Editors:
- Provides a multicultural perspective on gender equality and traditional masculinity
- Explores how political institutions can challenge dominant gendered power structures
- Emphasizes practical, interdisciplinary approaches to real-world situations
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Among the topics discussed:
- Reimagining masculinities, their everyday practice and practical interventions
- Towards a feminist theory of male rape
- Political implications of challenging men’s everyday practices through domestic violence primary prevention work
- Men as allies: a case study of White Ribbon Australia
Masculine Power and Gender Equality: Masculinities as Change Agents provides valuable insight into strategies for re-imagining male-dominated power structures and promoting gender equality.
Editors and Affiliations
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University of Greenwich, London, UK
Russell Luyt
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University of Koblenz-Landau, Landau, Germany
Kathleen Starck
About the editors
Kathleen Starck is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany. Her research interests include gender studies, Cold War cultures, postcolonial studies, popular culture, contemporary drama as well as post-socialism. She recently published Of Treason, God and Testicles. Political Masculinities in British and American Films of the Early Cold War (C-S-P, 2016) and co-edited with Birgit Sauer A Man’s World? Political Masculinitiesin Literature and Culture (C-S-P, 2014), is founder of the research network “Political Masculinities” and has been organising international conferences on political masculinities since 2012.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Masculine Power and Gender Equality: Masculinities as Change Agents
Editors: Russell Luyt, Kathleen Starck
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35162-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-35161-8Published: 04 March 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-35164-9Published: 04 March 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-35162-5Published: 03 March 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 203
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Gender Studies, Psychosocial Studies