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Gendered Selves, Gendered Subjects: Interview Performances and Situational Contexts in Critical Interview Studies of Men and Masculinities

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The overall aim of this chapter is to discuss and deepen methodological and ethical aspects of gendered interaction in cross-gendered interviews in the field of masculinity studies. Its point of departure is a study of profeminist men in Sweden, where the power relations turned out to be of subtle character and all but one-way authoritarian (Egeberg Holmgren, 2011b). The aim of the study was to understand how young adult men1 come to call themselves feminists2; what it meant for them (somehow being ‘the second sex’ of the feminist movement); how feminism affected their relations at work and at home; and how feminism was ‘done’ in their everyday lives in a Swedish society that embraces gender-equality politics.

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  1. Linn Egeberg Holmgren
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  1. Griffith University, Australia

    Barbara Pini

  2. Deakin University, Australia

    Bob Pease

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Holmgren, L.E. (2013). Gendered Selves, Gendered Subjects: Interview Performances and Situational Contexts in Critical Interview Studies of Men and Masculinities. In: Pini, B., Pease, B. (eds) Men, Masculinities and Methodologies. Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137005731_7

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