Jeff Hearn

Violence

I realized some while ago that it was not really possible to study men and masculinities critically without also studying violence critically. Thus, studies on violence, and anti-violence, have been a long-running interest and driver. The earlier focus was on sexual harassment (with Wendy Parkin) and child abuse (with the Violence Against Children Study Group), and then historical changes in how violence was constructed (as in the book, Men in the Public Eye), but from the early 1990s it was men’s violence against known women that became the central concern – with important collaborations with Jalna Hanmer and other colleagues. This led onto the book, The Violences of Men, and various empirical, theoretical and policy studies. More recently, online/digital violence and comparative and transnational studies have been foregrounded, including in the first case, in work with Matthew Hall and Ruth Lewis, and in the second under the frame of violence regimes, with Sofia Strid and Anne Laure Humbert and in the edited collection, Interconnecting the Violences of Men, with Kate Seymour, Bob Pease and Sofia Strid.

Selected Works