Male Feminism

Heath, Stephen

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“…A central tenet of feminism holds that gender relations are power relations, which implies that any improvement in the position of women must, in a sense, be 'off-set' by a reduction of the power and influence wielded by men (Segal, 1990). Heath (1987) has argued that feminism "makes things unsafe for men, unsettles assumed positions [and] undoes given identities" (pg. 6 -see also Hearn, 1999).…”

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Jekyll and Hyde: Men's Constructions of Feminism and Feminists

Edley

Wetherell

2001

Feminism & Psychology

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Research and commentary on men's responses to feminism has demonstrated the range of ways in which men have mobilised both against and for feminist principles. This paper argues that further analyses of men's responses require a sophisticated theory of discourse acknowledging the fragmented and contradictory nature of representation. A corpus of men's talk on feminism and feminists was studied to identify the pervasive patterns in men's accounting and regularities in rhetorical organisation. Material from two samples of men was included: a sample of white middle-class 17-18 year old school students and a sample of 60 interviews with a more diverse sample of older men aged 20 to 64. Two interpretative repertoires of feminism and feminists were identified. These set up a 'Jekyll and Hyde' binary and positioned feminism along with feminists very differently as reasonable versus extreme and monstrous. Both repertoires tended to be deployed together and the paper explores the ideological and interactional consequences of typical deployments along with the identity work accomplished by the men as they positioned themselves in relation to these.

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Jekyll and Hyde: Men's Constructions of Feminism and Feminists

Edley

Wetherell

2001

Feminism & Psychology

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“…By analyzing these responses we can begin to see why the task of locating men in feminist leisure studies has largely stalled. Heath (1987) suggested that men respond to feminism based on either fear and or desire. Based on my own observations over the past decade, as both a leisure studies student and academic, and through my formal and informal interactions in the field, I would suggest that these two categories should be expanded into the following four response types: defensive justifiers, gatekeepers, political tokenists, and sensitive empathizers.…”

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Wolves Among Sheep? The Role of Men in a Feminist Leisure Studies

Lyons

2006

Leisure Sciences

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“…Hence, Stephen Heath (1987) notoriously characterizes male feminism as "impossible" (p. 1). Richard Schmitt (2001) claims because of their experience, men cannot be "fully fledged feminists" (p. 403).…”

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Deconstructing the Experiential Bar

Ashe

2004

Men and Masculinities

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This article revisits the issue of male experience and its possible relationship to gender politics. Traditionally, feminism has viewed male experience as representing a bar to the development of feminist knowledge and consciousness. This conceptualization of male experience continues to inform the contemporary debate on male feminism. The article argues that this experiential bar emerges from a theorization of male experience as singular, fixed, and organic. Challenging this conceptualization, the article retheorizes male experience as a diverse, shifting, and contested category that produces different political outcomes. Through an analysis of men's group discourse, the article illustrates how particular interpretations of male experience produce both feminist and antifeminist effects. It concludes that feminism needs to examine male experience as a multifaceted category that can act as the material upon which male feminist resistance operates.

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Male Feminism

Cited by 23 publications

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Jekyll and Hyde: Men's Constructions of Feminism and Feminists

Jekyll and Hyde: Men's Constructions of Feminism and Feminists

Wolves Among Sheep? The Role of Men in a Feminist Leisure Studies

Deconstructing the Experiential Bar

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