Men's Friendships as Feminist Politics? - Power, Intimacy, and Change (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)

This 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.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences
Release date:	November 2022
First published:	2022
Authors:	Klara Goedecke
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	198
Edition:	1st ed. 2022
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-111770-1
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Men's studies Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > Feminism Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General
LSN:	3-03-111770-0
Barcode:	9783031117701

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