The Other Half of Gender : Men's Issues in Development
This book is an attempt to bring the gender and development debate full circle-from a much-needed focus on empowering women to a more comprehensive gender framework that considers gender as a system that affects both women and men. The chapters in...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC: World Bank
2012
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2006/01/6868706/other-half-gender http://hdl.handle.net/10986/7029 |
| Summary: | This book is an attempt to bring the
gender and development debate full circle-from a much-needed
focus on empowering women to a more comprehensive gender
framework that considers gender as a system that affects
both women and men. The chapters in this book explore
definitions of masculinity and male identities in a variety
of social contexts, drawing from experiences in Latin
America, the Caribbean and sub-Saharan Africa. It draws on a
slowly emerging realization that attaining the vision of
gender equality will be difficult, if not impossible,
without changing the ways in which masculinities are defined
and acted upon. Although changing male gender norms will be
a difficult and slow process, we must begin by understanding
how versions of masculinities are defined and acted upon. |
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