Interconnecting the Violences of Men : Continuities and Intersections in Research, Policy and Activism

This book aims to expand and enrich understandings of violences by focusing on gendered continuities, interconnections and intersections across multiple forms and manifestations of men’s violence. In actively countering, both, the compartmentalisation of studies of violence by ‘type’ and form, and the tendency to conceptualise violence narrowly, it aims to flesh out – not delimit – understandings of violence.

Bringing together cross-disciplinary, indeed transdisciplinary, perspectives, this book addresses how –what are often seen as – specific and separate violences connect closely and intricately with wider understandings of violence, how there are gendered continuities between violences and how gendered violences take many forms and manifestations and are themselves intersectional. Grounded by the recognition that violence is, itself, a form of inequality, the contributors to this volume traverse the intersectional complexities across, both, experiences of violent inequality, and what is seen to ‘count’ as violence.

The international scope of this book will be of interest to students and academics across many fields, including sociology, criminology, psychology, social work, politics, gender studies, child and youth studies, military and peace studies, environmental studies and colonial studies, as well as practitioners, activists and policymakers engaged in violence prevention.

Kate Seymour is a senior social work academic and criminologist at Flinders University, South Australia, whose work focuses on the socio-cultural contexts for violence. Her research builds on her own experience in direct practice with men who use violence as well as her theoretical grounding across the fields of social work and criminology. Her recent book, with Sarah Wendt and Kris Natalier, Responding to Domestic Violence: Difficult Conversations, was published in 2023.

Bob Pease is an honorary professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Deakin University and an adjunct professor in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Tasmania. He has published extensively on masculinity politics and critical social work practice. His most recent books include Undoing Privilege (revised edition) (2022) and Posthumanism and the Man Question: Beyond Anthropocentric Masculinities, co-editor (2023).

Sofia Strid is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Work Science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Strid has worked extensively on developing concepts, methodologies and policy for theorising, measuring and preventing gender-based violence. Her work has been published in Journal of European Social Policy, Journal of Sex Research, Politics and Governance, Social Politics, Social Problems, Sociology, Theory and Society, and Violence against Women.

Jeff Hearn is Professor Emeritus, Hanken School of Economics, Finland; Senior Professor, Human Geography, Orebro University, Sweden; and Professor of Sociology, University of Huddersfield, UK. Recent books include Digital Gender-Sexual Violations, with Matthew Hall and Ruth Lewis (2022), and Routledge Handbook on Men, Masculinities and Organizations, co-edited with Kadri Aavik, David L. Collinson and Anika Thym (2024).