1 Gender Orders and Regime Change 1. 2 Some starting points Change in the deep structures of social...

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Gender Orders and Regime Change

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Some starting points

Change in the “deep structures of social totality”

Feel the heat, not just see the light

Pressure of mass discontent

Masculinity of hegemony

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Neoliberalism & masculinity

Turn to private

Responsibility

Complementarity

Culturalist

A time of crisis

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“Much more important for the defence of gender inequality are movements in which men’s interests are a side effect—nationalist, ethnic, religious, and economic movements. Of these, the most influential on a world scale is contemporary neoliberalism.” - RW Connell

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Turn to private

Responsibility

Complementarity

Culturalist

A time of crisis

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“‘GAD for women’ is robustly materialist, concentrating on social relations particularly as they define rights and responsibilities in work, consumption and households…. ‘GAD for men’ is by contrast much more individualistic and personal, much more preoccupied with the self.”- Sarah White

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Turn to private

Responsibility

Complementarity

Culturalist

A time of crisis

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“[It] will require not just the liberation of women, but also the liberation of men – in their thinking, attitudes, and willingness to take a fairer share of the responsibilities and work-loads that women carry on their shoulders. [...] And action must begin at home.”- James Wolfensohn

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Turn to private

Responsibility

Complementarity

Culturalist

A time of crisis

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By the late 90s “male inclusion had become a defining feature of successful gender policy.”“Men were framed as unreliable policy problems who failed to adhere to a complementary model of good partnership.”“Men are being included in gender lending to help reprivatize caring labor as women move into paid work.”

- Kate Bedford

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Turn to private

Responsibility

Complementarity

Culturalist

A time of crisis

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“To say that the problem of gender relations is the way in which masculinity is constructed, with the solution a ‘reconstruction of masculinity’ is to displace theoretical attention from men’s political practices.”- A. McMahon

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Turn to private

Responsibility

Complementarity

Culturalist

A time of crisis

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Liberatory work on masculinity

The 4 Rs of feminism

State & its Institutions

Gender @ intersections

Communities of interest

Realities of trauma

Beyond the Binary

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•Recognition

•Redress

•Representation

•Redistribution

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Realities of trauma

Beyond the Binary

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Realities of trauma

Beyond the Binary

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Realities of trauma

Beyond the Binary

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“Class, race, national, regional, and generational differences cross-cut the category “men,” spreading the gains and costs of gender relations very unevenly among men. There are many situations where groups of men may see their interest as more closely aligned with the women in their communities than with other men.”- RW Connell

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Realities of trauma

Beyond the Binary

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Realities of trauma

Beyond the Binary

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“When something is about masculinity, it is not always ‘about men’.” - Eve Kosofsky-Sedgwick

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Engagement strategiesSpaces of community building

Tools for trauma work

Processes for political engagement

Alliances for gender justice

Practices within social movements

Energies to stir it up

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