Men, Masculinities and Intimate Partner Violence

Lucas Gottzén is Professor at the Department of Child and Youth Studies, Stockholm University, Sweden. Margunn Bjørnholt is a sociologist and a Research Professor at the Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies (NKVTS) in Oslo, Norway. Floretta Boonzaier is Professor at the Department of Psychology, University of Cape Town, South Africa and Co-Director of the Hub for Decolonial Feminist Psychologies in Africa.

1. Introduction: What Has Masculinity to Do with Intimate Partner Violence?

2. ‘A Life of Violence’: Some Theoretical/Political/Personal Accountings on ‘Masculinities’ and ‘Intimate Partner Violence’

3. Theorising Masculinity and Intimate Partner Violence

4. Men from the South: Feminist, Decolonial and Intersectional Perspectives on Men, Masculinities and Intimate Partner Violence

5. The Rape Capital or the Most Gender-equal Country in the World? Masculinity, Hybridity and Young Men’s Intimate Partner Violence in Sweden

6. Masculinist Discourses on Intimate Partner Violence: Antifeminist Men Defending White Heterosexual Male Supremacy

7. Behind Closed Doors: Hegemonic Masculinities, Romantic Love, and Sexual Violence in Gay Relationships

8. Exploring Trans Men’s Experiences of Intimate Partner Violence Through the Lens of Cisgenderism

9. Male Victims of Violence and Men’s Rights Struggles: A Perfect Match?

10. Considering ‘Treatment’ and Gender in Programmes for Intimate Partner Violence Perpetrators

11. Engaging Men and Boys in Violence Prevention

12. Positioning as a Tool in Work with Fathers Who Have Been Violent in the Family

13. Re-Envisioning Interventions for Partner Violent Men in the Global South Through Decolonial Feminist Praxes

14. Rethinking Masculinities, Culture and Interventions with Partner-violent Men in Brazil