Masculinity, War and Violence

Ann-Dorte Christensen is Professor and Director of the Centre for Masculinity Studies in the Department of Sociology and Social Work at Aalborg University, Denmark. She is the co-editor of NORMA: International Journal for Masculinity Studies. She has written on hegemonic masculinity and intersectionality, masculinity ideals, violence in left wing movements, and marginalized masculinities. Palle Rasmussen is Professor of Education and Learning Research in the Department of Learning and Philosophy at Aalborg University, Denmark, where he directs the Centre for Education Policy and Evaluation Research. His research areas include education policy, lifelong learning, professional education, gender and education, and social theory, and he has published extensively in these fields.

• Introduction: War, violence and masculinities 1. Occupying masculinities: fathering in the Palestinian territories 2. Understanding masculine identity among anti-war veterans 3. War-image as affect, war-image as spectacle in turn-of-the-millennium Hollywood: how are violent masculinities expressed? 4. Sounds of the Cold War: gendered submarine narratives 5. Black radical masculinities in American warfare: reconfiguring resistance in the body of Muhammad Ali towards exile 6. Violent potentials: exploring the intersection of violence and masculinity among the Bugkalot 7. The Tupamaros: re-gendering an ungendered guerrilla movement 8. Militarized masculinities, heroes and gender inequality during and after the nationalist struggle in Zimbabwe 9. Making men and masculinities visible: a macro level enquiry into conceptualizations of gender and violence in Indian policies