The editors of Emotions and Society invite submissions for the special issue ‘Masculinities and Emotions: Changing Times and Contexts’
Learn more here: https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/emsoc/emsoc-overview.xml?tab_body=call-for-papers
Abstract submission deadline: 15 July 2025
Guest edited by: Roger Patulny, Hong Kong Baptist University and Fiona McQueen, Edinburgh Napier University
We invite proposals for papers drawing on sociological perspectives that will address a range of potentially important questions in this area, including:
• Masculinity and affective politics
• Multiple masculinities and feelings
• Masculine emotional regimes
• Collective emotions and men’s movements
• Theorising masculinity and emotion
• How men manage and hide emotions
• Men's social isolation and loneliness
• Men’s emotions, women’s outcomes
• Queer masculinities and emotions
• Boyhood feelings
• Older men and emotional precocity
• Father’s feelings
• Changing families, intimacies and masculinities
• Men’s emotional performances in online spaces
• Working Class Men and their emotions
• Migrant masculinities and emotion
• Emotions in the manosphere
If you are interested in this call for papers, please submit your abstract (200-300 words) no later than 15 July 2025 to the Guest Editors Roger Patulny (rpatulny@hkbu.edu.hk) and Fiona McQueen (f.mcqueen@napier.ac.uk).
Read the full call for papers for background to the call and key dates and deadlines: https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/emsoc/emsoc-overview.xml?tab_body=call-for-papers
You may also want to review Emotions and Society’s instructions for authors: https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/emsoc/emsoc-overview.xml?tab_body=instructions-for-authors