Ongoing research on the how firefighters develop and protect their (masculine) identity Background –One more last working class hero (  in.com/baigent.pdf) –Research of a (largely) unreconstructed masculinity (represents a patriarchy at work Walby 1986, 1990) –Developing an understanding of a source of hegemonic masculinity (Connell 1987, 1995, 2005) –Qualitative research using to produce findings that firefighters might understand (Grounded Theory Glaser and Strauss 1965Pro-feminist auto critique (Hearn 1994)
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