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Morton, Joel. "Disciplining Men: Cultural Studies of the Men’s Movement," American Studies, University of Kansas, May 2000.
Based on prolonged participant-observation research in men’s groups in Kansas City, Missouri, and Birmingham, United Kingdom, Disciplining Men: Cultural Studies of the Men’s Movement explores the workings of gendered power in advanced capitalist countries through a cultural studies analysis of the contemporary men’s movement. It argues that by and large the men’s movement is best understood as one of many techniques of postindustrial gender discipline by which men are rendered compliant to the requirements of global capitalism. However, the project’s specific focus is on forms of resistance to such discipline to be found in profeminist men’s groups. The project contextualizes the experience of profeminist men amid the power relations that constitute the contemporary gender order. In their personal and public lives, profeminist men attempt an explicit rejection of hegemonic masculinity, yet their example indicates that men’s anti-sexist practice is fraught with contradictions and extremely difficult to sustain over time. At the heart of the dissertation is a critical exploration of whether and how such men may overcome such contradictions and contribute to progressive gender and social change.
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