Brittany Ralph is Lecturer at the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology at The University of Liverpool, UK. She teaches, writes, and researches in the field of critical studies on men and masculinities, and has published in Men and Masculinities, British Journal of Sociology, Journal of Sociology and NORMA. She has also conducted research on men's risky drinking practices, ‘healthy masculinities’ intervention programmes and victim-survivors’ experiences of coercive control.

• 1. The Significance of Men’s More Intimate Same-Gender Friendships.- 2. Theory, Debates and a Feminist Poststructuralist Way Forward.- 3. Friendship in the Fathers’ Early Lives.- 4. Friendship in the Fathers’ Later Lives.- 5. Friendship in the Sons’ Lives.- 6. Overcoming Barriers to Intimacy Through Humour, Alcohol and the Disembodied Nature of Online Spaces.- 7. Towards a Feminist Poststructuralist Account of Change in Men’s Friendships.

Brittany Ralph is Lecturer at the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology at The University of Liverpool, UK. She teaches, writes, and researches in the field of critical studies on men and masculinities, and has published in Men and Masculinities, British Journal of Sociology, Journal of Sociology and NORMA. She has also conducted research on men's risky drinking practices, ‘healthy masculinities’ intervention programmes and victim-survivors’ experiences of coercive control.

• 1. The Significance of Men’s More Intimate Same-Gender Friendships.- 2. Theory, Debates and a Feminist Poststructuralist Way Forward.- 3. Friendship in the Fathers’ Early Lives.- 4. Friendship in the Fathers’ Later Lives.- 5. Friendship in the Sons’ Lives.- 6. Overcoming Barriers to Intimacy Through Humour, Alcohol and the Disembodied Nature of Online Spaces.- 7. Towards a Feminist Poststructuralist Account of Change in Men’s Friendships.

Brittany Ralph is Lecturer at the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology at The University of Liverpool, UK. She teaches, writes, and researches in the field of critical studies on men and masculinities, and has published in Men and Masculinities, British Journal of Sociology, Journal of Sociology and NORMA. She has also conducted research on men's risky drinking practices, ‘healthy masculinities’ intervention programmes and victim-survivors’ experiences of coercive control.

• 1. The Significance of Men’s More Intimate Same-Gender Friendships.- 2. Theory, Debates and a Feminist Poststructuralist Way Forward.- 3. Friendship in the Fathers’ Early Lives.- 4. Friendship in the Fathers’ Later Lives.- 5. Friendship in the Sons’ Lives.- 6. Overcoming Barriers to Intimacy Through Humour, Alcohol and the Disembodied Nature of Online Spaces.- 7. Towards a Feminist Poststructuralist Account of Change in Men’s Friendships.