Care-Free Masculinities in Ireland

Hanlon, Niall; Lynch, Kathleen

doi:10.1057/9780230338005_4

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“…CAGE placed relational demands on the state's social protection system to better account for unpaid care work and it asserted the importance of care relations in the priorities and functions of a state, which, tethered to an outdated breadwinner model, had left caring to the family, to charity and the market. Such a reorientation of welfare would mark a rupture with women's historical claiming of citizenship through their dependent role as wives to a male breadwinner (Lewis, 2000), and conversely would provide a caring identity for men previously captured as providers (Hanlon, 2018). In these conclusions, CAGE therefore echoes feminist economists’ arguments for pandemic recovery based on investment in care work and services (Heintz et al, 2021).…”

Section: Discussion: Problematising the Citizens’ Assembly Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Societally, Ireland reflects the global disparagement of paid and unpaid care work. From its inception, the Catholic-dominated Republic circumscribed the state's care responsibilities through article 41.2 of the Constitution, colloquially termed the 'woman in the home' clause, which positioned women as caregivers within the patriarchal family (Hanlon, 2018). Nation-wide care services were slow to develop and were largely provided as a charitable service by state/voluntary providers (Fischer, 2011;Lewis, 2000).…”

Section: Situating Ireland's Gendered Uncaring Statementioning

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Care full deliberation? Care work and Ireland's citizens’ assembly on gender equality

Loughnane

Kelleher

Edwards

2023

Critical Social Policy

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Ireland has become an international exemplar in the use of citizens’ assemblies to determine policy. Globally, deliberative fora seek to mitigate concerns of a democratic crisis, but they also may address the ‘care crisis’, where politics-as-normal seems unable, or unwilling, to address citizens’ care needs. Drawing on Tronto's (2013) call for a caring democracy in which citizens take their responsibilities to care with one another, this paper examines the potential for deliberative processes to deliberate ‘with’ as well as ‘about’ care and to expand current care work debates. Using Barnes’ (2012) ‘care full’ deliberation as an analytic framework, we document and interrogate the process and outcomes of Ireland's Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality (CAGE) (2020–21), particularly how it understood care work and responded to care workers’ needs. We then reflect on the potential for citizen deliberation to realise better caring outcomes for all citizens.

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Section: Discussion: Problematising the Citizens’ Assembly Processmentioning

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Section: Situating Ireland's Gendered Uncaring Statementioning

confidence: 99%

Care full deliberation? Care work and Ireland's citizens’ assembly on gender equality

Loughnane

Kelleher

Edwards

2023

Critical Social Policy

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“…In doing so, Thando is also reinforcing this deeply ingrained belief in society with his FP colleagues and the FP learners. Hanlon and Lynch (2011) posited that, for an equitable teaching system that embraces diverse sexualities, male FP teachers need to distance themselves from an essentialist stance when it comes to the conceptualisation of what constitutes care work. Further, male teachers need to allow themselves to be vulnerable to open up possibilities for deconstructing dominant and patriarchal hegemonic masculinities so they can take up masculinities that are caring and pro-femininity (Ratele, 2015).…”

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confidence: 99%

Reflecting on Sexuality Education in Teacher Education: Using a Life History Methodology of a Same-Sex Desiring Male Foundation Phase Teacher

Kagola

Notshulwana²

2022

Educ. res. soc. change.

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Foundation Phase (FP) classrooms are not immune to incidents directly related to sexuality. Sexuality education, which is part of the FP life skills curriculum, is an essential part of the holistic development of FP learners. Studies about FP sexuality education report that FP teachers' formal approach to sexuality education is often restrictive. In this article, we use life history methodology to explore a single case study of a same-sex desiring male FP teacher in the Eastern Cape, South Africa to make meaning of how incidental moments that relate to sexuality education are addressed. Applying a feminist post-structural lens, we discuss how the participant and the participant's colleagues implicitly perpetuate heteronormative discourses in their pedagogical approaches to the teaching of sexuality education. The topic of sexuality features in one South African university's FP teacher education curriculum with the intention of raising pre-service teacher awareness about FP sexuality education. This research allowed us to reflect on the redesign of this fourth-year FP life skills module and to reimage the learning experiences offered to FP pre-service teachers.

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“…The family has been traditionally understood as a female institution (Finch and Groves, 1983; Hanlon and Lynch, 2011; Hrženjak, 2007). On the contrary, the military has traditionally been understood as a typically gendered and masculine organization (Carreiras, 2010; Segal, 1995; Vuga Beršnak and Juvan, 2013a).…”

Section: The Family and The Militarymentioning

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Characteristics of pandemic work–life balance in Slovenian military families during the lockdown: Who has paid the highest price?

Beršnak

Humer

2021

Current Sociology

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In April 2020, a survey was conducted among Slovenian military families, being one of the first surveys to be carried out in the country after the outbreak of the pandemic. The military was labeled a crucial institution in the efforts to combat the SARS-CoV-2 virus and was appointed to various activities, leading to a considerable increase in its workload. The burden of care and unpaid work at that time also intensified, becoming shifted onto the military family, particularly civilian female spouses. The survey’s purpose was to measure how military families evaluated their success in balancing between working from home, household work, childcare, and home schooling during the pandemic lockdown. The risk factors were observed on the micro (i.e., lack of extended family support, institutional childcare, and school lockdown) and macro (i.e., military support, national support measures) social levels. The analysis reveals that when it comes to military families the greatest price has been paid by female civilian spouses. The number of children and their age influence parents’ self-evaluation of their success with work–life balance. The results show that big families and families with primary school children have been struggling the most during the lockdown. Surprisingly, dual-serving families felt the most successful.

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Care-Free Masculinities in Ireland

Cited by 9 publications

References 31 publications

Care full deliberation? Care work and Ireland's citizens’ assembly on gender equality

Care full deliberation? Care work and Ireland's citizens’ assembly on gender equality

Reflecting on Sexuality Education in Teacher Education: Using a Life History Methodology of a Same-Sex Desiring Male Foundation Phase Teacher

Characteristics of pandemic work–life balance in Slovenian military families during the lockdown: Who has paid the highest price?

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