The Other Half of Gender: Men's Issues in DevelopmentThis 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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Little effort has been devoted to understanding men's possible motivations,let alone their own gendered conditions. As with other development agencies, the World Bank took an early interest in the situation of women.
Little effort has been devoted to understanding men's possible motivations,let alone their own gendered conditions. As with other development agencies, the World Bank took an early interest in the situation of women.
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With a more complete understanding of development as a gendered process that impacts both men and women,we hope ... We believe that the time has come to better understand men from a gender perspective, for the benefit of men,women (from ...
With a more complete understanding of development as a gendered process that impacts both men and women,we hope ... We believe that the time has come to better understand men from a gender perspective, for the benefit of men,women (from ...
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Since the 1990s,a new impetus has emerged to understand the male side of gender and the concept of masculinity. Originally raised in intellectual circles and by the media in countries such as the United Kingdom and the United States,the ...
Since the 1990s,a new impetus has emerged to understand the male side of gender and the concept of masculinity. Originally raised in intellectual circles and by the media in countries such as the United Kingdom and the United States,the ...
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Addressing gender issues,including those that disadvantage women,thus requires understanding the perceptions and positions of both women and men.With respect to men, this means understanding masculinities,i.e., what it takes to be a man ...
Addressing gender issues,including those that disadvantage women,thus requires understanding the perceptions and positions of both women and men.With respect to men, this means understanding masculinities,i.e., what it takes to be a man ...
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The plurality of male identities, even in low-income settings, holds the key to understanding and promoting change. In chapter 7,“Fearing Sub-Saharan Africa's Young Men,”Marc Sommers sets the case of Rwanda within the larger context of ...
The plurality of male identities, even in low-income settings, holds the key to understanding and promoting change. In chapter 7,“Fearing Sub-Saharan Africa's Young Men,”Marc Sommers sets the case of Rwanda within the larger context of ...
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Page 28 - One DALY can be thought of as one lost year of 'healthy' life and the burden of disease as a measurement of the gap between current health status and an ideal situation where everyone lives into old age free of disease and disability".
Page xxvi - UNDP United Nations Development Programme UNFPA United Nations Population Fund UNICEF United Nations Children's Fund...
Page 27 - Table 1) but includes an adjustment for time spent in poor health. It is most easily understood as the equivalent number of years in full health that a newborn can expect to live based on current rates of ill-health and mortality.
Page 139 - Africa is likely to perpetuate the cycle of political instability, ethnic wars, revolutions and anti-regime activities that already affects many of these countries. Unemployed youth provide exceptional fodder for radical movements and terrorist organizations, particularly in the Middle East.
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Page 139 - ... of international donors and of health and social service providers, the international security community, too, has begun to take notice. In April 2002, in a written response to congressional questioning, the US Central Intelligence Agency noted that "several troublesome global trends — especially the growing demographic youth bulge in developing nations whose economic systems and political ideologies are under enormous stress — will fuel the rise of more disaffected groups willing to use...
Page 76 - Such expressions are more common among the couples who have been together only a few years, and they tend to disappear as the household persists. The grandmother family (Type C) is so called because the grandmother or some female relative, perhaps a sister, usurps the function of the father and, at times, the function of the mother.
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Page 219 - ... a social action process that promotes participation of people, organizations, and communities in gaining control over their lives in the community and larger society.
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| Title | The Other Half of Gender: Men's Issues in Development |
| Editors | Ian Bannon, Maria Correia |
| Publisher | World Bank Publications, 2006 |
| ISBN | 0821365061, 9780821365069 |
| Length | 311 pages |
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