Newcastle University

Professor Richard Collier’s new book Men, Law and Gender: Essays on the ‘Man’ of Law has just been published by Routledge.

The book, which builds on Professor Collier’s extensive work on law and gender, and his 2008 book Fragmenting Fatherhood (with Sally Sheldon), presents the first published comprehensive overview and critical assessment of the relationship between law and masculinities. It provides a general introduction to the subject whilst engaging with the difficult question of what it means to speak of the masculinity of law in the first place. One reviewer notes:

"In this extraordinarily original and provocative book, Richard Collier clearly establishes the terms for future debates about legal and social constructions of masculinity and the relationship between law, gender, and men ... In a strikingly creative series of chapters, Collier provides the reader with compelling assessments of how recent cultural, social, and economic transformations have profoundly altered men's expectations and aspirations for themselves and others. Collier's complex and sophisticated approach to masculinity presents a needed challenge to outmoded ways of thinking about men and gender... it is an inspiration for future work across the disciplines"  Martha Albertson Fineman, Robert W. Woodruff Professor at Emory University, School of Law. 

You can see Professor Collier’s Newcastle Law School profile here, order ‘Men, Law and Gender’ on Routledge’s website, and download a poster on the book here.