Coffee, Cookies and Cards: The Use of Visuals and Materiality to Reproduce and Transform Masculinity in Dutch Social Work Interventions

Title:

Coffee, Cookies and Cards: The Use of Visuals and Materiality to Reproduce and Transform Masculinity in Dutch Social Work Interventions

Creator:

Huis, Iris van and Haar, Marleen van der

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:3c2bac0e-1990-4aee-8df4-d9eca5737cc9
uuid:3c2bac0e-1990-4aee-8df4-d9eca5737cc9
doi:10.13060/12130028.2015.16.1.168
issn:1213-0028

Subject:

Globální společnosti. Sociální struktura. Sociální skupiny, gender, masculinities, interventions, gender equality, 18, and 316.3

Type:

article, stati, model:article, and TEXT

Format:

print, bez média, and svazek

Description:

In what way do gender-specific interventions aimed at marginalised men reproduce and transform masculinities, and what kind of masculinity do social professionals, who carry out these projects, work with? This paper analyses how visual materials, spaces and artefacts enable professionals to deal with masculinity and gender-equality issues when working with men whom they assume hold traditional views on masculinity and gender roles. A three-year study of semi-public interventions that worked on individual empowerment, participation and gender equality with marginalised men in the Netherlands revealed that the professionals found it difficult to raise gender-equality issues. In contrast to the other project goals of individual empowerment and participation, gender-equality issues created a discomfort. The authors also discovered that gender equality in most cases was dealt with in more subtle ways than the issues of individual empowerment and participation. In this context, professionals worked with an ideal version of what the ‘new’ masculinity of the participants would look like, which we labelled ‘pacified masculinity’. The paper empirically shows how social professionals benefit from the use of space, images and artefacts to break down rigid gender roles and potentially enable men to construct other versions of masculine identity. Moreover, we argue that visuals and materiality create room for a reflection on the role of men in women’s emancipation., Iris van Huis, Marleen van der Haar., and Obsahuje bibliografii

Language:

Czech

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
policy:public

Source:

Gender, rovné příležitosti, výzkum: bulletin týmu Gender v sociologii | 2015 Volume:16 | Number:1

Harvested from:

CDK

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