Facing Patriarchy

Bob Pease is Honorary Professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Deakin University, Australia and Adjunct Professor in the Institute for the Study of Social Change at the University of Tasmania, Australia. His previous works include Undoing Privilege (Zed 2010); A Man’s World? Changing Men’s Practices in a Globalized World (co-editor, Zed 2001); Men, Masculinities and Methodologies (co-editor 2013) and Men, Masculinities and Disaster (co-editor, 2016). He has been actively involved in feminist politics for many years, and was a founding member of Men Against Sexual Assault in Melbourne.

• Introduction: Facing patriarchyPart I. Rethinking frameworks and policies addressing men’s violence against women1. The limits of public health approaches to violence against women prevention2. The limits of gender equality policies for violence against women preventionPart II Locating men’s violence against women within the pillars of patriarchy3. Transnational and intersectional structures of patriarchy4. Patriarchal ideology and hegemonic gender beliefs5. Homosociality and patriarchal peer support among men6. Coercive control and familial patriarchy7. Patriarchal masculinities and masculine selvesPart III. Linking men’s violence against women to other violences by men8. Gendering men’s public violence against men9. Gendering militarism, war and terrorism10. Gendering global warming and environmental violencePart IV. Overcoming a violent gender order11. Disrupting men’s complicity in the pillars of patriarchy12. Fostering a feminist ethic of care in men

In this current era of populism, a rabid anti-feminist backlash, and a rising right, this is a much needed book. Pease’s ground-breaking offering reminds us of the importance of emphasizing a rich gendered understanding of men’s violence against women. Indeed, as he correctly points out, we cannot understand and eliminate woman abuse without recognizing that a substantial number of male actions, values and beliefs are micro-social expressions of broader patriarchal forces. Facing Patriarchy is destined