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The politics of gendered emotions : disrupting men's emotional investment in privilege
This paper explores the implications of the neglect of emotions in critical masculinity studies and profeminist masculinity politics. This neglect in part results from feminist and profeminist critiques of the literature on emotional inexpressiveness as a tragedy for men that ignores male privilege and men's social power. To focus on men's emotions is seen by some profeminist commentators as psychologising men at the expense of sociological understandings of men's social power. However, in neglecting the place of emotions in men's lives, critical masculinity studies has overlooked the ways in which men's emotional attachment to privilege can perpetuate oppressive gender relations and male violence against women. By exploring men's emotional investment in unequal gender relations, the article outlines ways in which emotions can also be used as a catalyst to disrupt men's attachment to male privilege.
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Australian journal of social issuesVolume
47Issue
1Pagination
125 - 142Publisher
Australian Council of Social ServiceLocation
Strawberry Hills, N. S. W.ISSN
0157-6321eISSN
1839-4655Language
engPublication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal; C Journal articleCopyright notice
2012, Australian Council of Social ServiceUsage metrics
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