Jeff Hearn, Professor in Gender Studies (Critical Studies on Men), Linköping University, Sweden, Professor of Management and Organisation, Hanken School of Economics, Finland, and Professor of Sociology, University of Huddersfield.
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Monday 20 February 2012
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6.00-7.00pm
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Wolfson Theatre, NAB.LG.01, New Academic Buliding
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Chair: Dr Marsha Henry (Gender Institute)
Open to all - no booking required. Followed by an informal drinks reception from 7.00pm in the Gender Institute (Columbia House).
Abstract
"Men" as a gendered category is now on many social, cultural and political agendas. How this has been framed has changed markedly over the last 35 years in many parts of the world. In this session I examine some of these changes, along with the complex relations between the diverse politics of men's gender-conscious activism, the development of explicitly gendered policy-making on men, and the establishment of the sub-field of critical studies on men and masculinities. In the last of these arenas a crucial issue is to what extent and in what ways studies on men and masculinities are critical, or not, and how they relate to wider feminist and gender debates and theorising.
This session draws on the just published 18-country collection, Men and Masculinities Worldwide: Transforming Men's Practices (edited with Elisabetta Ruspini, Bob Pease and Keith Pringle, 2011, Palgrave Macmillan), as well as more specific studies on Finland, Sweden, UK and the EU, for example, 'Framing 'men in feminism': Theoretical locations, local contexts and practical passings in men's gender-conscious positionings on gender equality and feminism', with Linn Egeberg Holmgren, Journal of Gender Studies, 18(4), 2009: 403-418; and 'Gendered and social hierarchies in problem representation and policy processes: 'Domestic violence' in Finland and Scotland', with Linda McKie, Violence Against Women: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal, 16(2), 2010: 136-158.
Biography
Jeff Hearn is Professor in Gender Studies (Critical Studies on Men), Linköping University, Sweden, Professor of Management and Organisation, Hanken School of Economics, Finland, and Professor of Sociology, University of Huddersfield.
An Academician in the Social Sciences, he was formerly Research Professor in the Social Sciences, Manchester University. His many books include: 'Sex' at 'Work' (1987/1995), Gender, Sexuality and Violence in Organizations (2001, both with Wendy Parkin), The Gender of Oppression (1987), Men in the Public Eye (1992), The Violences of Men (1998), Men as Managers, Managers as Men (1996), Information Society and the Workplace (2004), European Perspectives on Men and Masculinities (2006). Recent books include Managers Talk about Gender (2009, Edita), Sex, Violence and the Body (2010), Men and Masculinities Worldwide (2011, both Palgrave Macmillan), The Limits of Gendered Citizenship (2011, Routledge).
He is co-managing editor of Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality book series, Co-Director of GEXcel, the Linköping & Örebro Universities Centre of Gender Excellence; co-editor of Men and Masculinities; and has taken lead positions in national, Nordic and EU projects, including 14-country Social Problem of Men, and genSET Gender in Science project. Research interests include: men, gender, sexuality, violence, organisations, transnationalisation and postcolonialism. He has been involved in profeminist activism since the late 1970s and is a founding member of Profeministimiehet (Finland).