Interconnecting the Violences of Men

Continuities and Intersections in Research, Policy and Activism

Kate Seymour, Bob Pease, Sofia Strid, Jeff Hearn

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9781032540801
• eBook ISBN: 9781040216620
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

This book aims to expand and enrich understandings of violences by focusing on gendered continuities, interconnections and intersections across multiple forms and manifestations of men's violence. In actively countering, both, the compartmentalisation of studies of violence by 'type' and form, and the tendency to conceptualise violence narrowly, it aims to flesh out – not delimit - understandings of violence.

Bringing together cross-disciplinary, indeed transdisciplinary, perspectives, this book addresses how - what are often seen as - specific and separate violences connect closely and intricately with wider understandings of violence, how there are gendered continuities between violences, and how gendered violences take many forms and manifestations and are themselves intersectional. Grounded by the recognition that violence is, itself, a form of inequality, the contributors to this volume traverse the intersectional complexities across, both, experiences of violent inequality, and what is seen to 'count' as violence.

The international scope of this book will be of interest to students and academics across many fields including sociology, criminology, psychology, social work, politics, gender studies, child and youth studies, military and peace studies, environmental studies, and colonial studies, as well as practitioners, activists and policy makers engaged in violence prevention.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of illustrations
• Notes on contributors
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Interconnecting the violences of men: continuities and intersections in research, policy, and activism
• 2 What’s in a name?: theorising the inter-relationships of gender and violence
• 3 (De)Culturalising the problem of men’s violences: the case of online debates on violence committed by migrant men
• 4 Men’s violences in relation to children and young people
• 5 Violences in children’s and young people’s lives: continuities and contradictions in counteracting the violence
• 6 Violence against gay/homosexual men and trans women as ‘failed men’
• 7 Men’s anti-queer violence: the enduring impact of colonial era sex and gender binaries
• 8 Dilemmas, pained frustration, and new possibilities: masculinities, violences, and disabilities
• 9 Reframing the narrative: the processes and outcomes of men’s victimization in human trafficking
• 10 Rethinking the gendering of agency in male suicide: more-than-human connections in violence against the self
• 11 Gendered entanglements of men’s violence against the self and violence against women
• 12 The violences of settler colonialism and the maintenance of the heteropatriarchal social order
• 13 Men, war, and logics of practicality: the interlinkage between gender constructions and individual violence
• 14 Men’s violence and environmental destruction: what are the connections?
• 15 Men, masculinities and violence against non-human animals: towards an intersectional approach
• 16 Epistemic violence: an analytical tool for theorising the interconnections of violences
• 17 Interconnecting violences for research, policy and activism: concluding reflections
• Index