Emerald Advances in Masculinities explores diverse and critical discussions of masculinities. This series offers a platform for alternative perspectives, engaging with key concepts and methodologies in the study of men and masculinities. It welcomes monographs, edited collections, and handbooks from leading and emerging scholars.
Aims and scope
We publish books from scholars across the world in fields ranging from criminology, sociology, psychology, law, and critical gender studies and beyond, as well as those using trans- and inter- disciplinary perspectives.
We encourage research conducted by sole authors as well as collaborative research that shares methods and conceptual frameworks across disciplines in the synthesis of knowledge and that provides a holistic perspective when researching masculinities.
Emerald Advances in Masculinities provides a platform for innovative research methods that explore a range of differing perspectives that relate to critical research on masculinities across settings that include, but are not limited to:
- Prisons
- Spaces of confinement
- Detention
- Risk
- Migration
- Education
- Employment
- Consumption
- Leisure
- Sport
- Technology
- Surveillance
- Health
Key topics
We are interested in receiving submissions in topics including, but not limited to:
- Carceral geography and issues of space and place
- Comparative research on masculinities
- Crime, punishment, penology and masculinities
- Education and masculinities
- Gender-transformation, masculinities and young people
- Health practices and masculinities
- Identity, body and impression management across space and time
- LGBTQ+ people, identity, and masculinities
- Masculinities and digital societies
- Masculinities and war
- Masculinities and the changing nature of employment
- Masculinities and the family
- Masculinities in the context of borders, migration, and detention
- Media representations of masculinities
- Mental, physical and social health
- Sexuality and masculinities
- Surveillance and the online world
- Technology, masculinities and justice
- Theoretical explorations of critical masculinities
We encourage authors globally to contact us as the hope is to create a truly international series on masculinities. We actively encourage proposals from scholars in the global south.
This title is aligned with our fairer society goal
We are passionate about working with researchers globally to deliver a fairer, more inclusive society. This perhaps has never been more important than in today’s divided world.