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Men’s Friendships as Feminist Politics?

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Abstract

This chapter introduces the theme of investigating men’s friendships from feminist perspectives. The chapter outlines how men’s friendships have been studied elsewhere and how debates around gender and friendship have developed, and it argues that feminist research on men’s friendships is long overdue. The Swedish context is presented, as is research on the production of more or less progressive or egalitarian masculine positions. The 20 men whose stories are explored throughout the book are introduced, and dyadic and individual interviews as well as the meaning-making and positioning during interviews are discussed. The chapter concludes with summaries of the contents of the book.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    “Gender-equal” may seem strange to use as an adjective about a group of people since it describes a relationship. In the Swedish debate, this paradoxical use of “gender equality” is evident in the adjectivisation of gender equality into gender-equal (jämställdhet into jämställd), a concept that is frequently used for individuals and groups of men. In my view, “gender-equal” connects gender equality to specific persons who can then be distinguished from people who are deemed less gender-equal, less associated with the Swedish gender equality project. This becomes a way of essentialising and pinning down the meaning of gender equality and makes it possible to be already equal, without the need to adjust or answer to feminist critique. I choose to stay with this contradictory use of this concept in order to capture aspects of the Swedish discourse about men and gender equality.

  2. 2.

    As Swedish ethnographer Barbro Klein argues, transcription is an “analytical act” (1990, 41). In accordance with this notion, I did all transcription work myself, then translated the quotes in collaboration with a professional English language editor. In the quotes presented in the book, the symbol … indicates a short pause, while […] indicates that a passage of speech has been cut or [inserted].

  3. 3.

    The interviewees’ occupations were the following: actor, administrator, book editor, coach for young people, data programmer, director of studies at a university, economist, IT consultant, journalist, music composer, musician, paralegal, PhD student, photographer, researcher, student and activist, train driver, TV producer.

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