Anneli Häyrén (ed.) | Akateeminen Kirjakauppa

This volume explores which relations produce or maintain masculinities
and certain gendered systems of power and the consequences of these gender
constructions that further gender research. To understand the meanings of
masculinity/masculinities and relationalities as critical concepts in gender
studies it takes a wide theoretical grip that spans over several research
fields. From a feminist perspective, it critically investigates masculinities
as relationally constructed by scrutinizing which relations construct
masculinity within a certain gendered system of power, such as the nation, the
family, or the workplace, and explores how this is done. ‘In relation to what?’
is hence, in spite of its almost vulgar rhetorical simplicity, an important
question in investigating and problematizing gender.