Patriarchy in Practice

Nikki van der Gaag is former Director of Gender Justice and Women's Rights at Oxfam GB (2016 - 2019). She is now once again an independent consultant and writer who works primarily on gender, with a particular focus on girls and on masculinities. Her previous books include Feminism and Men (Zed, 2014) and the No-Nonsense Guide to Women's Rights (2008). Dan Nightingale is a Digital Anthropology PhD student at University College London, UK. Amir Massoumian is a social anthropologist based at SOAS University of London, UK. His work focuses on anthropological approaches to the far-right ideology, political exclusion, nostalgia, gender, body politics, and research ethics.

List of Contributors
Foreword by Andrea Cornwall
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Patriarchies in practice (Dan Nightingale, Nikki van der Gaag and Amir Massoumian)

Part 1: Backlash – From margins to mainstream
1. Alpha and nerd masculinities: Antifeminism in the digital sphere (Annie Kelly)
2. ‘Before and after #MeToo’: How French perpetrators of domestic violence perceive themselves as ‘victims of feminism’ (Cristina Oddone)
3. Phantom masculinities: Brexit, absence, and nostalgia in London pubs (Amir Massoumian)
4. Is there a ‘post-patriarchal’ Indian man? An ethnography of ‘new’ discourses of neoliberal masculinities in India (Shannon Phillip)

Part 2: Normativity and diversity
5. Tenuous masculinities: Situated agency and value of the Indonesian transgender men’s masculinities (Alvi A. H. and Hendri Yulius Wijaya)
6. ‘It’s the touch that is doing the talking’: UK sex clubs, dark rooms and the loss of masculinity (Chris Haywood)
7. Misogyny, fear or boundary maintenance? Responses to brand activism on gender diversity amongst players of Magic: The Gathering (Ceri Oeppen)
8. It takes a lot of balls to be a lady: Drag queens, masculinity and stigma (Elisa Padilla)

Part 3: Bodies and Minds
9. Sobriety, service and selfhood: Moral-existential reconfiguration of masculinity in alcoholics anonymous in a large English city (Lucy Clarke)
10 Unheard voices, untold stories; men with disabilities – The invisible victims of patriarchy, a study of Kolkata, Bengal, India (Debarati Chakraborty)
11. An interview with Ed Fornieles (Ed Fornieles, Amir Massoumian, Dan Nightingale)
12. The cultural work of hormones: The story of David and testosterone (Lauren Redfern)
Conclusion – Rupture and renewal, accountability and agency (Nikki van der Gaag, Amir Massoumian, Dan Artus)

Index