Introduction

Abstract

The Introduction outlines the central themes and research questions of the book. The book examines the contemporary politics of gender by analysing men’s movements, their politics, and the identities they (re)construct. Investigating men’s explicit mobilisations around masculine identities and ‘men’s issues’ is an important aspect of interrogating the varying ways in which a politics of masculinity has been invoked. The book extends understandings of men’s movements in the under-researched UK context including ‘feminist’, ‘postfeminist’ and ‘backlash’ movements. The main empirical contribution is a nuanced, empirically grounded, account of fathers’ rights perspectives and the contemporary politics of fatherhood. The argument and structure of the book are outlined, along with the theoretical framework, which draws on critical masculinities and gender scholarship.