ABSTRACT
While profeminism seems markedly more politically progressive compared with the men’s groups examined in the last chapter, a number of feminists have viewed profeminist subject positions as problematic. This chapter outlines critical feminist engagements with profeminism and develops a framework for analysing the particular concerns raised by profeminism’s style of politics as practiced by a dominant identity. The chapter concentrates on the problems that have emerged in profeminist models of personal and public politics. It also examines the contentious issues of linking men’s subjectivity and experience to oppositional gender politics, and charts the relationship of these categories to gendered power and feminist theory and practice.
