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‘I would love to do something about it’: young men’s role in addressing violence against women in Ireland
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2024
Authors
Bolton, Robert
Edwards, Claire
Leane, Máire
Ó Súilleabhain, Fiachra
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Bristol University Press
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This article reports on how young people (aged 18–24) and stakeholders working in the area of violence against women (VAW) in Ireland, perceive young men’s role in addressing VAW. We find that men are considered well positioned to intervene as active bystanders and to engage in feminist allyship. However, several barriers to men’s active bystanding and engagement with the issue of VAW, as well as ethical, theoretical and practice issues, need to be considered. These include: the privileging of men’s willingness to listen to other men, thereby devaluing women’s perspectives; pluralistic ignorance where men feel other men do not share their discomfort of violence-supportive practices; and a tendency for men to default to confrontational modes of active bystanding. We highlight how these issues are even more pertinent to address given the presence of political forces that seek to stymie men’s support for feminist activism and causes related to gender politics.
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Men’s violence against women , Violence prevention , Bystander intervention , Young people
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Bolton, R., Edwards, C., Leane, M. and Ó Súilleabhain, F. (2023) ‘I would love to do something about it’: young men’s role in addressing violence against women in Ireland', Journal of Gender-Based Violence, 8(1), pp. 4-18. https://doi.org/10.1332/23986808Y2023D000000008
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© 2024, Centre for Gender and Violence Research, University of Bristol. This is a post-peer-review, pre-copy edited version of an article published in Journal of Gender-Based Violence. The definitive publisher-authenticated version [Bolton, R., Edwards, C., Leane, M. and Ó Súilleabhain, F. (2023) ‘I would love to do something about it’: young men’s role in addressing violence against women in Ireland', Journal of Gender-Based Violence, 8(1), pp. 4-18] is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1332/23986808Y2023D000000008