Autorentext
Lewis Wedlock is a masculinities educator specialising in person centered, culturally attuned deliveries and interventions. He has spent the last five years working with thousands of young men across the UK in secondary and higher education, engaging them in topics such as feminism, allyship, accountability, sexism, misogyny and VAWG. He has designed and delivered several interventions for schools looking to transform their masculinity school cultures and has worked with thousands of educators to support and empower young men within their school spaces. His debut book Masculinities in Schools was published by Sage in 2025.

Klappentext

Educator and social scientist Lewis Wedlock enables schools and teachers to grow their confidence in exploring masculinities with young people.

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Introduction
Part 1 - Contextualising masculinity

1. Beginning The Ascent: Establishing key terms and concepts for the journey ahead
2. Where we are now
3. Exploring the complexities of masculinities
4. What is going on for young men at the moment?
5. Embracing messiness
   Part 2 - The process of working with masculinities
6. Unpacking 'methodologies'
7. Current Interventions: Why the work isn't working as well as it could
8. Why punitive pathways don't work
9. Punitive to restorative: Reflective work in sanctioned spaces
10. Why anger management work doesn't always work
11. Structured physical outlets with structured, structural examination
12. Why one-off guest speakers are not enough
13. Demographic Bias: Moving away from blanketised assumptions
14. What are psychographics?
15. Psychographics and contextual semantics
    Part 3 - "Newniversal" Masculinity Work
16. Planetary exploration
17. The foundations of the process
18. Observe the cosmos
19. Embrace an awareness of your own understanding and biases
20. Acknowledging and exploring positionality
21. Visiting other worlds
22. The route ahead - what comes next?