Researching profeminist men’s narratives: Participatory methodologies in a postmodern frame

Postmodern feminism has important implications for understanding and promoting change in men’s lives, as well as women’s lives. In recent years I have been exploring the implications of the relationship between postmodernism and feminism for emancipatory practice with men. I have argued elsewhere that a recognition of differences between men is central for understanding men’s lives and for reconstructing men’s subjectivities and practices (Pease, 1999a). I have also argued that the postmodern notion of the discursive production of multiple subjectivities has considerable potential for providing guidance to men about how their subjectivities and practices have been constituted and how they can be transformed (Pease, 1999b).