The New Politics of Fatherhood Men's Movements and Masculinities /

• Main Author: Jordan, Ana (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences
• Subjects: Sociology.; Social groups.; Family.; Childhood.; Adolescence.; Gender Studies.; Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.; Childhood, Adolescence and Society.

This book makes a unique contribution to contemporary research into masculinities, men's movements, and fathers' rights groups. It examines the role of changing masculinities in creating equality and/or reinforcing inequality by analysing diverse men's movements, their politics, and t...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Gender, Social Movements and the Politics of Backlash
• 3. Masculinities in Crisis?
• 4. Feminist Men's Movements: The White Ribbon Campaign (UK) and the dilemmas of feminist men
• 5. Postfeminist Men's Movements: The Campaign Against Living Miserably and male suicide as "crisis"
• 6. Backlash Men's Movements Part 1: (Real) Fathers 4 Justice, bourgeois-rational and new man/new father masculinities
• 6. Backlash Men's Movements Part 2: (Real) Fathers 4 Justice, hypermasculinity, and fathers as superheroes
• 7. Conclusion.