TY - JOUR
T1 - Reflecting on men and social policy
T2 - Contemporary critical debates and implications for social policy
AU - Hearn, Jeff
PY - 2010/5
Y1 - 2010/5
N2 - To put 'men' and 'social policy' together may still seem a little strange. Yet there are numerous ways in which social policy is about men, in its formulation, implementation, delivery, and inclusions/exclusions. Different men have variable relations to social policy, and are involved and implicated in social policy in a wide variety of ways, as: users, family members, practitioners, managers, policy makers, members of social organizations, and so on. Likewise, the explicit gendering and naming of men is uneven in different social policy arenas. This article discusses contemporary debates in Critical Studies on Men - masculinity and multiple masculinities; hegemonic masculinity and the hegemony of men; embodiment; and transnationalization and virtualization - and in each case considers their implications for social policy, before some concluding remarks.
AB - To put 'men' and 'social policy' together may still seem a little strange. Yet there are numerous ways in which social policy is about men, in its formulation, implementation, delivery, and inclusions/exclusions. Different men have variable relations to social policy, and are involved and implicated in social policy in a wide variety of ways, as: users, family members, practitioners, managers, policy makers, members of social organizations, and so on. Likewise, the explicit gendering and naming of men is uneven in different social policy arenas. This article discusses contemporary debates in Critical Studies on Men - masculinity and multiple masculinities; hegemonic masculinity and the hegemony of men; embodiment; and transnationalization and virtualization - and in each case considers their implications for social policy, before some concluding remarks.
KW - Age
KW - Embodiment
KW - Hegemony
KW - Transnationalization
KW - Violence
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77952211612&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0261018309358288
DO - 10.1177/0261018309358288
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77952211612
VL - 30
SP - 165
EP - 188
JO - Critical Social Policy
JF - Critical Social Policy
SN - 0261-0183
IS - 2
ER -