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Through the latter half of the twentieth century, the commodification of men’s lifestyles has grown apace, such that men’s lifestyles in the global North are routinely sold for the various ways the...

This book review on Masculinities Under Neoliberalismedited by Andrea Cornwall, Frank G. Karioris and Nancy Lindisfarne points to the diversity of experiences by working class men under neoliberalism in different locations around the globe and critically evaluates the theoretical approaches used.

Illustration: University of Manchester; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZkTrZJ4AaE. It is with very great sadness that I write on the recent death on 17 June 2020 of David H. J. Morgan, Professor ...

Illustration: Marina Hughson public CV; https://sefem.org/. It is with tremendous sadness that I am writing of the death of Marina Hughson on 6 June 2020, following a short illness. Marina was a so...

Already in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Jeff Hearn was developing Critical Studies on Men and Masculinities together with R.W. [now Raewyn] Connell (1983) and scholars such as Carrigan, Connell,...

This article reflects on the research project, ‘Engaging South African and Finnish youth towards new traditions of non-violence, equality and social well-being’, funded by the Finnish and South African national research councils, in the context of wider debates on research, projects and transnational processes. The project is located within a broader analysis of research projects and projectization (the reduction of research to separate projects), and the increasing tendencies for research to be framed within and as projects, with their own specific temporal and organizational characteristics. This approach is developed further in terms of different understandings of research across borders: international, comparative, multinational and transnational. Special attention is given to differences between research projects that are in the Europe and the EU, and projects that are between the global North and the global South. The theoretical, political and practical challenges of the North-South research project are discussed.

Dialoguing across national borders and specifically global North–South centres and margins has increasingly been viewed as a way to enhance critical and feminist studies and engagement with men and ...

Gender relations and gendered power relations are major defining features of science and technology. This article addresses the question of how to understand gender, and considers their various implications for science and technology. Gender and gender relations can be understood as operating and as relevant to science and technology at several levels: who does science and technology; how science and technology are organized; and the construction of knowledge in science and technology. We review five underlying formulations that inform both policy interventions and theorizing around gender and science - gender based on sex; masculinity/femininity and sex roles; categoricalism, structure and plural structures; poststructuralist, discursive and deconstructive approaches; the material-discursive. Original Publication: Jeffery Hearn and Liisa Husu, Understanding Gender: Some Implications for Science and Technology, 2011, ISR. Interdisciplinary science review, (36), 2, 103-113. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/030801811X13013181961301 Copyright: Maney Publishing http://www.maney.co.uk/ EU FP7 genSET

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) afford new possibilities for complex interactions among young people. An Internet user can be both a consumer (receiver) and a producer (sender) of mediated communication, asynchronously or simultaneously—such as someone who both uploads and watches video clips on YouTube (von Feilitzen, 2009). “And between these two extremes—the reception and sender roles— the user can be interacting or participating to different extents, for example, in games and in communities owned, maintained and copywrited by someone else” (von Feilitzen, 2009, p. 36). Communication and socializing in virtual online and real offline life through ICTs provides new dimensions to young peoples’ “identity experiments and identity formation” (p. 38). As discussed by Wellman (2001), the “social affordances of computerized communication networks” provide youth with many possibilities for new forms of production and consumption of violence in and through media technology. In this Commentary we aim to outline some important, yet relatively underdeveloped, aspects of research that connect new media, violence, and young people.

Femininity at Work is an impressive and absorbing study of gender and labour in a hospital, with a special focus on the nurses and what might be called ‘nurse femininity’. Like many works of signif...

This essay reflects on some specific questions posed by the organizers of the Past, Present, Future conference held at Ume University, Sweden, in June 2007 to the keynote speakers on their personal experiences of the influences, inspirations, challenges, and problems in and around Women's/Gender Studies over the last 30 years. It extends the notion of “the personal is political” to: the personal is work is political is theoretical. It also critically reflects on continuities and discontinuities in women's studies, (pro)feminism, “men” and my selves. Four kinds of (spheres of) activity and experience (the personal, work, the political, the theoretical) are considered in relation to four social spaces, social sites, or social institutional formations (in this context, primarily: selves, “men”, feminism/profeminism, women's/gender studies).

This article argues for greater clarity in researching transnational organizations and management, and the need for gendered multi‐level theory and gendered multi‐actor analysis. It examines different understandings and conceptualizations of ‘the transnational’ in studying transnational organizations and management, and their implications for understanding and conceptualizing the ‘management of cohesion’. In so doing, three conceptual and theoretical questions are considered: what are the major meanings of ‘the transnational’ in studying transnational organizations and management? What are the major different disciplinary frameworks in studying transnational organizations and management? What are the major epistemological debates in studying transnational organizations and management? Particular emphasis is placed on: the field of studies on transnational organizations and management; transnational research projects on transnational organizations and management; and the lives of transnational researchers....

This article examines the possibility and challenges of carrying out research, especially qualitative and ethnographically-orientated research, into areas such as gender, disability, ethnicity and racialization, without the researcher having direct experience of those specific social divisions and oppressions. Discussion of these questions is framed by four differential understandings of the concept of ‘otherness’ and linked with debates in the areas of research methodology, epistemology, ontology and research practices. Issues of experience, ‘standpoint’ and participation are specifically focused on. The resulting discussion leads to the conclusion that in ‘researching others’ attention has to be paid to historical context and to the maintenance of a critical relation to the research topic. A sustaining focus on the self-reflexivity of the researcher as author and the continual interrogation of the social bases of knowledge, together with a detail understanding of political agendas, are also important. In paying attention to these aspects of research, materialism and critical discourse analysis are to be seen as part of the same broad socio-political project rather than as opposing and mutually exclusive perspectives.

Though the study of men and masculinities has always been part of Women's Studies, recent Finnish studies on men have often developed without explicit attention to gender relations. In a Nordic context, Finnish studies on men have been relatively neglected. In this article we provide a concise review of Finnish research on men, including special reference to men's relations to home and work, men's violences, and the social exclusion of men. We present a synthetic account of the recent development of these studies and a critique of the field, and suggest some ways forward in future studies.

This article addresses the relationship of women's studies, gender research and men. In particular I ask the question: What are the implications of recent critical studies on men, for women's studies and gender research? I first outline some of the ways in which the social category of “men” has been taken for granted in the social sciences, and some of the broad features of critical studies on men. The implications of these studies are then examined, first in terms of the different political positions and discursive practices that may be adopted in studying men; second, the problematicizing and rethinking of research methods and methodologies; third, the kind of “results” of empirical research, and particularly the complexity of power relations; and fourth, the construction and possible transformation of academic disciplines ‐ including women's studies, traditional malestream disciplines, and interdisciplinary work. The article concludes with a brief discussion of issues that need future attentio...

Throughout the history of social work practitioners and educators have been concerned with the plight of disadvantaged and oppressed people. This paper is concerned with the complexities of educating in the classroom for anti-oppressive and anti-discriminatory social work practice as it has evolved since the mid/late 1980s. The meaning of anti-discriminatory and anti-oppressive practice will first be outlined, then, consideration will be given to two main problematic areas which contribute to the complexities and difficulties of teaching this approach to social work practice

Viz is the popular cultural magazine. This article addresses its significance for men, as its major purchasers and readers. A number of masculinist narratives are identified: conforming men/confirming masculinity; cautious men/calculating masculinity; contrary men/contradictory masculinities; courting men/comforting masculinity. The deeper structures of the text are also examined by an analysis of anal, testicular and buttockic discourses. The intertwining of these discourses is displayed in the reproduction of the parthenogenetic myth, in which men are the reproducers of each other and women are constructed as disposable. Viz thus appeals to an overwhelming male narcissism.

It sometimes comes as a surprise to some people to learn that the study of men and masculinities has always been part of Women’s Studies (Hanmer 1990). That much is not new: the “man problem” has always � gured alongside the more publicly pronounced “woman problem”. This has been clear in theAnglo-American world, but “men” have also necessarily been a central part of the analysis in NordicWomen’s Studies.

(1986). Women, Men, and Leadership: A Critical Review of Assumptions, Practices, and Change in the Industrialized Nations. International Studies of Management & Organization: Vol. 16, Women in Management Worldwide, pp. 33-60.