Routledge Handbook on Men, Masculinities and Organizations: Theories, Practices and Futures of Organizing

Jeff Hearn · Kadri Aavik · David L. Collinson · Anika Thym

Nov 2023 · Taylor & Francis

About this ebook

This Handbook provides new theoretical and empirical insights into men, men’s practices and masculinities across many kinds of organizations and forms of organizing. Most mainstream studies of organizations, leadership and management do not seem to notice they are often talking a lot about men and masculinities. The Handbook challenges this general tendency to avoid gendering men by bringing together a range of theoretical and methodological approaches that:

• engage with not only formal organizations, such as businesses and state organizations, but also processes of organizing within and beyond organizations;
• address emergent and future issues on men, masculinities and organizations, such as tech masculinities, men’s emotions, sexualities and violences, animal advocacy and environmental issues, and men and masculinities in pandemics.

Targeted at scholars, policymakers, practitioners and students interested in links between men, masculinities, organizations and organizing, this landmark Handbook is an invaluable resource for those working in and beyond such fi elds as gender studies, organization, leadership and management studies, political science, sociology, social and public policy, and social movement studies.

About the author

Jeff Hearn is Professor Emeritus of Management and Organization at Hanken School of Economics, Finland; Senior Professor of Human Geography at Örebro University, Sweden; and Professor of Sociology at the University of Huddersfield, UK.

Kadri Aavik is Associate Professor of Gender Studies at Tallinn University, Estonia.

David L. Collinson is Distinguished Professor of Leadership and Organization at Lancaster University Management School.

Anika Thym is completing her PhD in Gender Studies at the University of Basel, Switzerland.