Changing men: Masculinities in context

Segal, Lynne

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“…Messner (1993) concluded that the new aspect was that men at the time, at some level, had to deal with gender as a problematic construct rather than as a natural, taken for granted reality. Segal (1993) was frustrated over the fact that the change to a more gender-equal society was happening in slow motion. Donaldson (1993) was very skeptical of the suggestion that men were changing and that this new form of masculinity was leading to a more gender-equal society, pointing out that the change was only occurring on the surface, and Messner (1993) emphasized that a shift in the style of masculinity is not the same as a shift in power.…”

Section: Research On Men and Masculinitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Men do care! : A gender-aware and masculinity-informed contribution to caregiving scholarship

Wallroth

2016

Linköping Studies in Arts and Sciences

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In caregiving literature, it is often the female gender that has been the focus of attention, and in particular women's unpaid labor. Studies also tend to make comparisons between men's and women's caregiving, using men's caregiving experiences to show not only that women face greater burdens, but also that men's needs can be disregarded. This means that while gender analyses are not uncommon in the caregiving literature, gender tends to be equated with womanhood. The research problem that this dissertation addresses is therefore the gender bias that characterizes caregiving scholarship at present and the fact that this bias is impeding us from moving the debates on care and caregiving forward. The aim of the dissertation is twofold. Firstly, it attempts to contribute to the rectification of the gender bias in question by focusing on men's caregiving and answering the following research questions: What motivates men to provide care for their elderly parents? How do adult sons experience caregiving? What do adult sons think that care and caregiving are, i.e. what are their perspectives on care? Secondly, this dissertation also aims to explore whether a gender-aware and masculinity-informed perspective can be used to enhance our understanding of caregiving. Thus, through a phenomenological analysis of interviews with 19 caregiving adult sons and sons-in-law, this dissertation discusses how motives, experiences and perspectives, which have so far been interpreted as unique to women, are also matters that men talk about and consider important in caregiving. The dissertation argues therefore that much could be gained if we were to rectify the gender bias that characterizes the literature on family caregiving and explore caregiving men in the genderaware and masculinity-informed way that is lacking in this literature at present. Inspired by the debate within studies of masculinity, the dissertation argues that within the debate on care there is a hegemony of care which has so far tended to exclude men's perspectives on caregiving because literature on family caregiving has regarded women as the ideal caregivers. This dissertation shows that a gender-aware and masculinity-informed perspective on care can increase our understanding of family caregiving and contribute to the rectification of the gender bias that care research suffers from. Against this backdrop, it is proposed that caregiving men should not solely be regarded as empirically interesting. This is because they are an unexploited and theoretically profuse source of information about caregiving.

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Section: Research On Men and Masculinitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Men do care! : A gender-aware and masculinity-informed contribution to caregiving scholarship

Wallroth

2016

Linköping Studies in Arts and Sciences

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“…This is an important point and is mobilised to guard against theoretical complacency concerning the slow pace of change in hierarchical gender relations (cf. Segal, 1993).…”

Section: Men Masculinity and 'Non-traditional Work'mentioning

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Girls’ Jobs for the Boys? Men, Masculinity and Non‐Traditional Occupations

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Bagilhole

2002

Gender Work & Organization

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Occupational segregation by sex remains the most pervasive aspect of the labour market. In the past, most research on this topic has concentrated on explanations of women's segregation into low paid and low status occupations, or investigations of women who have crossed gender boundaries into men's jobs, and the potential impact on them and the occupations. In contrast, this article reports on a small scale, qualitative study of ten men who have crossed into what are generally defined as 'women's jobs'. In doing so, one of the impacts on them has been that they have experienced challenges to their masculine identity from various sources and in a variety of ways. The men's reactions to these challenges, and their strategies for developing and accommodating their masculinity in light of these challenges are illuminating. They either attempted to maintain a traditional masculinity by distancing themselves from female colleagues, and/or partially (re)constructed a different masculinity by identifying with their non-traditional occupations. This they did as often as they deemed necessary as a response to different forms of challenge to their gender identities from both men and women. Finally, the article argues that these responses work to maintain the men as the dominant gender, even in these traditionally defined 'women's jobs'.

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“…They tend to believe that fathers should also care through indirect involvement (Ishii-Kuntz 1993) and when directly involved they should, on top of caring, emphasize masculineoriented desires possibly making the so called "new fatherhood ideals" reflect a form of "reconstructed hegemonic masculinity" (Segal, 1993). The former suggests that fathers can offer paternal care being physical absent thus implying that fathers" psychological presence despite their frequent absence at home (IshiiKuntz, 1993) is not only because of the symbolic effects associated to fathers over the years, or mothers" efforts to threaten (discipline) children soliciting paternal authority, or caring the family through provision (material or non material) but there is possibly a kind of "caring" that is not visible.…”

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“…Other kinds of roles father assume while interacting with children? There are, for instance, some evidences suggesting (1) that caring does not necessarily require direct involvement (Kyte, 1996), (2) that the "new fatherhood ideals" still reflect a form of "reconstructed hegemonic masculinity" (Segal, 1993) implying, among other things, that direct paternal involvement can be used for reasons other than caring (e.g. for promoting masculine desires), (3) that fathers are psychologically present despite their frequent absence at home (Ishii-Kuntz, 1993;Catherine, 2000;Denise, 2007), (4) that fathers do have their own distinct ways of caring and the quality of father-child relationship should not be evaluated using mother-child interaction as a template (Day and Mackey, 1986), and (5) that such distinct ways of caring may involve fathers" development of indirect commitments to their children that are contingent upon the father-mother relationship (Furstenberg, 1991).…”

Section: Original Researchmentioning

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Paternal Involvement in Child- Rearing Activities: The Perspective of Adolescents in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Tefera¹

2015

Sci. Technol. Arts Res. J.

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Article InformationIn recognition of the need to widen the scope of fatherhood scholarship, this article centered on examining paternal involvement but in a socio-cultural context and developmental stage that has headed little attention in previous research. An attempt was made to investigate the nature of paternal involvement (ways, desires and roles) among adolescent students in Addis Ababa. Rating-type (N= 554) and forced-choice (N= 360) questionnaires were administered to secondary school (grades 9-12) students (ages 14-19 years). Results generally indicated that paternal involvement was multidimensional in the sense that adolescents considered direct and indirect ways, acting and capacity building roles and caring and masculineoriented desires of fathers" involvement with children. Significant differences and relationships were also documented between the two components of ways, roles, and desires. In fact, interactions between ways and roles, ways and desires, and roles and desires were all significant. Results were interpreted and implications were drawn against a backdrop of the respondents" developmental and socio-cultural backgrounds.

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Changing men: Masculinities in context

Cited by 92 publications

References 12 publications

Men do care! : A gender-aware and masculinity-informed contribution to caregiving scholarship

Men do care! : A gender-aware and masculinity-informed contribution to caregiving scholarship

Girls’ Jobs for the Boys? Men, Masculinity and Non‐Traditional Occupations

Paternal Involvement in Child- Rearing Activities: The Perspective of Adolescents in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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