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OverviewThis book discusses men’s friendships in relation to queer, discursive, and intersectional feminist theories. It analyses stories of intimacy, touch, hugs, and conversations, connecting these with current discussions within feminism and critical masculinity studies on “new” men, men’s political activism, and how friendships are lived and conceptualised in relation to heteronormative relationship ideals. Drawing on individual and dyadic interviews with middle-class Swedish men, all engaged in or sympathetic to feminist issues in some sense, this volume shows that Swedish gender equality ideologies as well as feminist, therapeutic, neo-liberal, and individualist discourses prevalent in the Western world structured the men’s friendships and their engagement with gender politics. Chapters cover friendship temporalities, gendered friendship ideals, friendship as men’s politics, and friendship as performed in interaction. Bridging the literatures of feminist research and friendship, the author points to tensions and contradictions in pro-feminist men’s political projects and in contemporary masculine positions. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Klara GoedeckePublisher: Springer International Publishing AG Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Edition: 1st ed. 2022 Weight: 0.283kg ISBN: 9783031117732ISBN 10: 3031117735 Pages: 198 Publication Date: 31 October 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationKlara Goedecke is a researcher in Gender Studies at Stockholm University, Sweden. Her research focuses on men and masculinities from intersectional perspectives, and includes work on men’s friendships, homosociality, postfeminism, Swedishness, and gender equality. Her work has appeared in Men & Masculinities, Feminist Media Studies, and European Journal of Culture Studies, and she is the co-editor (with Helena Wahlström Henriksson) of Close Relations: Family, Kinship and Beyond (Springer 2021). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |