Forks in the Road of Men’s Gender Politics: Men’s Rights vs Feminist Allies
| Autor: | Michael A Messner |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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| Zdroj: | International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, Vol 5, Iss 2, Pp 6-20 (2016) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 2202-7998 2202-8005 |
| DOI: | 10.5204/ijcjsd.v5i2.301 |
| Popis: | How do men respond to feminist movements and to shifts in the gender order? In this paper, I introduce the concept of historical gender formation to show how shifting social conditions over the past forty years shaped a range of men’s organized responses to feminism. Focusing on the US, I show how progressive men reacted to feminism in the 1970s by forming an internally contradictory ‘men’s liberation’ movement that soon split into opposing anti-feminist and pro-feminist factions. Three large transformations of the 1980s and 1990s – the professional institutionalization of feminism, the rise of a postfeminist sensibility, and shifts in the political economy (especially deindustrialization and the rise of the neoliberal state) – generated new possibilities. I end by pointing to an emergent moderate men’s rights discourse that appeals to a postfeminist sensibility, and to an increasingly diverse base for men’s work to prevent violence against women. |
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