Jeff Hearn

Jeff (ery) Richard Hearn (* 5. August 1947 ) is a British sociologist and one of the founders of critical men's studies (Critical studies on men) in the English-speaking world.

Life

After studying at the universities of Oxford (1965–1973) and Leeds (1973–1974) with a specialization in organizational sociology , Jeff Hearn earned a PhD in social theory and planning and patriarchy theories at Bradford University in 1986 . His first monograph Gender of Oppression , a neo-Marxist , profeminist criticism of patriarchy , appeared in 1987.

During his student days and beyond, Jeff Hearn was also active in the British men's movement and wrote, among other things, in "Achilles Heel" - the magazine of the profeminists in Great Britain  - programmatic articles on the goals of the movement and the resulting "Critical Studies of Men" (Kritische Men's research).

After positions as research fellow , professor or visiting professor at universities in Bradford , Manchester , Sunderland , Åbo , Oslo and others, Hearn currently works as a professor at the Swedish School of Commerce in Helsinki.

Jeff Hearn is the co-editor of several major social science journals, including:

• Gender , Work and Organization. Blackwell, Oxford, ISSN  0968-6673 . (1994–)
• Leadership . Sage, London, ISSN  1742-7150
• Men and Masculinities . Sage, London, ISSN  1097-184X
• Sexualities : Studies in Culture and Society. Sage, London, ISSN  1363-4607

Principles of Critical Male Research

Jeff Hearn developed five principles that should be applied to future critical research on men (first published in 1987 in Achilles Heel ):

1. Men should respect the autonomy of women's research , which is not to say, conversely, demanding autonomy in men's research.
2. Men's research should be open to women and men.
3. The primary goal of men's research is to develop a critique of male practice, at least in part from a feminist perspective.
4. Men's research is to be designed on an interdisciplinary basis .
5. Men who conduct research on men must question their research, learning, teaching and theorizing practices in order not to reproduce the patriarchal form of disinterested positivism . The aim is to increase the awareness of men.

In 1990 Jeff Hearn, together with David Morgan, added to these principles in The critique of men the points that (heterosexual) men should not apply for research grants and university posts advertised for gender studies, and that feminist science and women's studies should be included in their own research and to be supported in the institutions.

Research priorities

• Critical gender research with a focus on male violence against women and children
• Organizational sociology with a focus on gender, sexuality and violence in organizations
• Effects of globalization on men, organizations, management, and social welfare systems
• Social theory and cultural sociology

Linking research and politics

As a researcher and expert, Hearn took part in projects by various governments, political organizations and institutions on the following topics, among others:

• EU project CROME - C ritical R esearch O n M en In E urope, a comparative study on the situation of men in Europe

• Expert for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland on a project promoting women in the Baltic States (Riga, 1999)

• Member of an international group of experts (2001-2004) for UNICEF , the Swedish government and SIDA (Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency) on the subject of ending gender-based violence

• Expert for Amnesty International Finland for an international anti-violence internet campaign

• Founding member of “Profeministimiehet” in 1999, a pro-feminist activist group in Helsinki

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 (Eds.): 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 (Eds.): Information Society and the Workplace: Spaces, Boundaries and Agency , London 2004, ISBN 0-415-27223-8

Web links

• CV ( MS Word ; 172 kB) and list of publications by Hearn ( Microsoft Word documents; 317 kB)
• CROME - Critical Men's Research of the EU
• ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Achilles Heel, the magazine of the British men's movement )
• Profeministimiehet - Network of Finnish Profeminists

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jeff Hearn. Hanken School of Economics, accessed August 1, 2019 (Swedish). 
2. ↑ CROME website (link checked on August 14, 2015)