This article explores the role of public engagement by select committees of the House of Commons. It shows that committees’ public engagement activity has been transformed since 1979, when departmental select committees were introduced. We start by outlining the different elements of public engagement, showing that it entails a wide range of types of activity…Continue Reading How Public Engagement Became a Core Part of the House of Commons Select Committees
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Masculinizing Care? Gender, Ethics of Care, and Fathers’ Rights Groups
This article contributes to theoretical debates around caring masculinity, especially attempts to integrate feminist ethics of care with masculinities scholarship. I apply ethics of care and masculinities theories to an illustrative case study of fathers’ rights group (FRG), (Real) Fathers 4 Justice, who, I argue, employ aspects of care perspectives framed as a “new man/new…Continue Reading Masculinizing Care? Gender, Ethics of Care, and Fathers’ Rights Groups