- Paperback: 425 pages
- Publisher: Zed Books Ltd; illustrated edition edition (1 Sep 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1842775138
- ISBN-13: 978-1842775134
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 15.4 x 2.6 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,302,886 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Men of the Global South highlights a population group which hardly figures in the literature of gender and development - or indeed in the literature of development in general. It describes men in all their complexity and inconsistency - violent and non-violent, powerful and not powerful, straight and not straight, maintainers of tradition and destroyers of it, as they really are and as they want and fear to be. In doing so it fills a big gap in the literature, and raises a challenge to the gender and development mainstream to explain why it overlooks the gendered lives of men as well as women. Judy El-Bushra This impressive collection is a much needed contribution to the visibility and understanding of diversity in the lives of men from the South. Dr. Dubravka Zarkov, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague Men of the Global South paints a much-needed picture of men and masculinity in the developing world. Both potentially controversial and uniquely insightful, it provides a rich new set of case-material and conceptual tools for researchers and teachers. This pathbreaking set of essays will significantly deepen our understanding of gender and development. R. Charli Carpenter, Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh A landmark work of global gender research, bringing fresh experiences, perspectives and analyses. Oystein Gullvag Holter, Research Director, Nordic Institute of Women's and Gender Studies, University of Oslo The book skilfully brings together literary and scholarly work, and charts out new territory for the study of men and masculinities in the Global South. The book challenges prevailing prejudices and stereotypes while indicating differences and similarities and introducing new conceptions of masculinity. Cathrine Brun, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) This wide-ranging and carefully-selected collection of short articles does exactly what Adam Jones set out to do: it complicates masculinity. The hegemonic gender, and the 'taken for granted position' of masculinity, needs to be examined much more carefully - we need to understand its complexity. This is because the social consequences of how men understand their roles in the context of rapid social and economic change are tremendous. Particularly in the Global South, in the face of the massive social challenges posed by globalization, poverty, conflict and climate change, this book argues that it is imperative that we understand men better in order to support resolutions to these problems that produce gender equality and social harmony. Anne-Marie Goetz, Chief Advisor, Governance, Peace and Security at UNIFEM
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This pioneering reader is designed to fill a glaring gap in the proliferating literature on gender and development, gender and international political economy, and gender and conflict. While there is now a broad and sophisticated feminist literature on the lives and experiences of Third World women and their role in development, there has been a tendency either to ignore men as gendered subjects, or to consign them to negative and stereotypical gender roles, often as victimisers and exploiters of Third World women. While it is vital not to overlook men's roles in crime, exploitation, and violence, it is obvious that a more nuanced, inclusive and empathetic portrait of Third World men remains to be painted. This perspective makes this reader a genuinely original intervention into the study of both gender and development.
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