Overview

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.

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Author:   Nikki van der Gaag ,  Amir Massoumian (SOAS, UK) ,  Dan Nightingale (UCL, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:  

9780755640041

ISBN 10:   0755640047
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   09 February 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

Reviews

Patriarchy in Practice is an excellent, welcome and sobering contribution to ethnographic scholarship on contemporary masculinities. It reflects a refreshing appreciation of the remarkable adaptability and resilience of patriarchy, and it feels attuned to the zeitgeist of the present era. Whilst offering a rich, dynamic and complex diversity of fascinating studies on contextualised masculinities drenched in local flavours, the editors manage to introduce these with an excellent and accessible framing of masculinity in relation to patriarchy. They also conclude deftly with a thoughtful synthesis of insights from the studies whilst proffering some hopeful reflections for work with men on masculinities to resist and transcend the toxic injustices of patriarchy. * Jerker Edstroem, Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, Programme Director for 'Countering Backlash: Reclaiming Gender Justice' * Patriarchy is sometimes presented as an overarching and somewhat abstract set of structures and processes of societal domination by men. Here, however, in this book patriarchy is very much about what happens in practice, and what happens in the everyday - how patriarchy is done. The writing is fast-paced, accessible and diverse, across countries, sites and subjects, in both senses. Patriarchy in Practice brings together diverse ethnographies written for a wide and non-specialist readership, and neatly organised and edited. In so doing, it makes a strong and grounded contribution to the current revival of interest in contemporary patriarchies and patriarchal masculinities in action. Read on and enjoy ! * Jeff Hearn, Professor, Hanken School of Economics, Finland and author of Men of the World *

Patriarchy in Practice is an excellent, welcome and sobering contribution to ethnographic scholarship on contemporary masculinities. It reflects a refreshing appreciation of the remarkable adaptability and resilience of patriarchy, and it feels attuned to the zeitgeist of the present era. Whilst offering a rich, dynamic and complex diversity of fascinating studies on contextualised masculinities drenched in local flavours, the editors manage to introduce these with an excellent and accessible framing of masculinity in relation to patriarchy. They also conclude deftly with a thoughtful synthesis of insights from the studies whilst proffering some hopeful reflections for work with men on masculinities to resist and transcend the toxic injustices of patriarchy. * Jerker Edstroem, Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, Programme Director for 'Countering Backlash: Reclaiming Gender Justice' *

Author Information

Nikki van der Gaag is former Director of Gender Justice and Women's Rights at Oxfam GB (2016 - 2019). She is now once again an independent consultant and writer who works primarily on gender, with a particular focus on girls and on masculinities. Her previous books include Feminism and Men (Zed, 2014) and the No-Nonsense Guide to Women's Rights (2008). Dan Nightingale is a Digital Anthropology PhD student at University College London, UK. Amir Massoumian is a Social Anthropology PhD student at SOAS University of London, UK.

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