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Material Type: | Government publication, International government publication, Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Ian Bannon; Maria Correia |
ISBN: | 0821365053 9780821365052 0821365061 9780821365069 |
OCLC Number: | 66527302 |
Description: | xxvi, 311 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Men's issues in development / Joyce P. Jacobsen -- Men's gender relations, identity, and work-family balance in Latin America / José Olavarría -- Men's participation as fathers in Latin America and the Caribbean: critical literature review and policy options / Gary Barker -- The role of men in families in the Caribbean: a historical perspective / Barry Chevannes -- Masculinity and violence in Colombia: deconstructing the conventional way of becoming a man / Fredy Hernán Gómez Alcaraz and Carlos Iván García Suárez -- Growing up poor and male in the Americas: reflections from research and practice with young men in low-income communities in Rio de Janeiro / Gary Barker -- Fearing Africa's young men: male youth, conflict, urbanization, and the case of Rwanda / Marc Sommers -- Young men and the construction of masculinity in sub-Saharan Africa: implications for HIV/AIDS, conflict, and violence / Gary Barker and Christine Ricardo -- Young men and gender in war and postwar reconstruction: some comparative findings from Liberia and Sierra Leone / Paul Richards -- Collapsing livelihoods and the crisis of masculinity in rural Kenya / Mary Amuyunzu-Nyamongo and Paul Francis -- Gender and its discontents: moving to men-streaming development / Maria C. Correia and Ian Bannon. |
Responsibility: | edited by Ian Bannon and Maria C. Correia. |
Abstract:
Brings the gender and development debate full circle - from a focus on empowering women to a gender framework that considers gender as a system that affects both women and men. This book draws on a realization that attaining the vision of gender equality will be difficult without changing the ways in which masculinities are defined and acted upon.
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