New Politics of Fatherhood

Ana Jordan is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Lincoln, UK.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Gender, Social Movements and the Politics of Backlash.- 3. Masculinities in Crisis?.- 4. Feminist Men’s Movements: The White Ribbon Campaign (UK) and the dilemmas of feminist men.- 5. Postfeminist Men’s Movements: The Campaign Against Living Miserably and male suicide as “crisis”.- 6. Backlash Men’s Movements Part 1: (Real) Fathers 4 Justice, bourgeois-rational and new man/new father masculinities.- 6. Backlash Men’s Movements Part 2: (Real) Fathers 4 Justice, hypermasculinity, and fathers as superheroes.- 7. Conclusion.