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Sociological research, influenced by feminist and other critical perspectives, has noted how men’s emotional inexpressiveness was influenced, and supported, by patriarchal privilege. Such approaches have argued that ‘inexpression’ needs to be broken down in order to build gender equality and improve men’s own wellbeing. Emerging research has, however, challenged the argument that men are ‘emotionally inexpressive’ on two main premises: that, as a result of feminist critiques, many men now practise ‘softer’ or ‘more emotional’ forms of masculinity; second, that emotions always influence social action and so need to be better incorporated into sociological accounts of men’s behaviour. Yet these approaches entail some conceptual confusion as to what emotions are, how they link to social action and whether men’s emotions are inherently transformative for gender relations. This article first details how emotions and masculinity have been theorized in feminist-inspired approaches. It outlines recent work on emotions, men and masculinities before arguing for an understanding of emotions that engages with both physiologically grounded and postconstructionist debates. It finally suggests incorporating a material-discursive approach to men’s emotions, through feminist work on affect, which is attentive to the political dimensions of ‘increasing emotionality’ in order to contribute to a developing field of sociological research.
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Chercheuse indépendante en trans et queer studies, militante queer marxiste, dans cet article Lou Hanna tente d’établir un lien entre la transition de genre et le travail. En partant d’une analyse marxiste de l’expropriation de nos corps et de nos vies par le capitalisme néolibéral, il s’agit de tracer une continuité entre performance de genre et travail du genre. Cet article propose ainsi une conception des transidentités en rupture avec un discours hégémonique libéral qui tend à dépolitiser les acquis des luttes issus de l’activisme trans, de plus en plus axé sur une politique des droits au détriment d’une réelle politique révolutionnaire.