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This book explores men's ambiguous relationship with intimate caring work within a context where carefree and nurturing expectations for men are competing for influence. For men, to be more involved carers clashes with commonly valued expectations of them as men and this book analyses how men confront this contradictory expectation.

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Hanlon has produced a comprehensive text on masculinity and caring and one that I would recommend to scholars across the social sciences. It was an engaging piece to read, one that was well thought out and presented. - Journal of Gender Studies This book could serve as a teaching tool in advanced gender studies courses because it provides a rare, in depth analysis of how men interpret their role in fathering, housework, and emotion work - Sex Roles Feminist debate has long been derailed by the question, But what about the men? . Hanlon's book answers this sensitively and comprehensively and lays the foundations on which we can start to build a model of affective equality. - Huffington Post This publication could be used as an excellent guide in developing policy and practice in men's caring contexts. Niall Hanlon made an excellent case for masculinities studies to take up 'care', and its contexts, as an important focus of study and debate. - Irish Journal of Sociology

Hanlon has produced a comprehensive text on masculinity and caring and one that I would recommend to scholars across the social sciences. It was an engaging piece to read, one that was well thought out and presented. - Journal of Gender Studies

'While the political question of care and caring has long been on feminist agendas, an explicit critical focus on men, masculinities and care has been taken up less frequently. If you are interested in how care and lack of care works by and for men - in care-free, care-less and care-full masculinities - this is the book for you! The book should become a key text not just in relation to theory and policy on care, but for changing everyday practice too.' - Jeff Hearn, Professor of Gender Studies, Linkoping University, Sweden, Professor of Sociology, University of Huddersfield, UK, and co-author of Men and Masculinities in Europe 'Hanlon's Masculinities, Care and Equality is a fresh perspective on the worlds of men, masculinities, and caring. The text, focusing on the lives of diverse Irish men, creatively weaves together rich theoretical perspectives on men and masculinity while simultaneously placing the diverse voices of men in that landscape. The text is incredibly engaging, interesting, and thought provoking. MCE will appeal to people from various disciplines who wish to understand unique systemic power-relations that shape the constructs of gender and the ways in which diverse men negotiate their own unique understanding of themselves as carers. The text is both critical of privilege as it relates to the disengagement of caring practices and sensitive to the systemic and individual factors that contribute to a more nuanced understanding of caring for men. A sophisticated analysis that will be welcomed by the field.' - Jack S. Kahn, Ph.D. Author of an Introduction to Masculinities 'This is an admirably profound account of an important but neglected topic. Care could not be a more important subject and this book's elucidation of masculinity and care is a significant contribution to the field that deserves a wide audience.' Mary Daly, Professor in the School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work, Queen's University Belfast, UK

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NIALL HANLON is a Lecturer in in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Dublin Business School, Ireland. He has published book chapters and journal articles on men, masculinities and care, as well as on social care practice, theory and education.  

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