This chapter gives a broad overview of the field by bringing in to focus the value of contemporary, critical masculinity studies to feminist work on intimate partner violence. It begins by providing an outline of feminist engagements with intimate partner violence, from its origins to more contemporary work that interrogate questions of difference and diversity. We introduce masculinity studies and its relative lack of serious work on violence, specifically in a global Northern context, and we make a case that theorising about men, masculinity and intimate partner violence is fundamental and it must keep the intersectional entanglements of identities and social inequalities in mind in order to avoid the risk of reproducing classed and racial hierarchies. This chapter ends with an outline of the various chapters to the volume and its contributions to the study of men, masculinities and intimate partner violence.