Men and masculinities around the world : transforming men's practices
Ruspini, Elisabetta
2011 • 273 Pages • 2.58 MB • English
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Men and Masculinities Around the World
Global Masculinities Edited by Michael Kimmel and Judith Kegan Gardiner Michael Kimmel is Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is the author or editor of more than 20 books, including: Men's Lives, Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men, The Gendered Society, The Politics of Manhood, and Manhood in America: A Cultural History. He edits Men and Masculinities, an interdisciplinary scholarly journal, and has edited the Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities and the Handbook of Studies on Men and Masculinities. He consults with corporations, NGOs, and public sector organizations all over the world on gender equity issues, including work-family balance, reducing workplace discrimi- nation, and promoting diversity. Judith Kegan Gardiner is Professor of English and of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her books are Craftsmanship in Context: The Development of Ben Jonson's Poetry and Rhys, Stead, Lessing, and the Politics of Empathy. She is the editor of the volumes Provoking Agents: Gender and Agency in Theory and Practice, Masculinity Studies and Feminist Theory, and a coeditor of The International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities. She is also a member of the editorial board for the interdisciplinary journal Feminist Studies. Published by Palgrave Macmillan: Masculine Style: The American West and Literary Modernism By Daniel Worden Men and Masculinities Around the World: Transforming Men's Practices Edited by Elisabetta Ruspini, Jeff Hearn, Bob Pease, and Keith Pringle Constructions of Masculinity in British Literature from the Middle Ages to the Present (forthcoming) Edited by Stefan Horlacher
Men and Masculinities Around the World Transforming Men's Practices Edited by Elisabetta Ruspini, Jeff Hearn, Bob Pease, and Keith Pringle Palgrave macmillan
MEN AND MASCULINITIES AROUND THE WORLD Copyright © Elisabetta Ruspini, Jeff Hearn, Bob Pease, and Keith Pringle, 2011. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2011 978-0-230-10715-1 All rights reserved. First published in 2011 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States—a division of St. Martin's Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-29067-3 ISBN 978-0-230-33800-5 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230338005 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Men and masculinities around the world : transforming men's practices / edited by Elisabetta Ruspini ... [et al.]. p. cm.—(Global masculinities) Includes bibliographical references. 1. Men. 2. Masculinity—Cross-cultural studies. 3. Sex role. I. Ruspini, Elisabetta. HQ1090.M42816 2011 305.3109—dc22 2011011898 A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. Design by Newgen Imaging Systems (P) Ltd., Chennai, India. First edition: October 2011 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Transferred to Digital Printing in 2012
Contents List of Tables and Figures vii Note from the Series Editors ix 1 Introduction: Transforming Men's Practices Around the World 1 Keith Pringle, Jeff Hearn, Bob Pease, and Elisabetta Ruspini Part I Men and Masculinities in Europe 2 Slow, Passive, and Hesitant: Transforming Men's Practices in Austria 17 Edgar Forster 3 Interventions on, and of, Men in the Finnish State, Civil Society, and Media 31 Jeff Hearn and Hertta Niemi 4 Care- Free Masculinities in Ireland 45 Niall Hanlon and Kathleen Lynch 5 And Yet Something Is on the Move: Education for New Forms of Masculinity and Paternity in Italy 59 Elisabetta Ruspini 6 (Re)constructing Masculinity à la Polonaise 71 Katarzyna Wojnicka 7 Unraveling the Maze: Gender Equality and Men's Practices in Norway 85 Øystein Gullvåg Holter 8 Working with Men in a Gender Equality Paradise? The Case of Sweden 97 Maria Eriksson and Keith Pringle 9 What's Happening in Men's Work in the UK? Reflections on Policies and Processes 109 Carole Wright and Malcolm Cowburn
vi CONTENTS Part II Men and Masculinities in the Americas 10 M asculinities and Social Intervention in Colombia 125 Mara Viveros Vigoya 11 Y oung Mexican Men Divided: A Possibility for Transforming Masculinity 143 Juan Carlos Ramírez Rodríguez 12 E ngaging Men in the United States: Soft Essentialism and the Obstacles to Coherent Initiatives in Education and Family Policy 159 Tristan S. Bridges and Michael. Kimmel Part III Men and Masculinities in the Asia Pacific 13 Governing Men's Violence against Women in Australia 177 Bob Pease 14 M asculinities in Crisis? An Emerging Debate on Men and Boys in Contemporary China 191 Xingkui Zhang 15 T ransforming Men and Masculinities in Contemporary Japan 205 James E. Roberson 16 F rom Benevolent Patriarchy to Gender Transformation: A Case Study of Pakistan's "We Can End Violence against Women" Program 219 Joyce Wu Part IV Men and Masculinities in Africa 17 Poverty, Masculine Violence, and the Transformation of Men: Ethnographic Notes from Kenyan Slums 235 Chimaraoke Izugbara 18 N avigating Past "the White Man's Agenda" in South Africa: Organizing Men for Gendered Transformation of Society 247 Kopano Ratele, Tamara Shefer, and Mbuyiselo Botha Notes on Contributors 261 Index 269
Tables and Figures Tables 10.1 D istribution of Projects on Violence by Year, Location, and Management 127 10.2 D istribution of Projects on HIV- AIDS and STI Prevention by Years, Location, and Management 132 10.3 Distribution of Projects on Fatherhood, Culture, and Work by Years, Location, and Management 135 10.4 Distribution of Projects on Various Topics by Years, Location, and Management 137 11.1 Distribution of Level of Agreement on Beliefs (Percentages) among Men Aged 12–29 in the Metropolitan Area of Guadalajara (MAG) and Nationwide (NAL), 2005 148 Figures 7.1 Household Gender Equality on Three Levels (2007) 89 7.2 A Gender Equality Profile (Norway, 2007) 90 15.1 Suicides in Japan by Sex and Age (2009) 209 15.2 Suicides in Japan by Sex and Cause (2009) 210 15.3 Kyoto "Nonviolence Group Work" Schedule of Classes (2010) 212
Note from the Series Editors In Sweden, a "real man" is one who does childcare for his own children, and liberals and conservatives argue not about whether there should be govern- ment-mandated paternity leave but about the allocation of time between new mothers and fathers. In China, years of enforcing a one-child rule have led to a population with a vast demographic imbalance in the number of males over females, with consequences yet to be determined. In Iran, vasec- tomy becomes increasingly popular as men seek to take more responsibility for family planning in an atmosphere of restrictive gender roles. In the Philippines, government-supported exports of women as nurses, maids, and nannies to first-world countries alters the lives of boys and girls growing up both at home and in the developed countries, and Mexican-American men adapt to their wives' working by doing increased housework and childcare, while their ideology of men's roles changes more slowly. And throughout the world, warfare continues to be a predominantly male occupation, dev- astating vast populations, depriving some boys of a childhood, and promot- ing other men to positions of authority. Global Masculinities is a series devoted to exploring the most recent, most innovative, and widest ranging scholarship about men and mascu- linities from a broad variety of perspectives and methodological approaches. The dramatic success of Gender Studies has rested on three developments: (1) making women's lives visible, which has also come to mean making all genders more visible; (2) insisting on intersectionality and so complicating the category of gender; (3) analyzing the tensions among global and local iterations of gender. Through textual analyses and humanities-based stud- ies of cultural representations, as well as cultural studies of attitudes and behaviors, we have come to see the centrality of gender in the structure of modern life and life in the past, varying across cultures and within them. Through interviews, surveys, and demographic analysis, among other forms of social scientif ic inquiry, we are now able to quantify some of the effects of these changing gender structures. Clearly written for both the expert and more general audience, this series embraces the advances in scholarship and applies them to men's lives: gendering men's lives, explor-
x N OTE FROM THE SERIES EDITORS ing the rich diversity of men's lives—globally and locally, textually and practically—as well as the differences among men by social class, "race"/ ethnicity and nationality, sexuality, ability, status, sexual preference and practices, and age. MICHAEL KIMMEL AND JUDITH KEGAN GARDINER
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