Overview
- Enables an intersectional analysis of men's friendship with focus on class, race, age, and sexuality
- Integrates queer theory, feminist sociology, and poststructuralist perspectives
- Connects the context of Sweden to developments in the wider, Western world
Part of the book series: Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences (GSSS)
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About this book
This book discusses men’s friendships in relation to queer, discursive, and intersectional feminist theories. It analyses stories of intimacy, touch, hugs, and conversations, connecting these with current discussions within feminism and critical masculinity studies on “new” men, men’s political activism, and how friendships are lived and conceptualised in relation to heteronormative relationship ideals. Drawing on individual and dyadic interviews with middle-class Swedish men, all engaged in or sympathetic to feminist issues in some sense, this volume shows that Swedish gender equality ideologies as well as feminist, therapeutic, neo-liberal, and individualist discourses prevalent in the Western world structured the men’s friendships and their engagement with gender politics. Chapters cover friendship temporalities, gendered friendship ideals, friendship as men’s politics, and friendship as performed in interaction. Bridging the literatures of feminist research and friendship, the author points to tensions and contradictions in pro-feminist men’s political projects and in contemporary masculine positions.
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“I would highly recommend this book, which offers a distinctive, engaging and critical analysis of male friendships. Drawing on in-depth interviews with men discussing their relationships, a discursive approach generates fresh insights on a range of topics, including temporalities, therapeutic experiences and gender politics. This book will be of interest to masculinities scholars as well as those working in the field of interpersonal relationships.” (Brendan Gough, Professor of Social Psychology, Leeds Beckett University, UK)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Men’s Friendships as Feminist Politics?
Book Subtitle: Power, Intimacy, and Change
Authors: Klara Goedecke
Series Title: Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11771-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-11770-1Published: 30 October 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-11773-2Published: 31 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-11771-8Published: 29 October 2022
Series ISSN: 2947-8782
Series E-ISSN: 2947-8790
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 198
Topics: Gender Studies, Queer Studies, Cultural Studies, Social Philosophy, Ethnology, Politics and Gender