Men and Development Politicising Masculinities

Men and Developmentbrings together some of the best-known academics, activists and practitioners in the field to present a comprehensive overview with original case studies from Brazil, India, China , South Africa, Malawi, Uganda and Nicaragua. The expert authors collectively present the central argument that mainstream international development and social policy has had little engagement with either patriarchal privilege or issues of male vulnerability, while within gender and development the "men as problem, women as victim" discourse continues to hold sway, and work on men and masculinities has failed to engage with efforts to change the structures that sustain gender and sex inequality. Addressing such issues as the relationship between domestic and communal violence and armed conflict, and including accounts of masculinities of men who do not confirm with the hetero-normative notions -- straight, as well as gay and transgender, the insightful and groundbreaking new book asks: what does it take to break away essentialist understandings of women and men without losing sight of structural inequities and inequalities? The result is a substantive and innovative contribution to current debates on men and masculinities, and an essential introduction and guide.

Andrea Cornwall is Professor of Anthropology and Development in the School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex. Jerker Edström is a Fellow of the Institute of Development Studies, IDS, University of Sussex, UK. Alan Greig has worked for over ten years as a consultant with community-based organizations and activist formations in sub-Saharan Africa, South and South-East Asia and the USA on the links between personal and political violence.

Introduction: Politicizing Masculinity - Andrea Cornwall, Jerker Edström & Alan Greig * Part 1: Embodiments and Transgressions * Performing Heterosexuality: Male Youth, Vulnerability and HIV in Malawi - Chimaraoke Izugbara & Jerry Okal *  Is s/he More of a Man? Constructing Masculinity as a Female to Male Transsexual in India - Cath Sluggett * Meyeli Chhele becomes MSM: Transformation of Idioms of Sexualness into epidemiological forms in India - akshay khanna * The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: Constructions of Masculinity and Contemporary Understandings of Sex Work - Cheryl Overs * Beyond 'Vulnerability': Men, Power and HIV - Jerker Edström * Part 2: Structures: Inequities, Violence, Power * Organized Powers: Masculinities, Managers and Violence - Raewyn Connell * What Would Make Men Interested in Gender Equality? Reflections from East Africa - Margrethe Silberschmidt * Men in/and Gender Equality: A Conversation from South Africa - Robert Morrell and Penny Morrell * Militarized, Religious and Neo-colonial: The Triple-bind Confronting Men in Contemporary Uganda - Chris Dolan * Local Lives, Global Dialogues: Shifting Discourses of Masculinity in India - Radhika Chopra * Part 3: Engagements: Changing Masculinities * Gender Regimes Changing Men or Men Changing Gender Regimes? Challenges for National and Trans-national Social Policy, Gender Equality and Organizing with Men - Jeff Hearn * Masculinities, Social Exclusion and Prospects for Change: Reflections from Promundo's Work in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Gary Barker, Marcos Nascimento, Christine Ricardo, Marianna Olinger and Marcio Segundo * Masculinities and Men's Groups in China: A Conversation between Activists - Fang Gang, He Xiaopei and Susan Jolly * Women's Empowerment: What do Men Have to Do with It? - Andrea Cornwall, Henry Armas and Mbuyiselo Botha * 'Swimming Against the Tide is Easier as a Shoal' Changing Masculinities in Nicaragua: a Community-based Approach - Patrick Welsh * Anxious States and Directions for Masculinities Work with Men - Alan Greig