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33 Harv. J.L. & Gender 431 (2010)
Masculinities, Law, and Personal Life: Towards a New Framework for Understanding Men, Law, and Gender

handle is hein.journals/hwlj33 and id is 435 raw text is: MASCULINITIES, LAW, AND PERSONAL LIFE:
TOWARDS A NEW FRAMEWORK FOR
UNDERSTANDING MEN, LAW, AND GENDER
RICHARD COLLIER*
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I.  Introduction ................... ....................   431
II. Contexts: The Masculinity Turn in Legal Scholarship .......  434
A. Men, Masculinities, and Feminist Legal Studies ........  435
III. The Critical Study of Men, Masculinities, and Law .........  444
A. Background: The Pro-Feminist Study of
M asculinities  ........................................  444
B. On the Man of Law: Legal Texts, Practices,
Experiences, and  Policy ..............................  446
C. Law, Autonomy, and the Masculine Subject: The
Example of Fatherhood ..............................  448
D. Embodiment: The Example of Men's Bodies ...........   450
E. Masculinities, Policy, and Practice: The Example of the
Legal Profession  ....................................  451
IV.  Law, Society, and  Masculinity ............................  453
A. Law and Hegemonic Masculinity .....................   454
B. Law, Discourse, and the (Masculine) Psychosocial
Subject  .............................................  460
V. Sex/Gender, Personal Life, and the Limits of Masculinity...  464
A. Gender, Embodiment, and the Sexual Divisions of
Law   ................................................  464
B. Turning Personal: Policy, Law, and Gender Neutrality .  467
C. The Problem of Masculinity ..........................  469
VI.  Concluding  Remarks .....................................  471
I. INTRODUCTION
The terms new sociology or critical study of men and masculini-
ties have been widely used, within a now voluminous body of interdiscipli-
nary theoretical and empirical research, to refer to work concerned, in
* This Article is an adaptation of an address given at the Feminist Perspectives in
Masculinities Symposium, March 26, 2010, hosted by the Harvard Journal of Law and
Gender. It draws on material contained in RICHARD COLLIER, MEN, LAW AND GENDER:
ESSAYS ON THE 'MAN' OF LAW (2010). I am grateful to the publishers for permission to
revise this work here. I would also like to thank Eleanor Simon and colleagues at
Harvard Law School for all their generous help in the editorial process.

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