New Labour and the politics of masculinity

Scourfield, Jonathan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6218-8158 and Drakeford, Mark 2001. New Labour and the politics of masculinity. [Working Paper]. School of Social Sciences Working Papers Series, vol. 13. Cardiff: Cardiff University.

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Abstract

The New Labour government has arguably broken new ground by making ‘masculinity policy’. Whereas the policy process is always inevitably gendered, with implications for men as well as women, it is only in the last few years that a government has made quite such explicit references to men in some areas of policy. The most high profile initiatives have been in relation to fathering and to the education of boys. In this paper we make out a case that New Labour proceeds with policy optimism about men in the home and pessimism about men outside the home. In contrast, there has been policy pessimism about women in the home and optimism about women outside the home. Where New Labour is optimistic, it tends to produce policies that are encouraging and facilitative, and where New Labour is pessimistic, it can produce policies that are authoritarian.

Item Type:	Monograph (Working Paper)
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Publisher:	Cardiff University
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	30 March 2016
Last Modified:	28 Oct 2022 10:22
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/78048

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