The other half of gender : men's issues in development / / edited by Ian Bannon and Maria C. Correia

• Pubblicazione: Washington, DC, : World Bank, 2006
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: xxvi, 311 pages ; ; 23 cm
• Disciplina: 305.3109172/4
• Soggetto topico: Men - Developing countries; Community development - Developing countries; Economic development projects - Developing countries
• Altri autori: BannonIan CorreiaMaria
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 ; BibliographyIndex
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The other half of gender
• ISBN: 1-280-50346-7; 9786610503469; 0-8213-6506-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910814355303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: World Bank e-Library.