Bob Pease is an Honorary Professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Deakin University and an Adjunct Professor in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Tasmania.
He has an international reputation in critical social work and critical studies of men and masculinities, having published six single-authored books, 17 co-edited books and over 120 refereed journal articles and book chapters in these fields over the last 30-plus years.
Alongside his academic career, he has been actively involved in social activism and community education against men’s violence. He formed Men Against Sexual Assault (MASA) in Melbourne in 1991 to encourage men to take responsibility for addressing men’s sexual violence and he has facilitated numerous workshops on engaging men in violence prevention.
Publications
- (forthcoming): Destabilizing Manhood and Masculinity: Unbecoming Men in a Violent Gender Order. Palgrave.
- (forthcoming): co-editor with Ian Hyslop. Abolition in Social Work and Human Services: Visions, Possibilities and Challenges. Policy Press.
- 2025: co-edited with Kate Seymour, Bob Pease, Sofia Strid, Jeff Hearn. Interconnecting the Violences of Men: Continuities and Intersections in Research, Policy and Activism. Routledge.
- 2023: co-editor with Ulf Mellström. Posthumanism and the Man Question: Beyond Anthropocentric Masculinities. Routledge.
- 2022: Undoing Privilege: Unearned Advantage and Systemic Injustice in an Unequal World. (2nd Edition). Zed Books.
- 2021: co-editor with Vivienne Bozalek. Post-Anthropocentric Social Work: Critical Posthuman and New Materialist Perspectives. Routledge.
- 2019: Facing Patriarchy: From a Violent Gender Order to a Culture of Peace. Zed Books
