Book Launch – Facing Patriarchy: From a Violent Gender Order to a Culture of Peace
by Bob Peace
Mon 18 Nov 2019
6pm for 6:30
Readings Carlton — 309 Lygon St, Carlton, Victoria, 3053
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Join Bob Pease to launch his new book, Facing Patriarchy: From a Violent Gender Order to a Culture of Peace. This book rethinks men’s violence against women, bringing together interactionist, structural, and intersectional and transnational feminist theory.
The book will be launched by Dr Meagan Tyler from RMIT University. Wine will be provided. RSPV to Bob Pease [email protected]
‘A welcome addition to our toolkit for challenging men to be fully human.’ Robert Jensen, University of Texas
Facing Patriarchy challenges current thinking about men’s violence against women. Drawing upon radical and intersectional feminist theory and critical masculinity studies, the book locates men’s violence within the structures and processes of patriarchy. Addressing the limitations of current violence prevention policies, Bob Pease argues that a nuanced conceptualisation of patriarchy, that accounts for a variety of patriarchal structures, intersections with other forms of inequality, patriarchal ideologies, men’s peer group relations, men’s sexist practices and the construction of patriarchal subjectivities, is required to understand the links between gender and men’s violence against women.
Pease shows that men’s violence against women needs to be understood in the context of other forms of men’s violence, including violence against boys and other men, in the involvement of men in wars and conflicts between nations and men’s ecologically destructive practices which constitute a form of slow violence. With crucial implications for priorities in violence prevention, gender equality promotion and in strategies for engaging men in this work, Facing Patriarchy offers new hope for the elimination of men’s violence.
This is an essential book for scholars, practitioners, activists and policy makers involved in violence prevention in national and international contexts.
About the Speakers
Bob Pease is Honorary Professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Deakin University and Adjunct Professor in the Institute for the Study of Social Change at the University of Tasmania. His previous works include Undoing Privilege (Zed 2010); A Man’s World? Changing Men’s Practices in a Globalized World (co-editor, Zed 2001); Men, Masculinities and Methodologies (co-editor 2013) and Men, Masculinities and Disaster (co-editor, 2016). He has been actively involved in feminist politics for many years, and was a founding member of Men Against Sexual Assault in Melbourne.
Dr Meagan Tyler is a Senior Lecturer at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. Her research interests are mainly based around feminist and gender inequality in a range of contexts. Her work in these areas has been widely published, including in Rural Studies, Women’s Studies International Forum, Violence Against Women, and Women and Therapy as well as several edited collections including Everyday Pornography (Boyle ed 2010) and Prostitution, Harm and Gender Inequality (Coy ed., 2012) and Freedom Fallacy: The Limits of Liberal Feminism (Kiraly & Tyler, ed. 2015).
