Jeff Hearn

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Jeff(ery) Richard Hearn (born August 5, 1947) is a British sociologist and one of the founders of Critical studies on men.

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[edit] Biography

Hearn did his MA - specialised and Thesis in Organisational Sociology - at the Department of Management Studies of the University of Leeds. He received a PhD on Social Theory, Social Planning and Theories of Patriarchy at the University of Bradford 1986. His first published book was in 1983, a materialist analysis of men's relations to children, followed by the book, “'Sex' at 'Work'”, authored with Wendy Parkin, in 1987, on the power and paradox of 'organisation sexuality', and then “The Gender of Oppression”, a neo-marxist, pro-feminist critique of contemporary patriarchy in the same year.

Hearn has been Lecturer, Senior-Lectorer, Research Fellow, Visiting Professor, Professor and the like at universities in Bradford, Manchester, Sunderland, Åbo, Oslo and elsewhere. He is currently teaching as a professor at the "Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration" in Helsinki.

Jeff Hearn is a member of the British Sociological Association, since 2005 member of the Conference and Events Committee of BSA. He is co-editor

  • Men and Masculinities, Sage, London, ISSN 1097-184X

associate editor of:

  • Gender, Work and Organization, Blackwell, Oxford. (1994-), ISSN 0968-6673

and member of the editorial board of several other important journals of social science, e.g.:

  • Leadership, Sage, London, ISSN 1742-7150
  • Sexualities: Studies in Culture and Society, Sage, London, ISSN 1363-4607

[edit] Critical studies on men

During and after the time of his studies Jeff Hearn has been an active member of the profeminist men’s movement. With David Morgan, Colin Creighton, Chris Middleton, Ray Thomas and Clive Pearson, he initiated some ground rules for the study of men and masculinity, published as ‘Changing men's sexist practice in sociology’, Network, No 25, January 1983. Following work in the Men and Masculinity Research/Study Group at Bradford, the principles were developed and published in Achilles' Heel in 1987, and 3 years later Hearn and Morgan appended a sixth in the book "Men, Masculinities and Social Theory".
The principles in short: Critical studies on men should be profeminist and respect the autonomy of feminism/women's studies; critical especially to men's practices, interdisciplinary and use various methods; reflexive also to its own research.

[edit] Research focus

  • Critical studies on men, including men's violences to women and children;
  • Sociology of organisations and management, including gender, sexuality and violence in and around organisations;
  • Globalisation and transnationalism, with a focus on men, organisations, management and social welfare;
  • Social theory;
  • Sociology of culture.

[edit] Research and politics

With his qualifications as researcher and expert in fields of gender and organizational studies Hearn took part on several projects of different governments, political institutions and ngos, e.g.:

  • EU-Project CROME - Critical Research On Men In Europe, a comparative studies of the situation of men in europe.
  • National Expert, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Finland, Seminar for Joint Project between the United States and Finland concerning the Advancement of Women in the Baltic Countries, Riga, March 1999.
  • Member of international expert group for UNICEF, Swedish Government and SIDA (Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency) Ending Gender-based Violence (2001-2004) presented to UN March 2004.
  • Invited expert of Amnesty International Finland to provide public responses on “Questions on violence” as part of international anti-violence Internet campaign.
  • Founder member and member of Board of profeministimiehet in 1999, a profeminist group of men in Helsinki.

[edit] Literature

  • Jeff Hearn: Men in the Public Eye. The Construction and Deconstruction of Public Men and Public Patriarchies, London/New York 1992, ISBN 0-415-07620-X
  • Jeff Hearn: The Violences of Men. How Men Talk About and How Agencies Respond to Men's Violence to Women, London 1998, ISBN 0-8039-7940-1
  • Jeff Hearn, Jennie Popay, Jeanette Edwards (Hg.): Men, Gender Divisions and Welfare, London/New York 1998, ISBN 0-415-11971-5
  • Jeff Hearn, W.Parkin: Gender, Sexuality and Violence in Organizations: the Unspoken Forces of Organization Violations, London 2001, ISBN 0-7619-5912-2
  • Jeff Hearn, T. Heiskanen (Hg.): Information Society and the Workplace: Spaces, Boundaries and Agency, London 2004, ISBN 0-415-27223-8

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