Gender still at work

Interrogating identity in discourses and practices of masculinity

Bibliographic Data

ID12311468
AuthorsDavid Knights (0000-0003-0072-0393, Department of Organization, Work and Technology Lancaster University Management School, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume26
Issue1
Pages18-30
Publication date2019-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGender Work and Organization (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0968-6673 • E-ISSN: 1468-0432
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/gwao.12338
OpenAlexW2913778660
LanguageEN
Citations received13
References cited43

Apart from a few paragraphs reminiscing on how, in response to a publisher contacting us, Jill, Marilyn and I founded Gender, Work and Organization combined with a few comments on its evolution as a leading journal in our field, this article largely summarizes and seeks to develop my lifelong interests in discourses and practices of masculinity. It pays tribute to my doctoral students and/or research colleagues with whom many of these ideas concerning masculinities were shaped. The article then surveys the literature on discourses and practices of masculinities through the three waves: the unitarist, the pluralist and, finally, the performativist approach to discourses and practices of masculinity. A central argument of the article is that although each wave has contributed something of importance to the critical examination of masculinities, none of them fully interrogate identity to theorize how our attachment to the security that it promises is illusory. Posthumanist feminists come closest to realizing this and seeking an alternative embodied and ethical engagement with, rather than a competitive elevation of self over, the other. In the conclusion, there is a brief comment on how the global backlash from the political right has made struggles against dominant masculinities all the more urgent

Aesthetics · Argument (complex analysis · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Field (mathematics · Identity (music · Masculinity · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Tribute · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law

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