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Performing Feminist Affinity: Interviewing Feminist Men in Sweden
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology.
2008 (English)In: Revista Atenea, ISSN 0885-6079, Vol. XXVIII, no 2, p. 107-120Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Mayagüez: Centro de Publicaciones Académicas UPR-RUM , 2008. Vol. XXVIII, no 2, p. 107-120
Keywords [en]
masculinity, qualitative interviews, feminist men, interview performance, cross-gender interviewing
National Category
Sociology
Research subject
Sociology
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-108804OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-108804DiVA, id: diva2:240825
Available from: 2009-09-30 Created: 2009-09-30 Last updated: 2011-04-28Bibliographically approved
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1. IngenMansLand: om män som feminister, intervjuframträdanden och passerandets politik
Open this publication in new window or tab >>IngenMansLand: om män som feminister, intervjuframträdanden och passerandets politik
2011 (Swedish)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Alternative title[en]
No Man's Land : Men as Feminists, Interview Performances and the Politics of Passing
Abstract [en]

This thesis explores constructions of gendered and gender political positions and practices of men identifying as ‘feminist’. The analysis is based on qualitative interviews with 28 men aged 20-34. At issue is how seemingly contradictory positions for men as feminists are made comprehensible in theory and practice.

An introduction showcase theoretical discussions on gendered experiences and the possibilities of men being feminist, mainly from standpoint, radical feminist and poststructuralist radical constructionist perspectives. Men doing feminism emerge as an unresolved complex matter. This is followed by a critical discussion of state feminism, double emancipation and research on men and masculinities in the welfare state. The support for men’s participation, predominantly as white heterosexual fathers, in the Swedish gender equality project has consequences for the construction of men as potentially ‘new’, ‘good’ gender equal feminist subjects. In the construction of profeminist positions in interview performances, interviewees are located in-between the radical feminist, poststructuralist and gender equality perspectives on men, masculinity and feminism.

Two themes involve an implementation of the concept of passing and introduce the analytical concept of co-fielding. Passing consists of the microsociological process of making radical and deconstructive profeminist positions authentic and yet being able to manage masculinity in homosocial contexts.

Co-fielding refers to the conjoint interlacing of experiences, knowledge and meaning-making in interview interaction where relations of researcher-researched are characterized by discursive closeness and overlapping positions. Co-fielding practices affect the outcomes of co-construction of interview performances, the negotiation of gender and power relations and the reflexive use of (in this case feminist) knowledge in qualitative interviews.

In analyzing the presentations of self, ambiguous meanings of profeminist positions emerge and the doing, undoing and redoing of feminism and masculinity appear multi-faceted. Radical feminism and radical constructionism seem intersected in making men’s feminist positions comprehensible. Such rebellious positions emerge as oxymoronic and, when critically brought into the gender equality context, located in a no man’s land out of place.

In all, the thesis seeks to bring together theoretical, national and empirical locations of profeminist men, and in a concluding chapter also explore issues of ethics in feminist research and cross-gender interviewing.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2011. p. 133
Series
Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Social Sciences, ISSN 1652-9030 ; 65
Keywords
men, masculinity, feminism, feminist men, profeminism, radical feminism, poststructuralist feminism, radical constructionism, gender equality, state feminism, double emancipation, masculinity politics, performance, performativity, doing gender, Goffman, interview interaction, qualitative interviews, cross-gender interviewing, passing, position, homosociality, reflexivity, situational analysis, co-fielding
National Category
Sociology Gender Studies
Research subject
Sociology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-145853 (URN)978-91-554-8005-9 (ISBN)
Public defence
2011-03-26, sal IX, Universitetshuset, Biskopsgatan 3, Uppsala, 10:15 (Swedish)
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Available from: 2011-03-04 Created: 2011-02-11 Last updated: 2011-05-04

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