Men and Masculinities at the Margins: Decolonial and Intersectional Approaches (Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality)

Addressing the longstanding shortcomings of theorising on men, masculinity and gender relations by examining how power operates through marginal positions, this book explores how masculinities are constructed, marginalised, and resisted across a wide range of geographies by bringing intersectionality and decoloniality into sustained dialogue. Men and Masculinities at the Margins moves beyond understandings of masculine marginality as a fixed condition to instead distinguish between margins as relational positions and marginalisation as historically situated processes shaped by inequality and power.In doing so, it places hegemonic masculinity under critical scrutiny, revealing both its continued relevance and its conceptual limitations.The contributions to this volume empirically ground engagements with this perspective, drawing on research from across the Global South and North to reveal how the processes of marginalisation are linked to colonial legacies, racialisation, class, precari