At a public lecture in Cape Town earlier this year, Professor \nSandra Harding, an internationally renowned feminist author, \nspoke to the question ‘Can men be subjects of feminist \nthought?’ (1 March 2010, District Six Museum, Cape Town). In \nher talk, Harding called on men to elaborate critically on their \nsubjective experiences and practices of being boys and men – \nfrom childhood to adulthood, and through fatherhood to old age. \nShe argued that while androcentric thinking has dominated \nknowledge production globally, men’s self-reflexive voices on \ntheir own experiences of being boys and men have been relatively \nsilent, particularly through a profeminist and critical gender \nlens. Harding thus drew attention to an important challenge \nconfronting contemporary psychology, a challenge that underpins \nthe rationale for this Special Edition of the Journal of Psychology \nin Africa. However, much of our knowledge within the \ndiscipline of psychology has been and remains uncritically \nbased on boys’ and men’s experiences and perspectives. More \nspecifically, as Boonzaier and Shefer (2007) argue, most psychological \nknowledge is not only predominantly based on research \nwith men, but also in most cases, middle-class, white, \nAmerican men. Studies that problematise and foreground masculinity \nitself, that challenge masculinity as normative, and that \napply a critical, gendered lens, are still relatively marginal in the \nsocial sciences and particularly in psychology. This is however \nbeginning to change.
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