About the Book
This Handbook provides new theoretical and empirical insights into men, men’s practices and masculinities across many kinds of organizations and forms of organizing. Most mainstream studies of organizations, leadership and management do not seem to notice they are often talking a lot about men and masculinities. The Handbook challenges this general tendency to avoid gendering men by bringing together a range of theoretical and methodological approaches that:
engage with not only formal organizations, such as businesses and state organizations, but also processes of organizing within and beyond organizations;
address emergent and future issues on men, masculinities and organizations, such as tech masculinities, men’s emotions, sexualities and violences, animal advocacy and environmental issues, and men and masculinities in pandemics.
Targeted at scholars, policymakers, practitioners and students interested in links between men, masculinities, organizations and organizing, this landmark Handbook is an invaluable resource for those working in and beyond such fields as gender studies, organization, leadership and management studies, political science, sociology, social and public policy, and social movement studies.
Chapter 28 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Table of Contents:
1. Studying Men, Masculinities, Organizations and Organizing: Introducing the Handbook; Part I: Theories and Frameworks; 2. New Maps of Struggle for Gender Justice: Rethinking Feminist Research on Organizations and Work; 3. Conditional Solidarity: Men as Supporters of Feminist Causes in Public Activism; 4. Social Theory and Critical Theory; 5. Paradigms, Gender and the Making of Organization Theory; 6. De/postcolonial Organizing: A Decolonial and Transnational Perspective; 7. Masculinities in the Wasteland: (Post)colonial Capitalism in the West, China, and Africa; 8. Global, Transnational and Regional Organizations and Organizing; Part II: Structures and Processes of Organizing; 9. Critical Dialectical Perspectives on Men, Masculinities and Leadership; 10. Workplace Masculinity Cultures and Contests; 11. Doing Meta-work to Navigate Conventionally Masculinist Careers and Work Norms; 12. Changing and Challenging Work/life Negotiations for Men and Organizations; 13. Bodies, Embodiment, Body Work, Care, Caring and Self-care; 14. Emotions and Affect in Organizing Men and Masculinity/ies; 15. Mingle with Men: Sexuality and Gay Men in Organizations; 16. Hidden in Plain Sight: The Role of Gender and Power in Responding to Violence and Abuse in Organizations; Part III: Organizational Settings; 17. Hegemonic Masculinities and the Hegemony of Men in Business and Finance Organizations: Persistence of and Challenges to Patriarchal Power; 18. Masculinity of the Modern Western State and of State Institutions; 19. Men, Masculinities and Military Organizations; 20. Masculinities, Political Organizations and Political Organizing: Queering Anti-Apartheid Struggle; 21. Beyond the Public Light: Political Strongmen, Masculine Embodiment, and Sports Organizations; 22. (Un)doing Masculinity? Men Working in Women’s Occupations; 23. Boys and Schooling: Intersectional Perspectives; 24. Men, Gender and Knowledge Construction in Higher Education; Part IV: Current and Future Issues; 25. The Hegemony of Men in Global Value Chains: Insights for Intersectional Labour Governance; 26. Multiple Crisis, Crisis of Gender Relations and Crisis of Masculinity; 27. Allyship and Accountability in Organizations Engaging Men in Violence Prevention: Principles, Practices and Political Dilemmas; 28. Men and Masculinities in Animal Advocacy Organizations and Organizing: From Men’s Domination and Masculinized Strategies towards an Ethics of Care and Intersectional Activism; 29. Tracing the Superheroes of Our Time: Contemporary and Emergent Masculinities in Tech Entrepreneurship; 30. Men and Covid-19: Pandemics and Organizing in the ‘New Normal’
About the Author :
Jeff Hearn is Professor Emeritus of Management and Organization at Hanken School of Economics, Finland; Senior Professor of Human Geography at Örebro University, Sweden; and Professor of Sociology at the University of Huddersfield, UK.
Kadri Aavik is Associate Professor of Gender Studies at Tallinn University, Estonia.
David L. Collinson is Distinguished Professor of Leadership and Organization at Lancaster University Management School.
Anika Thym is completing her PhD in Gender Studies at the University of Basel, Switzerland.
Review :
"It’s ironic that a world dominated by men should have so comparatively little theoretical and empirical research that casts a critical eye on masculinity in organizations. Fortunately, this edited collection provides a robust and thorough overview of that lacuna and is filled with star contributors and sharp contemporary analyses. If you are new to the academic literature then this is the book to start with; if you are familiar with the literature then there isn’t a better update."
Keith Grint, Emeritus Professor, Warwick Business School, UK
"The importance of gender studies from a critical perspective is needed more than ever as scholars find alternative ways to resist societal and organizational structures of domination and exploitation. This international resource is a must read for anyone seeking to interrogate the relationship between men and masculinities. The collection journeys from classic theories of masculine domination and ways of organizing against hegemonic masculinity to emerging accounts of contemporary and global masculinities and the implications for organizations and organizing."
Alison Pullen, Macquarie University, Australia
"The handbook links men and masculinities with social structures represented by diverse organizations and practices of organizing. Such perspective provides an important and invaluable angle of analysis contrasting with popular approaches reducing masculinity to individual traits or some essential personality type. Authors and editors ensure their comprehensive approach is reflected critically and engage in conceptual dialogue on how the different perspectives can be theorized. Informal and formal practices – imprinted in the construction of organizations or organizational settings shaping practice - form the pivotal perspective bravely engaging in deconstructing power relations, hegemonies, or crises. Multiple takes on analyses collected in the handbook offer vivid portraits of organizations and organizing as gendered practices for both students and readers new to the field and scholars engaged in critical approaches to masculinities across disciplines and spaces. Following this way of theorizing is a joy to read."
Iva Šmídová, Associate Professor, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
"I was literally blown away by the remarkable set of chapters that powerfully reveal the magnitude of the effects of men’s practices and masculinities across the globe. The volume draws from multi-disciplines to reveal the relationships between men, masculinities and organizing and organizations. It is an excellent resource for understanding contemporary challenges like persistent gender divisions in labor markets, the gendered effects of the COV-19 pandemic, social movements, environmental issues, racial injustice, gendered based violence, the rising tide of authoritarian leadership and the accelerating pushback on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), women’s rights, and recognition of transgender identities. The volume helps to explain why despite efforts towards gender, social class, and racial equality, the world finds itself being led by a few powerful men (i.e. G7) and organizations that remain male (and often white men) dominated."
Stella M. Nkomo, University of Pretoria, South Africa
"This Handbook is an encyclopaedic and timely overview of research on masculinities in a wide range of organisational settings (including business, the state, the military, political and sports organisations and education); located in an exploration of theoretical perspectives and with a specific focus on key issues (including leadership, embodiment, affect, violence, work-life issues and masculinity contests), it is a crucial text for all those interested in understanding today's world."
Prof Pat O’Connor, Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Limerick
"With a view to the very different geographical and organizational contexts, a great collection has been created –
"An inspiring resource providing material for "rethinking" or just to understand what masculinity can mean in a variety of contexts and conditions. From schools to financial companies, bodies to emotions, sexuality to violence, sports to universities, superheroes to leaders, masculinities shape our everyday lives and our world and it is time to take a closer look at them."
Leaders for Equality, Source: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/leaders-for-equality_rethinkingmasculinityday-sammelband-maeunnlichkeit-activity-7183033550126895104-OrlL/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios
“Together, the Handbook editors and contributors have sought to address and interrogate enduring concerns about men and organizational masculinities, to nurture cross-disciplinary dialogues, engender new modes of scholarly interrogation, create spaces for marginalized perspectives and voices, grapple with how to change men and organizational masculinities while keeping an eye on the future; in particular, emerging issues that warrant academic scrutiny. As a pioneer in its field, the Handbook provides a rich repository of theoretical and empirical insights into the always timely topic of men, organizational masculinities and organizations … scholars, students and activists will find the Handbook an invaluable resource that may inform their own interventions in this field.”
Professor Nick Rumens, Oxford Brookes University, Media Review: Routledge Handbook on Men, Masculinities and Organizations. Organization Studies, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/01708406251326644
