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The New Politics of Fatherhood : Men's Movements and Masculinities / by Ana Jordan
(Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences. ISSN:29478790)

Publisher	(London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan)
Year	2019
Edition	1st ed. 2019.
Authors	*Jordan, Ana author SpringerLink (Online service)

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Material Type	E-Book
Media type	機械可読データファイル
Size	XIII, 310 p. 1 illus : online resource
Notes	1. Introduction -- 2. Gender, Social Movements and the Politics of Backlash -- 3. Masculinities in Crisis? -- 4. Feminist Men’s Movements: The White Ribbon Campaign (UK) and the dilemmas of feminist men -- 5. Postfeminist Men’s Movements: The Campaign Against Living Miserably and male suicide as “crisis” -- 6. Backlash Men’s Movements Part 1: (Real) Fathers 4 Justice, bourgeois-rational and new man/new father masculinities -- 6. Backlash Men’s Movements Part 2: (Real) Fathers 4 Justice, hypermasculinity, and fathers as superheroes -- 7. Conclusion This book makes a unique contribution to contemporary research into masculinities, men’s movements, and fathers’ rights groups. It examines the role of changing masculinities in creating equality and/or reinforcing inequality by analysing diverse men’s movements, their politics, and the identities they (re)construct. Jordan advances a typology for categorising men’s 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’ men’s 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 HTTP:URL=https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-31498-7
Subjects	LCSH:Sex LCSH:Sociology LCSH:Social groups FREE:Gender Studies FREE:Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging
Classification	LCC:HQ12-449 DC23:305.3
ID	8000062634
ISBN	9781137314987