Men, Law and Gender: Essays on the æManÆ of Law

This book presents the first published comprehensive overview and critical assessment of the relationship between law and masculinities. It provides a general introduction to the subject whilst, via a series of interlinked readings, engaging with the difficult question of what it means to speak of the masculinity of law in the first place. As a study of the bigger picture of the relationship between men and law, the result is an innovative, timely and important text which has the potential to reach diverse readership within the sub-fields of legal studies and across other disciplines.

Richard Collier is Professor of Law at the University of Newcastle, UK.

Introduction; Rethinking the man question in legal studies - theorising masculinities and law; Masculinities, gender and the legal profession; Gentlemen scholars; Masculinities, law and the family man; Changing law, changing men?; Rethinking the masculine other; Concluding remarks