{"title":"Men’s Violence Prevention and Peace Education: Drawing on Galtung to Explore the Plurality of Violence(s), Peace(s), and Masculinities","authors":"William W. McInerney, David Tim Archer","doi":"10.1177/1097184X221149989","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1097184X221149989","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines a concern that some programs engaging men in the prevention of violence against women use overly homogenized conceptions of violence. In response, the authors draw on their experience teaching men's violence prevention in North America and the UK and their background in peace studies to bring Johan Galtung’s influential peace and conflict frameworks into the men’s violence prevention context. It is argued a feminist-informed Galtungian approach can support existing men’s violence prevention by 1) incorporating heterogeneous conceptions of men’s direct, cultural, and structural violences; 2) introducing conceptions of positive and negative peaces; and 3) outlining different programmatic strategies through peacekeeping, peacemaking, and peacebuilding approaches. This article outlines how Galtung’s framework can help improve men’s violence prevention by providing an accessible, contextually adaptable, and analytically useful framework to support men in understanding violence, peace, and the interdependent relationships between violences, peaces, and peace-work in addressing violence against women.","PeriodicalId":47750,"journal":{"name":"Men and Masculinities","volume":"26 1","pages":"69 - 90"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46940907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Francine E. Darroch, J. Oliffe, G. Gonzalez Montaner, Jessica M Webb
{"title":"“I’m Trying to Be There for My Kids”: A Needs Analysis of Fathers Who Experience Health Inequities in Vancouver, Canada","authors":"Francine E. Darroch, J. Oliffe, G. Gonzalez Montaner, Jessica M Webb","doi":"10.1177/1097184X221149984","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1097184X221149984","url":null,"abstract":"To better understand the needs of fathers who experience health inequities, we individually interviewed fathers, mothers, and service providers about their perspectives of supports for men in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, one of the most disadvantaged groups in Canada. Using a gender lens, thematic analysis of transcribed interviews with three cohorts revealed the following themes: “we need a He-way”: Fathers arguing for men-friendly services; “I had to do all the hard work”: Mothers identifying relational impacts of fathers’ barriers to services; “there is nothing out there for them”: Service providers acknowledging the lack of father-focused programs. Findings highlight the need for, and challenges to creating accessible, gender specific, father focused programs and services to best support men and families within the complex contexts of experiencing significant health inequities. This work illustrates how gender-based analyses can guide strategies for health promotion programs that will ultimately support fathers, mothers, and their families.","PeriodicalId":47750,"journal":{"name":"Men and Masculinities","volume":"26 1","pages":"229 - 250"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46185225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Sharp, J. Oliffe, J. Bottorff, S. Rice, N. Schulenkorf, C. Caperchione
{"title":"Connecting Australian Masculinities and Culture to Mental Health: Men’s Perspectives and Experiences","authors":"P. Sharp, J. Oliffe, J. Bottorff, S. Rice, N. Schulenkorf, C. Caperchione","doi":"10.1177/1097184X221149985","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1097184X221149985","url":null,"abstract":"Masculinities and culture are intertwined and have significant implications for men’s mental health. This study aimed to explore influences of Australian masculinities and culture on men’s mental health. Five focus groups were conducted with men (N = 43) living in New South Wales, Australia. Three overarching themes were identified: (1) a history of strength and self-reliance: taketh as we are, she’ll be right, (2) social and geographical divides: surrounded by men but never actually connecting, and (3) male socialisation and generational dissidence: not getting the wisdom from the men that have gone before me. Participants’ perspectives and experiences offer a reference point and lens for understanding challenges and enhancing efforts to promote Australian men’s mental health. Gender transformative program strategies are proposed to promote men’s mental health and help-seeking.","PeriodicalId":47750,"journal":{"name":"Men and Masculinities","volume":"26 1","pages":"112 - 133"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65450223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Oliffe, M. Kelly, G. Gonzalez Montaner, Z. Seidler, J. Ogrodniczuk, D. Kealy, S. Rice
{"title":"Pathways and Patterns for Communication with Intimate Partners: Men’s Retrospectives After a Relationship Breakdown","authors":"J. Oliffe, M. Kelly, G. Gonzalez Montaner, Z. Seidler, J. Ogrodniczuk, D. Kealy, S. Rice","doi":"10.1177/1097184X221149988","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1097184X221149988","url":null,"abstract":"Effective communication is key to the quality of men’s intimate partner relationships. The current study examines men’s pathways and patterns for communication with intimate partners. Based on interviews with 47 Canadian and Australian participants (26–70-years-old; M = 40.87, SD = 10.59) who had experienced a relationship breakdown[s], three themes were derived: (a) Breaking through after breaking up, (b) Detailing deficiencies, and (c) Building skills and strategies. Breaking through after breaking up mapped men’s pathways in retrospectively evaluating and addressing their communication. Men’s self-work focussed on knowing themselves to more authentically communicate with partners. Detailing deficiencies included self-censoring characterized by men’s reticence to communicate their feelings for fear of conflict and/or the relationship ending. Building skills and strategies highlighted temporal dimensions of communication wherein men idealized regular formal check-ins with partners to discuss, and when necessary adjust the relationship. Connections between masculinities and men’s communication are discussed to guide tailored relationship programs for men.","PeriodicalId":47750,"journal":{"name":"Men and Masculinities","volume":"26 1","pages":"472 - 494"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44687310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Reviews: Designing Parental Leave Policy: The Norway Model and the Changing Face of Fatherhood","authors":"Manisha Mathews","doi":"10.1177/1097184X221148450","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1097184X221148450","url":null,"abstract":"departure from the traditional breadwinner role of fatherhood to a modern evolution of involved fatherhood. Although we are yet to see such cultural change globally, parental leave has a distinctly high uptake by fathers in Norway (2). The increased participation of fathers in childcare has been attributed to a father’s quota of parental leave that was introduced in Norway, which provided a fifteen-week father-only leave entitlement (7). In Designing Parental Leave Policy, Brandth and Kvande explore the reasons underpinning its success and investigate the extent to which the father’s quota has provided a work-family balance for fathers, supported the development of father-child relationships and contributed towards a marked shift from hegemonic masculinity to caring masculinity. Brandth and Kvande primarily argue that the provision of an individual right to leave for fathers has altered the external and internal perception of fatherhood to include a caring role. The policy design of a father-only leave entitlement has generated the external societal expectation that fathers undertake care work. Additionally, many fathers who were home alone on leave had internally developed greater competency as carers and particularly acquired a need-oriented care practice where they could read their child in order to identify and meet their needs. Relying upon the data obtained from a series of interviews conducted with fathers in the 1980s before the introduction of the father’s quota, in the 1990s after its initial introduction as a 4-week entitlement and in the 2000s after being extended to a 10-week entitlement, Part 1 reveals the importance of the design of the father’s quota in increasing paternal involvement in childcare. Unlike shared parental leave which provided parents with the option to decide between themselves who could take leave in 16 or 26-week periods, fathers encountered a greater sense of entitlement to the father’s quota as the leave scheme was s","PeriodicalId":47750,"journal":{"name":"Men and Masculinities","volume":"26 1","pages":"156 - 159"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46810192","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood: Coming of Age in the Sixties","authors":"J. Ibson","doi":"10.1177/1097184x221148206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1097184x221148206","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47750,"journal":{"name":"Men and Masculinities","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47590071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hockey Dads, Party Boys, and Devoted Players? Digital Representations of Men and Masculinities amongst Norwegian and Swedish Ice Hockey Players","authors":"A. Tjønndal, F. Wågan, Daniel Alsarve","doi":"10.1177/1097184X221148205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1097184X221148205","url":null,"abstract":"Men’s elite ice hockey is one of the most commercialised, popular, and patriarchal sports in the global North. With reference to the scarce corpus of ice hockey research from non-American countries, in this article we examine the online portrayals of men who play professional ice hockey in two clubs in Norway and Sweden. We pose two research questions and theoretically informed hypothetical assumptions associated with them that we evaluate with the overall aim of broadening the empirical scope of critical studies on men and masculinities in ice hockey. Using a quantitative content analysis, we compare and cross-analyse the online representations of men and masculinities by investigating the Instagram posts of 21 players from Frölunda HC and Vålerenga Hockey. The results demonstrate the importance of a situational and contextual understanding of hegemonic masculinity and broaden the scope of the “ice hockey playing man” that is often perceived as a narrow stereotype.","PeriodicalId":47750,"journal":{"name":"Men and Masculinities","volume":"26 1","pages":"134 - 157"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45227102","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Brown and Gay in LA: The Lives of Immigrant Sons","authors":"Alexandra Eleazar","doi":"10.1177/1097184X221148207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1097184X221148207","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47750,"journal":{"name":"Men and Masculinities","volume":"26 1","pages":"647 - 648"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43706759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transamorous Misogyny: Masculinity, Heterosexuality, and Cis Men’s Sexist Desires for Trans Women","authors":"B. A. Robinson","doi":"10.1177/1097184X221148208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1097184X221148208","url":null,"abstract":"Little sociological research has examined how cis people might be accepting or not of trans people on an intimate level. To begin to fill this gap, the author analyzes over 200 online discussion board posts and threads on Reddit by cis heterosexual men who discuss their romantic and sexual desires for trans women. The author coins the concept of transamorous misogyny to capture the paradoxical process of how cis heterosexual men’s desires for trans women is in and through their contempt of all women. Specifically, the author shows how the cis heterosexual men expand ideas of sexual identity as attraction toward gender expression. However, the men expand the definition of heterosexuality in ways that construct trans women as hyper-feminine, hyper-submissive, and as not real women. The men also discursively work to reassert their cis heterosexual masculinity through discussing how trans women are better than cis women. Ultimately, transamorous misogyny works to devalue all women and allows cis heterosexual men to desire trans women in ways that help the men invest in their own cis heterosexual masculinity.","PeriodicalId":47750,"journal":{"name":"Men and Masculinities","volume":"26 1","pages":"356 - 375"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41856176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Race, Class, and Masculinities in a South African Primary School","authors":"Diloshini Govender, Deevia Bhana","doi":"10.1177/1097184X221143135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1097184X221143135","url":null,"abstract":"Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, this article examines how 8–9-year-old South African boys construct and negotiate heterosexual masculinities in the primary school. Situated within a racially diverse schooling context comprised of a mixed class of middle and low income Indian and Black boys, we offer insights into how race and class structures intersect with masculinities to create hierarchies of power as boys navigate the pressures of compulsory heterosexuality. Boys’ investment in the male provider role and in aspiring to material shows of wealth—such as wearing expensive clothing—as key ways to engender heterosexual relationships, was also nuanced by race and class. While such practices defined boys’ masculinities, failure to conform to normative masculine behaviour subjected them to homophobic teasing thus pointing to the regulatory mechanisms through which heterosexual masculinity was policed. The study contributes to the growing field of young masculinities in South Africa as we consider its local manifestations and gendered performances.","PeriodicalId":47750,"journal":{"name":"Men and Masculinities","volume":"26 1","pages":"624 - 644"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41327391","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}