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Title Men and masculinities around the world : transforming men's practices / edited by Elisabetta Ruspini ... [and others]
Edition First edition
Published New York, N.Y. ; Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

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 MELB  305.3109 Rus/Mam  AVAILABLE
Description x, 282 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Series Global masculinities
Global masculinities series.
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
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Masculinity -- Cross-cultural studies.
Men.
Sex role.
Author Ruspini, Elisabetta.
LC no. 2011011898
ISBN 023010715X (hbk.)
9780230107151 (hbk.)