03777nam 22007575 450 991062439250332120251009103209.09783031117718(electronic bk.)978303111770110.1007/978-3-031-11771-8(MiAaPQ)EBC7127682(Au-PeEL)EBL7127682(CKB)25219359400041(DE-He213)978-3-031-11771-8(EXLCZ)992521935940004120221029d2022 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMen’s Friendships as Feminist Politics? Power, Intimacy, and Change /by Klara Goedecke1st ed. 2022.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2022.1 online resource (209 pages)Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences,2947-8790Print version: Goedecke, Klara Men's Friendships As Feminist Politics? Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2022 9783031117701 Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-192) and index.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?.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.Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences,2947-8790MenQueer theorySexFeminismFeminist theoryEthnologyIdentity politicsMens' StudiesQueer StudiesGender StudiesFeminism and Feminist TheoryEthnologyPolitics and GenderMen.Queer theory.Sex.Feminism.Feminist theory.Ethnology.Identity politics.Mens' Studies.Queer Studies.Gender Studies.Feminism and Feminist Theory.Ethnology.Politics and Gender.305.42302.340811Goedecke Klara1985-1345675MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ9910624392503321Men's friendships as feminist politics3071461UNINA