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Author Freedman, Jane

Title Engaging men in the fight against gender violence : case studies from Africa / edited by Jane Freedman
Edition 1st ed
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 194 pages) : illustrations
Contents Masculinities, gender and violence : a framework for analysis / Jane Freedman and Sarah Jacobson -- What do men think? : the role of cultural (mis)conceptions in perpetuating male violence against women in neo-colonial Africa / Christopher Isike -- Militarized masculinities and the political economy of wartime sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo / Sara Meger -- "You must sit on the old mat to ply the new one" : rethinking threatened masculinities and post-conflict gender violence in Liberia / Kerrie Thornhill -- Listening to perpetrators : connecting wartime violence with post-conflict interventions / Zoe Marks -- Masculinity and gender-based violence in Rwanda : the potential contribution of community-based strategies to make a change / Henny Slegh and Annemiek Richters -- About the notion of hope : Simelela : a model of a South African rape crisis center / Sabine C. Hirschauer -- Conclusions : the way forward in engaging men and boys in prevention of violence / Jane Freedman
Summary Gender-based violence is a global phenomenon which affects millions worldwide. However, despite the increasing attention which is now paid to this violence by policy makers data seem to indicate that these efforts are not having as great an impact as may have been hoped. In all countries of the world, reports of gender-related violence remain elevated, whilst many incidents of such violence probably remain unreported due to fear of stigma or reprisals for those who are victims. One of the problems in tackling gender-based violence has been that for too long men have been ignored as part of the solution. Men are often labelled as perpetrators of violence, but they are perhaps too infrequently considered also as potential victims, or as partners and actors in the fight against violence. Constructions of masculinities are not adequately studied to analyse how dominant forms of masculinities may contribute to cycles of violence, and may also oppress and traumatise men themselves. This volume aims to address critically the issues of men, masculinity and gender-based violence, asking how men can be fully engaged in the prevention of gender-based violence, and how this engagement can strengthen prevention initiatives
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Gender in conflict management -- Africa
Women -- Violence against -- Africa
Women -- Violence against -- Africa -- Prevention
Rape -- Africa
Rape as a weapon of war -- Africa
Rape -- Africa -- Prevention
Women and war -- Africa
Masculinity -- Africa
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
Gender in conflict management
Masculinity
Rape
Rape as a weapon of war
Rape -- Prevention
Women and war
Women -- Violence against
Women -- Violence against -- Prevention
Africa
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781137014740
1137014741
129926204X
9781299262041
9781349436897
1349436895
9781137014733
1137014733