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The Politics of Gendered Emotions: Disrupting Men’s Emotional Investments in Privilege
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Pease, B, The Politics of Gendered Emotions: Disrupting Men's Emotional Investments in Privilege, Australian Journal of Social Issues, 47, (1) pp. 125-140. ISSN 0157-6321 (2012) [Refereed Article]
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DOI: doi:10.1002/j.1839-4655.2012.tb00238.x
Abstract
This paper explores the implications of the neglect of emotions in critical
masculinity studies and profeminist masculinity politics. This neglect in part
results from feminist and profeminist critiques of the literature on emotional
inexpressiveness as a tragedy for men that ignores male privilege and men’s
social power. To focus on men’s emotions is seen by some profeminist
commentators as psychologising men at the expense of sociological
understandings of men’s social power. However, in neglecting the place of
emotions in men’s lives, critical masculinity studies has overlooked the ways
in which men’s emotional attachment to privilege can perpetuate oppressive
gender relations and male violence against women. By exploring men’s
emotional investment in unequal gender relations, the article outlines ways in
which emotions can also be used as a catalyst to disrupt men’s attachment to
male privilege.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | men’s emotions, emotional inexpressiveness, privilege, pedagogy of discomfort |
Research Division: | Studies in Human Society |
Research Group: | Social Work |
Research Field: | Social Work not elsewhere classified |
Objective Division: | Law, Politics and Community Services |
Objective Group: | Community Service (excl. Work) |
Objective Field: | Gender and Sexualities |
UTAS Author: | Pease, B (Professor Bob Pease) |
ID Code: | 102538 |
Year Published: | 2012 |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 9 |
Deposited By: | Social Sciences |
Deposited On: | 2015-08-27 |
Last Modified: | 2015-09-29 |
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