1 Gender Orders and Regime Change 1

2 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 2

3 Neoliberalism & masculinity Turn to private Responsibility Complementarity Culturalist A time of crisis 3 Much more important for the defence of gender inequality are movements in which mens interests are a side effectnationalist, ethnic, religious, and economic movements. Of these, the most inuential on a world scale is contemporary neoliberalism. - RW Connell

4 Neoliberalism & masculinity Turn to private Responsibility Complementarity Culturalist A time of crisis 4 GAD for women is robustly materialist, concentrating on social relations particularly as they dene 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

5 Neoliberalism & masculinity Turn to private Responsibility Complementarity Culturalist A time of crisis 5 [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

6 Neoliberalism & masculinity Turn to private Responsibility Complementarity Culturalist A time of crisis 6 By the late 90s male inclusion had become a dening 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

7 Neoliberalism & masculinity Turn to private Responsibility Complementarity Culturalist A time of crisis 7 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 mens political practices. - A. McMahon

8 Neoliberalism & masculinity Turn to private Responsibility Complementarity Culturalist A time of crisis 8

9 Liberatory work on masculinity The 4 Rs of feminism State & its Institutions intersections Communities of interest Realities of trauma Beyond the Binary 9 Recognition Redress Representation Redistribution

10 Liberatory work on masculinity The 4 Rs of feminism State & its Institutions intersections Communities of interest Realities of trauma Beyond the Binary 10

11 Liberatory work on masculinity The 4 Rs of feminism State & its Institutions intersections Communities of interest Realities of trauma Beyond the Binary 11

12 Liberatory work on masculinity The 4 Rs of feminism State & its Institutions intersections Communities of interest Realities of trauma Beyond the Binary 12 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

13 Liberatory work on masculinity The 4 Rs of feminism State & its Institutions intersections Communities of interest Realities of trauma Beyond the Binary 13

14 Liberatory work on masculinity The 4 Rs of feminism State & its Institutions intersections Communities of interest Realities of trauma Beyond the Binary 14 When something is about masculinity, it is not always about men. - Eve Kosofsky-Sedgwick

15 Engagement strategies Spaces of community building Tools for trauma work Processes for political engagement Alliances for gender justice Practices within social movements Energies to stir it up 15