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Patriarchal (Dis)orders: Backlash as Crisis Management

Co-authored with Jerker Edström and Chloe Skinner Amid a rising tide of misogyny and gender violence across the world, terms like “patriarchal backlash” have increased in use to describe similar trends in different settings. Yet, backlash remains contested as a concept, variably perceived as an expression of male resistance, a patriarchal restoration, or a mode […]

January 1, 2025

Alan Greig

backlash, body, crisis, family values, masculinities, nation, patriarchy, polycrisis

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The Polycrisis and the Centaur: Hegemony, Masculinity and Racialisation

The multiplicity of crises that mark the contemporary era, the polycrisis, also constitutes a crisis of hegemony. This article explores the functions of gendered racialisation in elite management of this hegemonic crisis, with reference to Gramsci’s use of the figure of the Centaur, a hybrid of humanity and animality. It discusses the ways in which […]

January 1, 2025

Alan Greig

bestiality, hegemony, masculinities, plasticity, polycrisis, racialisation

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Troublesome Masculinities

This article explores the notion of ‘troublesome’ masculinities that characterise much of the policy discourse and programme thinking on problems of young men and gender. It critiques the dimorphism that shapes this view of young men’s gender trouble, and the ‘culturalism’ that constrains the perception of the troubled times in which many young men live. […]

January 1, 2009

Alan Greig

capitalism, conflict, masculinity, patriarchy, urban, violence, youth

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Gender and AIDS: Time to Act

Co-authored with Dean Peacock, Rachel Jewkes and Sisonke Msimang. Gender has long been recognized as being key to understanding and addressing HIV and AIDS. Gender roles and relations that structure and legitimate women’s subordination and simultaneously foster models of masculinity that justify and reproduce men’s dominance over women exacerbate the spread and impact of the […]

August 1, 2008

Alan Greig

feminism, gender, HIV, patriarchy, prevention

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Men, Gender and Violence

This chapter discusses the politics of men’s roles and responsibilities in efforts to end gender-based violence. Feminist analyses of the arrangements of power and male privilege that both produce and are produced by such violence make clear that ending such violence cannot simply be a matter of individual men changing their violent behaviour. Political action […]

January 1, 2002

Alan Greig

capitalism, justice, masculinity, patriarchy, racism, violence

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The Spectacle of Men Fighting

‘There is no political system in which the spectacle of two men fighting is not a striking, if unintended, image of the political impotence of most men.’ (Oates 1987: 63) The meaning of male violence should be a central concern of Gender and Development (GAD) discourse and practice. Patriarchal values and structures are both expressed […]

April 1, 2000

Alan Greig

masculinity, patriarchy, violence

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