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Critical studies of men and masculinities implicitly acknowledge, and sometimes explicitly address (eg McMahon, 1999, Gerstel and Gallagher, 2001, Coltrane and Galt, 2000), how the unequal gender division of love and caring work is a significant source of gender inequality (Lynch, 1989; Lynch and Lyons, 2008; Lynch et al., 2009; Lynch and McLaughlin, 1995). However, masculinity studies have neglected the affective in its analysis of gender domination. Instead the focus is on the construction of dominant and hegemonic masculinities in the public sphere (Connell, 1987; Hearn, 1992; Bourdieu, 2001). Those studies that do focus on men, masculinity and caring tend to research specific groups of male caregivers either within paid or informal unpaid sectors (Applegate and Kaye, 1993, Kramer and Thompson, 2005, Russell, 2007a, 2007b) or in respect of men’s investments in paid work (Holter, 2007). Moreover …