Masculinity, War and Violence

This book analyses masculinity, war, and violence in terms of public policies; resistance and independence movements; and masculine subjectivities, mobilization processes, and radicalization. It covers four recurring themes: violent masculinity and how society copes with violent rituals and violence against women; written and visual fiction about war and masculinity; gender relations in social movements; and masculinity in civil society under conditions of war and post-war. The book emphasizes the importance of understanding global and local masculinity in the context of other social factors. This book was published as a special issue of NORMA: International Journal for Masculinity Studies.

Addressing the relationship between masculinity, war, and violence, this book covers these themes broadly and across different disciplines. These analyses are located at different levels: public policies at the macro level; resistance and independence movements at the meso level; and masculine subjectivities, processes of mobilization, and radicalization at the micro level.

The ten contributions encompass four recurring themes: violent masculinities and how contemporary societies and regimes cope with traditional violent rituals and extreme violence against women; popular written and visual fiction about war and masculine rationalities; gender relations in social movements of rebellion and national transformation; and masculinity in civil society under conditions of war and post-war. Taking into account different geographical contexts, the book emphasizes the relationship between the local and the global as well as the importance of understanding gender and masculinity in their intersectional interrelations with religion, race, ethnicity, class, and locality. This book was originally published as a special issue of NORMA: International Journal for Masculinity Studies.