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Asking The Man Question: Masculinities Analysis And Feminist Theory, Nancy E. Dowd
Asking The Man Question: Masculinities Analysis And Feminist Theory, Nancy E. Dowd
UF Law Faculty Publications
Masculinities scholarship is an essential piece of feminist analysis and of critical equality analysis. It requires that we "ask the man question" to further unravel inequalities. This symposium marks one of several movements toward examining and considering what masculinities scholarship can offer. In this introduction, I suggest a framework of masculinities analysis and describe its relationship to feminist theory. First, I consider why we should ask the "man question," and how we should ask it. Second, I explore how masculinities analysis might be useful in our examination of the "man question." Masculinities work can be used to understand more clearly …