Caring Masculinities – gesellschaftliche Transformationspotentiale fürsorglicher Männlichkeiten?

Heilmann, Andreas; Scholz, Sylka

doi:10.1515/fs-2017-0036

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“…Inclusive masculinity indicates a ‘softer’, more progressive, less homophobic expression of masculinity. Others have focused on the concept of caring masculinity as a changing expression of masculinity based on nurturing and care-giving roles for men and as a form of men’s engagement in gender equality (see for example Elliott, 2016; Gärtner et al, 2007; Hanlon, 2012; Heilmann and Scholz, 2017; Langvasbråten and Teigen, 2006; Scambor et al, 2013). Caring masculinity is masculinity that ‘reject[s] domination and its associated traits and embrace[s] values of care such as positive emotion, interdependence, and relationality’ (Elliott, 2016).…”

Section: Problematising Masculinities and Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Negotiations between progressive and ‘traditional’ expressions of masculinity among young Australian men

Elliott

2018

Journal of Sociology

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This article draws on feminist theory and critical studies on men and masculinities to explore expressions of masculinity among young, relatively privileged men between the ages of 20 and 29 in Australia. Narrative interviews conducted with these men in 2014 revealed assertions of progressive attitudes alongside reworkings of more hegemonic expressions of masculinity. In particular, participants demonstrated distancing from ideas of protest masculinity and spoke of iterations of softer masculinities in relation to their work lives and friendships. At the same time, they borrowed or co-opted aspects of a perceived version of protest masculinity, such as ‘hard work for hard bodies’. Through such practices and beliefs, participants could juggle contradictory requirements of masculinity in late modernity and perpetuate more privileged modes of masculinity. This article argues that sociological attention must continue to be focused on ongoing, privileged expressions of masculinity, even as encouraging changes emerge in late modern, post-industrial societies.

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Section: Problematising Masculinities and Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Negotiations between progressive and ‘traditional’ expressions of masculinity among young Australian men

Elliott

2018

Journal of Sociology

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“…Active or involved fatherhood can be connected to changing expressions of masculinity that give value to nurturing and caregiving, which have been conceptualized as “caring masculinity” (Elliott, 2016⁠; Gärtner et al., 2007⁠; Hanlon, 2012⁠; Heilmann & Scholz, 2017⁠; Miller, 2017⁠; Scambor et al., 2014⁠; Scholz and Heilmann, 2019). Drawing on feminist ethics of care and critical masculinity theory, Elliot theorizes caring masculinities as a form of alternative masculinity that involves the rejection of domination with its associated traits and the “integration of values of care, such as positive emotion, interdependence, and relationality, into masculine identities” (Elliott, 2016, p. 241).…”

Section: Changing Masculinities Postfeminism and Gender Change In Org...mentioning

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“…Some empirical evidence suggests that involved fathers who modify their paid employment in “some demonstrable ways to their family responsibilities” can be seen as proponents of change (Ranson, 2012, p. 749). Other authors encourage a critical perspective, warning against a possible incorporation of care practices of involved fathering into hegemonic masculinity (Hearn et al., 2012⁠; Heilmann & Scholz, 2017⁠; Madrid, 2017). Fathers would incorporate only certain features of involved fatherhood without challenging their work‐centered conduct of life (Madrid, 2017).…”

Section: Changing Masculinities Postfeminism and Gender Change In Org...mentioning

confidence: 99%

New fathers, ideal workers? New players in the field of father‐friendly work organizations

Balan

Brink

2022

Gender Work & Organization

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This article explores novel forms of proactive support for fathers in organizations and analyzes how newly instituted organizational promoters of father-friendliness in Germany (organizational consultants, fathers' representatives, and fathers' networks) legitimize and strengthen organizational acceptance of fathers' use of family-friendly workplace arrangements. Bringing together the notions of organizational masculinity, the ideal worker norm, and postfeminism, the paper focuses on caring formations of postfeminist masculinity at work and how they contribute to gender change in organizations. The analysis shows that organizational promoters construct father-friendliness in three ways (I) by constructing a new, "caring" organizational masculinity, (II) by creating organizational value for care-related practices, (III) by framing father-friendliness as a prerequisite for gender equality. Our theoretical argument is that configurations of positive masculinities are possible within a postfeminist culture, and they produce incremental yet limited gender change through a reshaped organizational masculinity and a reframed "ideal worker" within organizations. The study of a rather unique group of change agents in organizations shows how additional offerings for fathers might contribute to changing gendered assumptions about care in organizations.

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“…However, as feminist movements intensified in the late twentieth century, feminist research posited that unequal gender dispositions were due to geographical and social experiences that were translated through various patriarchal systems of power, resources, responsibility and rights (Heilmann and Scholz, 2017;Kaufman, 1987). The feminist counteraction argued that gender was rather socially constructed with gender identities created, influenced and performed within socio-cultural parameters defined over space and time (Butler, 1990;Mikkola, 2008).…”

Section: Social Construction Of Masculinities: Power Relations and Ge...mentioning

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Making Masculinities on the Street

2021

Boyhood Studies

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Raewyn Connell’s seminal texts, including Masculinities (1995), The Men and the Boys (2000), and others have contributed to a nuanced understanding of masculinities as both contextual and relational, including gendered power relations, division of labor, emotional relations, and symbolism. This article seeks to extend Connell’s approach by using this nuanced lens of masculinities to examine the lives of boys living on the streets of a city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The article highlights the experiences of everyday relationships over three years for 19 street boys, aged 13–18, and the role of city spaces in their lives. It suggests that the spatiality and temporality of street boys’ relationships shape their masculine practices and identities, as played out in their everyday interactions with each other and with girls, women, and men as part of their daily survival. A mosaic of street masculinities emerges, that is both fluid and complex, shedding light on previously unexplored masculinities in an understudied group and part of the world.

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Caring Masculinities – gesellschaftliche Transformationspotentiale fürsorglicher Männlichkeiten?

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Negotiations between progressive and ‘traditional’ expressions of masculinity among young Australian men

Negotiations between progressive and ‘traditional’ expressions of masculinity among young Australian men

New fathers, ideal workers? New players in the field of father‐friendly work organizations

Making Masculinities on the Street

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