Feminist Perspectives on Teaching Masculinities Learning Beyond Stereotypes Teaching with Gender Series

Feminist Perspectives on Teaching Masculinities looks at teaching non-hegemonic forms of masculinities and highlights their diversity. The collection foregrounds and discusses concepts which are described and gathered as positive, caring, and inclusive masculinities, thus offering a timely and much-needed counterpoint to discussions of so-called toxic masculinity.

The volume presents a wide range of theoretical reflections, case studies, and teaching resources for lecturers in higher education and practitioners in the fields of gender studies, pedagogy, and education. Its heterogeneity is based on an interdisciplinary approach, methodological variety, cross-cultural spectrum, and empirical richness, reflected in various contributions from Europe, Africa, US, and Asia. The international scope of the book and its transnational perspective is valuable in broadening perspectives on teaching masculinities. The presentation and discussion of national and local programs and campaigns promoting teaching practices on masculinities and gender provide further valuable insights into learning beyond stereotypes and realizing new concepts of masculinities.

By presenting alternative performances of masculinities and fostering masculinities studies which are oriented towards gender equality and/or going beyond gender norms, Feminist Perspectives on Teaching Masculinities offers a strong response to the backlashes against feminism and gender studies from rising nationalism coupled with hegemonic masculinities.

List of figures and tables, List of contributors, Acknowledgements Introduction Sveva Magaraggia, Gerlinde Mauerer, and Marianne Schmidbaur PART I: Higher Education Chapter 1 The Power of Feminist Pedagogy in Challenging "Learnification" and the Neoliberal Ethos Kristiina Brunila Chapter 2 The Queer Researcher: Challenging Homonormativity in Research and Educational Settings Marco Bacio and Cirus Rinaldi Chapter 3 "Grandpa is Doing Okay": Teaching Studies on Aging Men and Masculinities In Educational Sciences Miranda Leontowitsch PART II: New Caring Perspectives Chapter 4 Caring Masculinities in Action: Teaching Beyond and Against the Gender-Segregated Labor Market Elli Scambor, Daniela Jauk, Marc Gärtner and Erika Bernacchi Chapter 5 Decision-Making in a Poster Competition on Caring Fathers in Austria: Gender Theoretical Reflections on Prize-winning Posters and Media Images Gerlinde Mauerer Chapter 6 Communist Discourse on Fatherhood: Historical and Documentary Analyses Of Chinese Magazines from 1949-1966 Tingting Tan PART III: Anti-Violence. Gender Transformative - Work with Men and Boys Chapter 7 Beyond the Civilizing Mission: Contradictions and Potentials of Gender-Transformative Work with Male Refugees Paul Scheibelhofer and Philipp Leeb Chapter 8 Deploying Tradition: Harnessing Positive Aspects of Southern African Tradition to Dismantle Toxic Masculinity and Hegemony in Swaziland John Warner and Tom Churchyard Chapter 9 Transforming Gender Norms in Rakai, Uganda: Involving Men and Boys inIntimate Partner Violence Prevention Erika Bonnevie and Jennifer A. Wagman EpilogueUndoing the Crisis of Masculinities: Analyzing Social Change from a Feminist PerspectiveMélanie Gourarier

Sveva Magaraggia is Lecturer at the Department of Sociology and Social Research of the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy. Research and teaching interests include sociology of culture, women’s studies, and qualitative research methods. She has been awarded with the Endeavour Scholarship (2012) and has conducted extensive research on fatherhood and masculinities, and on gender-based violence.

Gerlinde Mauerer is Lecturer at the Institute of Sociology and University of Applied Sciences, Campus Vienna, and is also a freelance senior scientist. Research and teaching interests include masculinities and men’s health, empirical studies on fathers’ parental leave, and part-time work. Further research focuses are gender studies, sociology of health and illness, and feminist theories. In 2016 she was Visiting Fellow at the Department of Sociology, University of York, UK.

Marianne Schmidbaur is Scientific Manager of the Cornelia Goethe Center for Women’s and Gender Studies at the Goethe-University Frankfurt and member of the ATGENDER board. Research and teaching interests include feminist theory, social movements, higher education, and social policy/care. She is coordinator of the BA and the PhD program in Gender Studies at the Goethe-University and was co-editor of a textbook series on gender studies.