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Record Nr.

UNINA9910624392503321

Autore

Goedecke Klara <1985->

Titolo

Men’s Friendships as Feminist Politics? : Power, Intimacy, and Change / / by Klara Goedecke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022

ISBN

9783031117718

9783031117701

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 pages)

Collana

Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences, , 2947-8790

Disciplina

305.42

302.340811

Soggetti

Men

Queer theory

Sex

Feminism

Feminist theory

Ethnology

Identity politics

Mens' Studies

Queer Studies

Gender Studies

Feminism and Feminist Theory

Politics and Gender

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-192) and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. Couples, Careers, and Friendships: Normative Friendship Temporalities -- 3. Talkative Men, Therapeutic Friendships -- 4. “I Hate Laddishness!” Political Friendships -- 5. Nice Friendships, Nice Interviews? -- 6. Conclusion: Friendship Politics as Feminist Politics?.

Sommario/riassunto

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.