Masculist Groups in Poland: Aids of Mainstream Antifeminism

Wojnicka, Katarzyna

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“…This focus means engaging with the large variations in the extent of men's unpaid care work, as well as with the dangers of a possible return to and re-emphasis on the heteronormative 'rights of fathers'. Instead of widening the definition of masculinity and gender roles, a fathers' rights approach focuses on promoting patriarchal understanding of family, where the power is solely male prerogative (Bergmann et al 2014;Wojnicka 2016). In order to take a broad strategic approach to the politics of care, and not conflating it with fatherhood politics, the research consortium adopted the advocacy of 'caring masculinities' as a policy aim, which could be applied not only in families and households, but also in men's care and caring in workplaces, politics, and so on.…”

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The EU, men and masculinities

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The Routledge Handbook of Gender and EU Politics

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Critical approaches on men and masculinities are relevant whether we are talking about EU politics as an amalgam of national and local politics, institutionally or geographically, or the international or transnational politics in or of the EU itself and its various constituent institutions and bodies.They are relevant in the analysis of political institutions, social movements and political actors, both individual and collective, as well as the very question of what counts as politics in the first place, seen as pervasive and not only formal politics in the public domain. Thus, politics is not just mainstream politics in the public domain; rather politics pervades gender ordering of and across societies.Men and masculinities are just as gendered as women and femininities, individually and collectively: whether we are talking about party politicians, policy-makers, professionals, activists, supporters, clients, citizens, migrants or refugees, amongst many other political actors and groupings. This may seem obvious (to some), but is still frequently forgotten or obscured, in both mainstream and critical analyses. It is so much the case that political institutions and organisations whether local, national, transnational or Europeanare often described in either gender-neutral or implicitly masculinised terms, into which women move or which affect women, albeit in differential ways. The centre, the One (as opposed to the presumed Other[s]), typically and easily remains undeconstructed. Likewise, the EU and its institutions and processes may appear, to many, as gender-neutral or implicitly masculinised.

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“…Hard-line wing actors are usually mobilized by negative emotions such as anger, fear, and jealousy and focus on the struggling against fathers' discrimination in the family courts, social services, and society more broadly. They profess highly conservative values and are characterized by antifeminist approach and ambivalent attitude to women as a social category (Wojnicka, 2016). In terms of masculinities and fatherhood definitions, they represent their hegemonic (Connell, 2005) and patriarchal faces.…”

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Sex and the Fieldwork: Gender, Sexuality, Nationality, and Social Class in Research on European (Heterosexual) Men

Wojnicka

2020

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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The overall goal of this article is to make a contribution to the developing, but not yet sufficiently explored, issue of methodology in research on men and masculinities performed by female researchers. This article is based on my professional experience gained during a research project on the European fathers’ rights movements. This was conducted between 2011 and 2016 with members of fathers’ rights groups in Poland, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. The central issue here is the process of carrying out interviews with men by a female researcher and the variety of gender dynamics produced through this particular type of interaction. This process is connected to multiple issues arising from gender inequalities and power relations. This article provides an intersectional analysis of the relations between the researcher and the researched since social factors such as gender, sexuality, nationality, and social class have a tremendous impact on the interview process in different sociopolitical contexts in Europe.

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“…In Polish social sciences, masculinity studies have emerged later (e.g. Arcimowicz 2003;Melosik 2006;Fuszara 2008;Kluczyńska 2009Kluczyńska , 2017Wojnicka 2011Wojnicka , 2016Suwada andPlantin 2014, Suwada 2017; Śmieja 2016), and to a large extent refer to theories developed in the United States and other Anglophone countries. Also, in the Polish studies on men and masculinities, there is hardly any attention focused on the specificities of trans masculinities per se (e.g.…”

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Negotiated Masculinities. Trans Men’s Attitudes Toward Dominant Notions of Masculinity in Poland and the United States

Kłonkowska

2021

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The paper is based on a qualitative research project carried out in Poland and the United States. It intends to compare the attitudes of trans men toward dominant notions of masculinity in their respective countries. Focusing on people who had been recognized as female at birth but whose experienced gender is male, the paper addresses their definitions of masculinity, attitudes toward accomplishing socially acknowledged patterns of maleness and re-defining their gender identity. For this purpose, the study compares the ways in which dominant models of masculinity are conceptualized by the research participants, their childhood socialization to locally and globally defined gender roles, the cultural context they grew up in, and its influence on negotiating one’s own gender identity. As a result, conclusions from the study present a comparison of Polish and US trans men’s efforts to negotiate personal and social identity in light of dominant masculine ideals (e.g., their potential reworking, acceptance, and rejection of various elements of those ideals and explore how alternative notions of masculinity shape different experiences of female-to-male transition in both countries.

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Masculist Groups in Poland: Aids of Mainstream Antifeminism

Cited by 24 publications

References 13 publications

The EU, men and masculinities

The EU, men and masculinities

Sex and the Fieldwork: Gender, Sexuality, Nationality, and Social Class in Research on European (Heterosexual) Men

Negotiated Masculinities. Trans Men’s Attitudes Toward Dominant Notions of Masculinity in Poland and the United States

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