new politics of fatherhood. The nuanced examination of fathers rights perspectives reveals multiple, complex narratives of masculinity, fatherhood, and gender politics. The cumulative effect of these is, at best, postfeminist and depoliticising, and, at worst, another vitriolic 'backlash. The New Politics of Fatherhood expands scholarly understandings of gender, masculinities, and social movements in the under-researched UK context, and will appeal to readers with interests in these areas.
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Source of Description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed July 10, 2019)
Series
Genders and sexualities in the social sciences.
Available in Other Form
Print version: 9780230365377
1. Introduction
2. Gender, Social Movements and the Politics of Backlash
3. Masculinities in Crisis?
4. Feminist Mens Movements: The White Ribbon Campaign (UK) and the dilemmas of feminist men
5. Postfeminist Mens Movements: The Campaign Against Living Miserably and male suicide as "crisis"
6. Backlash Mens Movements Part 1: (Real) Fathers 4 Justice, bourgeois-rational and new man/new father masculinities
6. Backlash Mens Movements Part 2: (Real) Fathers 4 Justice, hypermasculinity, and fathers as superheroes
7. Conclusion.
