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UNINA9910783585203321 |
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Titolo |
The other half of gender : : men's issues in development / / edited by Ian Bannon and Maria C. Correia |
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Washington, DC : , : World Bank, , [2006] |
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copyright 2006 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-50346-7 |
9786610503469 |
0-8213-6506-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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xxvi, 311 pages ; ; 23 cm |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Men - Developing countries |
Community development - Developing countries |
Economic development projects - Developing countries |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Introduction; Abbreviations; 1 Men's Issues in Development; Tables; 2 Men's Gender Relations, Identity, and Work-Family Balance in Latin America; 3 Men's Participation as Fathers in Latin America and the Caribbean: Critical Literature Review and Policy Options; 4 The Role of Men in Families in the Caribbean: A Historical Perspective; 5 Masculinity and Violence in Colombia: Deconstructing the Conventional Way of Becoming a Man |
6 Growing up Poor and Male in the Americas: Reflections from Research and Practice with Young Men in Low-Income Communities i7 Fearing Africa's Young Men: Male Youth, Conflict, Urbanization, and the Case of Rwanda; 8 Young Men and the Construction of Masculinity in Sub-Saharan Africa: Implications for HIV/AIDS, Conflict, and Violence; 9 Young Men and Gender in War and Postwar Reconstruction: Some Comparative Findings from Liberia and Sierra Leone; 10 Collapsing Livelihoods and the Crisis of Masculinity in Rural Kenya; Box; 11 Gender and Its Discontents: Moving to Men-Streaming Development |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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