Two years ago, we started using this channel to deal with various topics relating to masculinity and sexism by writing personal, theoretical or practical texts. Significantly, we have often successfully sidestepped burning feminist questions that should immediately arise regarding masculinity: Why is there so much domestic and sexualised violence against women? Why are men violent? [...]
Here now also the complete zine from the collective "Patriarchat Zerschmetterlinge" as pdf-file. The zine itself is unfortunately only in German language. If possible, we recommend to read the rest of the texts as well and would be happy if the collective gets paid for their work. Please use the donation link in the zine or on Instagram
Zine: who cares – wer sorgt sich hier um wen? Read More »
Note: This text is an excerpt from the zine "Who Cares - Who cares about whom?" by the Patriarchat Zerschmetterlinge (Instagram: @patriarchat_zerschmetterlinge). Active listening is a conversation technique in which the listener devotes all their attention to the other person in order to try to understand them. This practice actually comes from the therapy and counselling setting, but can ...
Note: This text is an excerpt from the zine "Who Cares - Who cares about whom?" by the Patriarchat Zerschmetterlinge (Instagram: @patriarchat_zerschmetterlinge). The fact that emotional labour is so unequally distributed and that people feel differently responsible for it is not an unchangeable state of affairs. In order to bring about change, we believe that visibility, appreciation ...
Strategies for fairly distributed emotional labour Read More »
Note: This text is an excerpt with three of five examples from a chapter in the zine "Who Cares - Who cares about whom?" by the Patriarchat Zerschmetterlinge (Instagram: @patriarchat_zerschmetterlinge). Emotional labour takes place in many small, everyday situations. Who reflects on their own relationships? Who feels responsible for addressing something? Who cares ...
Emotional work in everyday situations Read More »
[...] Origin of the term: The term was first used by Arlie Hochschild in 1983 in the book "The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling". Hochschild differentiated between "emotional labour", i.e. emotional wage labour, and "emotional work" in the unpaid sector, which we want to consider in this zine.
What is emotional work? Read More »
Are you starting the new calendar year with new (or old) resolutions? What resolutions keep you busy in the interpersonal sphere? Have you ever intended to stay in touch with a person more? Or to address problems and deal with conflicts differently? Who takes on such tasks in your relationships with others? How, when and by whom are needs and emotions communicated?
Introduction: "WHO CARES" Zine Read More »
Marginalized masculinity highlights the linkage to other systems of oppression. As mentioned in the last text, in the 8th chapter of her book "Masculinities" Connell deals in detail with different processes of formation and shaping of masculinities. In doing so, masculinity and femininity are understood as gender projects that are not rigid but are in an ongoing interaction with their emergence, historical contexts, and environments. [...]
Intersectionality in the formation of masculinities Read More »
What Connell is best known for is her concept of "Hegemonic Masculinity," which will be introduced in this text. She is one of the first theorists to analyze masculinity by focusing on hierarchies and power relations of men. She acknowledges the importance of distinguishing different masculinities in the context of prevailing systems of oppression. However, she argues that ...
Hegemonic Masculinity Read More »
What actually is masculinity? Is masculinity what men are like? Or what men are supposed to be like? Or is masculinity simply that which is not feminine? And is masculinity defined by the superiority of men over women? There are many different approaches to defining masculinity. As announced ...
Definition of masculinity Read More »