Caregiving Masculinities: An Exploratory Analysis

Hanlon, Niall

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“…Various empirical studies have demonstrated that men report experiencing fewer positive emotions, such as affection, love and joy, and fewer negative emotions, such as fear (McGill 1985;Duncomb & Marsden 1993;Brody 1999;Galasinski 2004;Hanlon 2009). Men's difficulty in expressing emotions is seen to have a number of adverse personal and social consequences for men's intimacy with women, their capacity for nurturant fathering, their friendships with other men, and for themselves (Pease 2002a).…”

Section: Revisiting Men's Emotional Inexpressivenessmentioning

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The politics of gendered emotions: disrupting men's emotional investment in privilege

Pease¹

2012

Aust J Social Issues

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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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Section: Revisiting Men's Emotional Inexpressivenessmentioning

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The politics of gendered emotions: disrupting men's emotional investment in privilege

Pease¹

2012

Aust J Social Issues

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“…Men who are managers and who are primary carers can also experience conflicts over care in greedy work organizations (Grummell et al. , 2009b; Hanlon, 2009). However, given that most men only do unpaid care work in households when there is no woman available or qualified to do it (Coltrane and Galt, 2000), and that men tend to enter care‐related occupations such as social work and teaching by finding and settling in to them, rather than seeking them (Simpson, 2004), men remain disproportionately absent from caring work across many different levels of society (Cross and Bagilhole, 2002; Lupton, 2006; Lynch et al.…”

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Crafting the Elastic Self? Gender and Identities in Senior Appointments in Irish Education

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Grummell

Lynch

2010

Gender, Work &Amp; Organization

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This article considers the impact of new managerial reform on the recruitment and retention of women into senior management posts across the Irish education sector. In Ireland as elsewhere, the rhetoric of gender equality permeates new managerial reforms. Yet our data suggest that an emphasis on performativity and an intense commitment to paid work consolidates masculinist management cultures disguised through the ideology of choice. This works to the detriment of women, especially those with caring responsibilities. Drawing on studies of 23 top‐level educational appointments in primary, secondary and higher education, we show how the relentless crafting of an elastic self is required for both those who remain in management positions in education and those who seek them.

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“…1996) and some ‘indirect resistance’ to maternal employment was evident (Whelan and Fahey 1994), by 2002 there had been a decline in support for the gendered division of labour and in particular, the male breadwinner role, as evident from a decline in those agreeing with the statement ‘A man’s job is to earn money, a woman’s job is to look after the home and family’. However the limited research available on Irish masculinities, shows that the male breadwinner role continues to be important to Irish men (Goodwin 2002) and restricts their participation in caring and other unpaid work in the home (Hanlon 2009). Analysis of ISSP data shows no evidence of a backlash against women’s employment (O’Sullivan 2007b).…”

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Onwards and Upwards? Gender and Work in Ireland

O’Sullivan

2012

Sociology Compass

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It can be argued that the Irish workforce has been revolutionised over the past 25 years, as married women entered the world of paid work in increasing numbers, bolstering the female participation rate. There have also been changes in gender roles and gender role attitudes over the period. This review will present sociological research analysing this major social change, including research that places the Irish case in a comparative European and international context. The review will mirror the main foci of the field, paying particular attention to research on gender role attitudes, occupational segregation and unpaid work. The gendering of the Irish workforce has been a complex and uneven process, involving continuities as well as changes. Overall, the sexual division of labour remains a key feature of paid and unpaid work in Ireland, and the concept has considerable explanatory power in relation to persistent gender inequalities.

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Caregiving Masculinities: An Exploratory Analysis

Cited by 37 publications

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The politics of gendered emotions: disrupting men's emotional investment in privilege

The politics of gendered emotions: disrupting men's emotional investment in privilege

Crafting the Elastic Self? Gender and Identities in Senior Appointments in Irish Education

Onwards and Upwards? Gender and Work in Ireland

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