ABSTRACT

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 fi elds as gender studies, organization, leadership and management studies, political science, sociology, social and public policy, and social movement studies.

part I|98 pages

Theories and frameworks

chapter 2|10 pages

New maps of struggle for gender justice

Locating men, masculinities and organizations in feminist research on organizations and work 1

chapter 3|16 pages

Conditional solidarity

Men and masculinities in social justice activist movements

chapter 4|13 pages

Social theory and critical theory

chapter 6|14 pages

Decolonizing masculinities

A decolonial and transnational perspective

chapter 7|14 pages

Masculinities in the wasteland

(Post)colonial capitalism in the West, China and Africa

chapter 8|14 pages

Global, transnational, national and “local” organizations and organizing

The case of space and place

part II|114 pages

Structures and processes of organizing

chapter 15|14 pages

Mingle with men

Sexuality and gay men in organizations

part III|120 pages

Organizational settings

chapter 17|14 pages

Hegemonic masculinities and the hegemony of men in business and finance organizations

Persistence of and challenges to patriarchal power

chapter 21|15 pages

Beyond the public light

Political strongmen, masculine embodiment and sports organizations

chapter 23|19 pages

Boys and schooling

Intersectional perspectives

part IV|91 pages

Current and future issues

chapter 25|17 pages

The hegemony of men in global value chains

Insights for intersectional labour governance 1

chapter 27|14 pages

Allyship and accountability in organizations engaging men in violence prevention

Principles, practices and political dilemmas

chapter 28|15 pages

Men and masculinities in animal advocacy organizations and organizing

From men's domination and masculinized strategies towards an ethics of care and intersectional activism

chapter 29|13 pages

Tracing the superheroes of our time

Contemporary and emergent masculinities in tech entrepreneurship

chapter 30|14 pages

Men and COVID-19

Pandemics and organizing in the “new normal”