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Web resource:	http://gjss.org/sites/default/files/issues/chapters/papers/GJSS%20Vol%2012-3%20Peretz.pdf
Type:	Journal Article
Title:	Why study men and masculinities? A theorized research review
Authors:	Peretz, Tal
Keywords:	Men;Gender;Social conditions
Year:	2016
Citation:	Vol. 12, iss. 3 ; pp. 30-43
Notes:	Abstract: Feminist scholars have long made the important and valid critique that nearly all knowledge production not explicitly labeled feminist has implicitly studied men. Nonetheless, feminist scholars and activists are increasingly recognizing the importance of explicitly investigating men as gendered beings. This paper argues that gender-aware studies of men and masculinities are in fact necessary for an intersectional analysis of gender relations, and that a better understanding of masculinity is necessary to reduce men's perpetration of violence and increase support for gender justice. It provides five mutually reliant reasons why studies of men and masculinities are necessary for understanding gender relations and beneficial for feminist projects for gender justice: that superordinate categories tend to go unmarked and thereby uncritiqued; that gender is relational; that investigating the social construction of masculinity calls men's superordinate status into question; that masculinity is one of the primary social forces currently stalling egalitarian social change; and that investigating masculinity highlights contradictions and cleavages where masculinity can be most effectively attacked. Creative Commons
URI:	https://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/17472
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