Research Catalog

Title

Men and masculinities around the world : transforming men's practices / edited by Elisabetta Ruspini ... [et al.].

Publication

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

Ruspini, Elisabetta.

Description

x, 282 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Series Statement

Global masculinities

Uniform Title

Global masculinities series.

Subject

• Men
• Masculinity > Cross-cultural studies
• Sex role

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Transforming men and masculinities around the world / Keith Pringle, Jeff Hearn, Bob Pease, and Elisabetta Ruspini -- Men and masculinities in Europe -- Slow, passive and hesitant : transforming men's practices in Austria / Edgar Foster -- Interventions on and of men in the finnish state, civil society, and media / Jeff Hearn and Hertta Niemi -- Care-free masculinities in Ireland / Niall Hanlon and Kathleen Lynch -- And yet something is on the move -- : education for new forms of masculinity and paternity in Italy / Elisabetta Ruspini -- (Re)constructing masculinity a la Polonais / Katarzyna Wojnicka -- Unravelling the maze : gender equality and men's practices in Norway / Øystein Gullvåg Holter -- Working with men in a gender equality paradise : the case of Sweden / Maria Eriksson and Keith Pringle -- What's happening in men's work in the UK? : reflections on policies and processes / Carole Wright and Malcolm Cowburn -- Men and masculinities in the Americas -- Masculinities and social intervention in Colombia / Mara Viveros Vigolla -- Young Mexican men divided : a possibility for transforming masculinity / Juan Carlos Ramírez Rodríguez -- Engaging men in the United States : soft essentialism and the obstacles to coherent initiatives in education and family policy / Tristan Bridges and Michael Kimmel -- Men and masculinities in the Asia pacific -- Governing men's violence in australia / Bob Pease -- Masculinities in crisis? : men and boys in contemporary China / Xingkui Zhang -- Transforming men and masculinities in contemporary japan / James Roberson -- From benevolent patriarchy to gender transformation : a case study of Pakistan's "we can end violence against women' program / Joyce Wu -- Men and masculinities in Africa -- Poverty, masculine violence and the transformation of men : ethnographic notes from Kenyan slums / Chimaraoke Izugbara -- Navigating past "the white man's agenda" in South Africa : organising men for gendered transformation of society / Kopano Ratele, Tamara Shefer and Mbuyiselo Botha.

Call Number

JFD 12-105

ISBN

• 9780230107151
• 023010715X

LCCN

2011011898

OCLC

YBP 2011011898

Title

Men and masculinities around the world : transforming men's practices / edited by Elisabetta Ruspini ... [et al.].

Imprint

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Edition

1st ed.

Series

Global masculinities

Global masculinities series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Ruspini, Elisabetta.

Research Call Number

JFD 12-105