Ana Jordan

• PhD in Politics
• Associate Professor at University of Lincoln

This mixed-methods study examined couples' relationship quality, satisfaction and well-being by comparing semi-traditional, equal-sharing and role-reversed couples. Quantitative analysis involved 2813 parents (1380 men, 1433 women) with at least one child aged 11 or under who were primary caregivers, primary breadwinners or equal-sharers. Qualitati...

This mixed-methods study explored the centrality and meanings of men’s and women’s parental and work-related identities by comparing semi-traditional, equal-sharing, and role-reversed couples. Quantitative analysis involved 2,813 British parents (1,380 men, 1,433 women) who were primary caregivers, primary breadwinners, or equal sharers with at lea...

This is the first comprehensive analysis of GBV policies in UK universities based on 129 universities’ policies (out of 133 approached) across England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales gathered between September 2019 and February 2020 to map how robust policies are across the sector, identifying best practice and common missteps. The aim is to...

Suicide is a major public health concern, patterned by systematic inequalities, with lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT+) people being one example of a minoritised group that is more likely to think about and attempt suicide worldwide. To address this, UK national suicide prevention policies have suggested that LGBT+ people should be prioritise...

Suicide prevention policies set out government strategies and priorities for action and in doing so construct meanings, legitimise knowledge and frame possibilities. Despite their importance, prevention policies remain underexamined and taken for granted. Using Bacchi's poststructuralist ‘What's The Problem Represented To Be’ approach we critically...

This mixed-methods study compared couples in which childcare responsibilities are shared equally, or assumed primarily by the father, with more traditional arrangements. Combining survey data from a nationally representative sample of British parents as well as in-depth interviews with couples with young children, the study found that both fathers...

Research on ‘lad culture’ and gender-based violence (GBV) in student communities has examined ‘hypermasculine’ gender performances, with little attention paid to hierarchies of masculinity. We explore ‘lad culture’ by analysing qualitative, in-depth interviews with students. Our findings challenge simplistic constructions of ‘good guys’ as allies/p...

Purpose With encouragement from the World Health Organisation, national suicide prevention policies have come to be regarded as an essential component of the global effort to reduce suicide. However, despite their global significance, the construction, conceptualisation and proposed provisions offered in suicide prevention policies have, to date, b...

This article extends our understanding of how university students make sense of, and respond to, sexual violence in the night-time economy (NTE). Based on semi-structured interviews with 26 students in a city in England, we examine students’ constructions of their experiences of sexual violence within the NTE, exploring their negotiations with, and...

This chapter focuses on postfeminist men’s movements, presenting a detailed examination of the male suicide prevention charity, the Campaign Against Living Miserably. The qualitative analysis of their online materials suggests that CALM constructs masculinity in different ways, sometimes advocating a ‘new’, gentler masculinity, and at other times r...

This chapter unpacks the definition of men’s movements employed in the book. Common features of men’s movements are that: they organise around the identity of being ‘men’; they assume that there are distinctive ‘men’s issues’ and ‘men’s interests’; and they all articulate a standpoint on feminism (Jordan in Political Stud. 62: 83–98, 2014). Men’s m...

This chapter analyses masculinity ‘in crisis’, an idea which has shaped, and been shaped by, men’s movements. Recurring crisis-of-masculinity narratives throughout history are discussed, suggesting that ‘crisis’ is internal to masculinity. Contemporary men-in-crisis debates are also reviewed, especially regarding men and work, and male suicide. A d...

Chapter 6 and this chapter critically examine backlash men’s movements, especially fathers’ rights groups and the politics of fatherhood. Both chapters are based on in-depth, qualitative analysis of interviews with members of (Real) Fathers 4 Justice. This chapter explores (R)F4J’s construction of ‘hypermasculinity’; the associated idea of the ‘fat...

The conclusion considers implications of the findings for understanding the cumulative politics of backlash, postfeminist and feminist men’s movements. The analysis suggests the partial contestation of dominant gender discourses in contemporary narratives of masculinity articulated within and beyond men’s movements. Overall, however, men’s groups,...

Chapter 7 and this chapter critically examine backlash men’s movements, especially fathers’ rights groups and the politics of fatherhood. Both chapters are based on in-depth, qualitative analysis of interviews with members of (Real) Fathers 4 Justice. This chapter explores two of three masculinities identified: ‘bourgeois-rational’ and ‘new man/new...

This chapter examines feminist men’s movements and discusses key insights/debates from existing men’s movements scholarship. An in-depth analysis of the White Ribbon Campaign UK’s online materials examines how they construct masculinity and their gender politics. WRC demonstrates the potential of feminist men’s activism, championing feminist analys...

This book makes a unique contribution to contemporary research into masculinities, men’s movements, and fathers’ rights groups. It examines the role of changing masculinities in creating equality and/or reinforcing inequality by analysing diverse men’s movements, their politics, and the identities they (re)construct. Jordan advances a typology for...

This book makes a unique contribution to contemporary research into masculinities, men’s movements, and fathers’ rights groups. It examines the role of changing masculinities in creating equality and/or reinforcing inequality by analysing diverse men’s movements, their politics, and the identities they (re)construct. Jordan advances a typology for...

High male suicide rates are often constructed as evidence for an apparent ‘crisis of masculinity’. Conversely, ‘crisis of masculinity’ has been used to explain differential rates of male and female suicide in the UK (and elsewhere). We analyse three public cases where male suicide and ‘masculinity-crisis’ discourse are employed together. Our femini...

This chapter presents findings from the ‘Stand Together’ action research project at the University of Lincoln (UOL), one of the first bystander intervention (BI) programmes designed to challenge gender based violence (GBV) in a UK university. The research accompanying this project investigated student attitudes to GBV and the potential of preventio...

Until recently, higher education in the United Kingdom has largely failed to recognise gender based violence (GBV) on campus, but following the UK government task force set up in 2015, universities are becoming more aware of the issue. And recent cases in the media about the sexualised abuse of power in institutions such as universities, Parliament...

This chapter presents findings from the ‘Stand Together’ action research project at the University of Lincoln (UOL), one of the first bystander intervention (BI) programmes designed to challenge gender-based violence (GBV) in a UK university. The research accompanying this project investigated student attitudes to GBV and the potential of preventio...

This article contributes to theoretical debates around caring masculinity, especially attempts to integrate feminist ethics of care with masculinities scholarship. I apply ethics of care and masculinities theories to an illustrative case study of fathers’ rights group (FRG), (Real) Fathers 4 Justice, who, I argue, employ aspects of care perspective...

Conceptualizing "backlash" and "postfeminism" is important to understanding the gender politics of men's movements and men's rights groups. Drawing on the work of relevant (feminist) scholars, I argue for a particular understanding of both backlash and postfeminism and map out a typology intended to help situate different men's movements. The typol...

Fathers' rights groups have been characterised by some feminist academics as part of an anti‐feminist ‘backlash’, responding to a perceived crisis of masculinity through a problematic politics of fatherhood aimed at (re)asserting control over women and children. This article analyses the construction of gender and masculinity/ies within fathers' ri...

Constructions of fatherhood are key signifiers of masculinity/ies and, in the context of a new politics of fatherhood, these constructions have been articulated in opposition both to motherhood and femininity/ies and to ideas of the ‘deadbeat dad’ (Collier 2006, Gavanas 2004, Kaye and Tolmie 1998). The fathers' rights movement has contributed to th...