Journal of Femininities. Editors: Karen Blair and Rhea Ashley Hoskin (Web)
The new Journal of Femininities is the first academic journal devoted to the study of Femininities and uniquely offers an outlet for scholarship on femininity. The Journal of Femininities cultivates and unifies the field of Femininities by publishing content that advances theories and methods in the study of femininity. The journal seeks to challenge and re-examine the taken-for-granted norms and associations of femininity and to treat Femininities as an academic discipline similar to others that focus on particular social dimensions. Articles contribute to deeper and more complex understandings of femininity. Read more … (Web)
Special issue on „Femininities and the making of Masculinities“
Proposals by: 20.04.2026
Femininity has long structured the study of men and masculinities; yet, it often remains unnamed, undertheorized, or displaced (Allan, 2025). Masculinity is routinely constructed through femininity: defined against it and disciplined by its abjection. As scholars have noted, femininity operates as a regulatory tool in the production of masculinity, shaping hierarchies, exclusion, and even violence (Kimmel, 1997; 2013; Hoskin, 2020; Hoskin et al., 2024). It is ever-present yet elusive – a ghost that haunts masculinities, and a crack in the armour that reveals masculinity’s fragility (Dahl, 2017).
Men’s relationships to femininity are complex and contradictory, much like the construction of femininity itself (Hoskin and Courtice, 2026; Hoskin et al., 2023). On the one hand, femininity is mobilized to justify misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, sexual violence, and gender policing, particularly within sites such as the manosphere, rape culture, nationalist or authoritarian politics (McWebb et al., 2026; Padda et al., 2026). On the other hand, men are themselves targets of femmephobia, with femininity operating as a key axis of stigma, regulation, and exclusion. The enduring insults of pussy or fag (Pascoe, 2007) are not simply homophobic but a femmephobic tactic of policing femininity in men. Research has found that men attribute their experiences of gender-based violence to femininity (Sinacore et al., 2021) and femmephobic attitudes better predict homophobic aggression than homophobia itself (Hoskin et al., 2024). In short, Continue reading

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