The War on Drugs in the United States has polarized the debate on how to deal effectively with dr... more The War on Drugs in the United States has polarized the debate on how to deal effectively with drug use and prevention and makes it difficult to form an agenda to address the harm of drug use. Harm-reduction activists and drug-user groups need to establish common ground to develop programs acceptable to all parties. The harm-reduction approach is based on the premise that adverse consequences of a harmful act, drug use in this case, can be mitigated without necessarily reducing consumption. Needle exchange programs are a good example of this approach. There are 100 such programs in the United States, and the programs are seen as an effective means of reducing HIV transmission. However, the programs remain politically sensitive and Federal funding is outlawed. The War on Drugs programs can conflict with HIV prevention programs; programs that might reduce the incidence of HIV infection but do not criminalize or stigmatize drug use are rarely socially acceptable. In the U.S., about half of all new HIV cases can be attributed to drug use. One-third of the increase in prison populations since 1980 is a consequence of the number of drug-law violators in the prison system. The impact of moral conservatism and how the drug laws are affected by class, race, and gender are discussed. Groups involved with combating drug use and preventing HIV transmission will need to form alliances to develop programs mutually beneficial to their audiences.
Given the metaphor-"developing" and "developed"-that defines relationships between countries, it ... more Given the metaphor-"developing" and "developed"-that defines relationships between countries, it is no surprise that whatever other inequalities there are between richer industrialized countries and poorer, less industrialized nations, there is also the "pedagogic inequality" between the teacher and the taught. "Our" resources are sent "over there" to develop them. In the case of AIDS, technical expertise from North America, Western Europe, and Australia continues to inform the responses to the HIV epidemic in many parts of Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Central and Eastern Europe, and-to a lesser extent-Latin America and the Caribbean. It is difficult to imagine the reverse: teams of experts from Uganda or Thailand sent to advise AIDS professionals and communities affected by the HIV epidemic in New York or Cleveland or Seattle. Nor is this one-way dialogue between the "First" and "Third" worlds merely the result of the former's greater resources. More fundamentally, it is born of valuing "our" experience and expertise over "theirs," a perspective whose roots go deep into the colonial past. There are real and important differences in experience and specific areas of technical expertise, backed by significantly greater research and academic resources, that legitimate the provision of HIV-related technical assistance by richer countries to poorer ones. But, such "benignly" unequal relationships-between donors and recipients, between teachers and the taughtinhibit a more valuable exchange of insights into the HIV epidemic as an expression of social and economic inequalities. This article looks at these insights and some of the lessons that AIDS service providers and policy makers in the United States can learn from them.
My creative practice addresses two research questions: how does ubiquitous computation affect the... more My creative practice addresses two research questions: how does ubiquitous computation affect the visual operations of the contemporary control society and what does this mean for the use of visual media in contesting such control? Through photographic and video work in digital formats, I explore the movements and arrests of informatic flows that constitute the operation of control, and the potential for resistance that may be felt in the turbulence of the interface, as a dynamic threshold where such flows meet. This thesis would not have been completed without the patient encouragement and insightful guidance of my two supervisors, Sharif Mowlabocus and Mary Agnes Krell. I am indebted to their belief in me and my work; their support strengthened both my visual creativity and critical analysis. At the University of Sussex, Sarah Maddox and, latterly, Jaime Huxtable provided me with much needed advice with the administrative aspects of my doctoral journey. The winter term I spent at Sussex was enriched by my conversations and collaboration with Takahiro Kida, whose commitment to the craft of, and critical reflection on, film-making helped shape my own practice. In New York City, Jay Barksdale, now retired but formerly responsible for the Wertheim Research Study Room in the New York Public Library, made it possible for me to study and write in the company of fellow scholars, and to access the NYPL's formidable collections. At the time I began my doctoral work, I was heavily involved with the Challenging Male Supremacy (CMS) Project in New York, and my friendships with CMS co-founders Aazam Otero, Gaurav Jashnani and RJ Maccani continue to sustain me. Other CMS members played a more direct role in my work; I am very grateful to Andrew Hoyles for collaborating with me on the video work that led to look screen, and to Manu Sachdeva for his support in the production of my web portfolio. The politics of my creative practice are deeply rooted in the political work I did while living with Sara Kershnar in Berkeley, California. Sara's friendship, and her example of working to make another world possible, keeps me going, emotionally and politically. Being friends with Sonja Mackenzie and Kym Dorman, and their two wonderful children Amaya and Elan, has further strengthened my faith in the possibility of a better world for the generations to come. We will only reach this better world through daily practices of living differently, and I thank Chris Lymbertos for her continuing to show me the way. Throughout my work, one of the few constants was the love of my family members back in the UK. Sue, Keith and Andrew, and their respective partners and children, continue to be there for me and their presence in my life, if often from afar, anchors me. Nearer to home, my good friends Lisa Bates and Naomi Hossain, veterans both of the PhD journey, have held my hand and, when appropriate, kicked my butt to get me over the line; I would not be here without them. I would not even have started this journey but for initial conversations with colleagues and friends Jerker Edström and Andrea Cornwall. My dear friend Ioanna Trilivas enabled me to embark, and once underway, her friendship and support has helped me finish; I cannot thank her enough.
An extraordinary growth in research and programming on masculinities continues to explore the way... more An extraordinary growth in research and programming on masculinities continues to explore the ways in which to challenge male authority by redefining male identity. Given the long-standing and deeply entrenched patriarchal ideology that equates male identity with men's authority over women, this tension would appear to be a significant obstacle facing the momentum for change towards gender equality and men's part in it.
Men and Development: Politicizing Masculinities features an exciting collection of contributions ... more Men and Development: Politicizing Masculinities features an exciting collection of contributions from some of today's leading thinkers and practitioners in the field of men, masculinities and development. Together, contributors challenge the neglect of the structural dimensions of patriarchal power relations in current development policy and practice, and the failure to adequately engage with the effects of inequitable sex and gender orders on both men's and women's lives. The book calls for renewed engagement in efforts to challenge and change stereotypes of men, to dismantle the structural barriers to gender equality, and to mobilize men to build new alliances with women's movements and other movements for social and gender justice
This paper discusses the role of men in redressing gender inequalities by exploring the meanings ... more This paper discusses the role of men in redressing gender inequalities by exploring the meanings and uses of masculinity. Discussions on masculinity provide a place in which mens involvement in producing and challenging inequalities and inequities in gender and other social relations can be investigated. In this paper masculinity is defined in terms of biological determinism or essentialism cultural or social constructionism and masculinity as a discourse of power. The uses of masculinity are examined in the context of power and patriarchy; production and social reproduction; poverty; governance; violence and conflict; health; and workplace and organizations. Thinking about masculinities and mens role in working towards gender equality is relatively new in the development field. Therefore continued efforts should be made to publicize and advocate for the importance of mens responsibilities and roles in work towards gender equality in the international fora local and national policy debates and development programming. It is believed that making masculinities visible and men more conscious of gender as it affects their lives and those of women is a first step towards challenging gender inequalities.
Gender inequalities are shaping how the HIV epidemic evolves and in order to engage men as 'part ... more Gender inequalities are shaping how the HIV epidemic evolves and in order to engage men as 'part of the solution' we must deal with issues of male power. Work on women's equality is centrally concerned with structures of male power within society and how social, economic and political institutions reproduce them. These structures still predominate in most societies and gendered analyses of women's vulnerability in HIV transmission and its impacts show that change is needed.
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 2024
Amid a rising tide of misogyny and gender violence across the world, terms like “patriarchal back... more Amid a rising tide of misogyny and gender violence across the world, terms like “patriarchal backlash” have increased in use to describe similar trends in different settings. Yet, backlash remains contested as a concept, variably perceived as an expression of male resistance, a patriarchal restoration, or a mode through which a broader reactionary politics play out and coalesce. Recognizing that the predominance of recent academic literature on backlash centers on Europe and the Americas, we explore a broader set of debates, questioning how we can better understand backlash in a global context. We argue that backlash can be framed as a form of crisis management, as a confluence of crises—political, economic, climate, and pandemic—that create volatility in hierarchical social relations, threatening the reproduction of elite rule and capitalist growth. “Governments dream of docile, domesticated, and privatized lives,” Françoise Vergès reminds us, and patriarchal backlash serves to reimpose order through a series of spatial fixes in the individual space of the sexed body, the privatized space of the traditional family, and the bordered, ordered space of the ethnically imagined nation. Amid a felt sense of crisis and ensuing ontological insecurity, hierarchies are fixed in place through appeals to a naturalized gender order, itself structured by racialized, neocolonial relations of power operating within and across national borders. As sites of struggle over discursive meaning and material resources, the body, family, and nation are critical spaces in which to counter backlash and its fixing of hierarchies.
Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics, 2024
The multiplicity of crises that mark the contemporary era, the polycrisis, also constitutes a cri... more The multiplicity of crises that mark the contemporary era, the polycrisis, also constitutes a crisis of hegemony. This article explores the functions of gendered racialisation in elite management of this hegemonic crisis, with reference to Gramsci’s use of the figure of the Centaur, a hybrid of humanity and animality. It discusses the ways in which this hybrid evokes racialising tropes of human bestiality to express the dynamic interplay of consent and coercion through which hegemony is maintained. Moral panics in relation to the threat of the racialised male Other, variously figured as migrant, terrorist and/or criminal, draw on a bestialised humanisation of racialised masculinities in order to elicit consent to the exercise of coercive authority. Such authority in turn invokes a plasticity of excess/deficiency of the racialised male Other to sanction exclusionary and exterminatory violence. To seize the political opportunity of the current moment to reimagine gender justice and social justice together requires a deeper engagement with the deployment of racialised masculinities in securing consent to coercive authority amid the deepening polycrisis.
Image from Nijera Kori menandboys.ids.ac.uk 2 Lessons in good practice from work with men and boy... more Image from Nijera Kori menandboys.ids.ac.uk 2 Lessons in good practice from work with men and boys for gender equality 1 The eight case studies included in the EMERGE series cover work in a range of domains with men of different ages. Some of the initiatives have targeted their efforts at younger men and adolescents, but the case studies do not feature initiatives that work in the domain of education, or with young boys. EMERGE case study series: aims and approaches The eight initiatives featured in the case studies series were carefully selected to illustrate a range of different approaches and aims.
This brief is based on a larger study (Edström et al. 2019) (that also includes Egypt, Turkey and... more This brief is based on a larger study (Edström et al. 2019) (that also includes Egypt, Turkey and Ukraine), which explores how transition in different countries has been experienced by different groups of men, and its impacts on gender relations. It aims to assist the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and other stakeholders to consider ways of engaging men as agents of positive change for gender equality-alongside women and girls-as well as to complement women-focused projects and investments to enhance both the resilience of transitions and equality of opportunity. Worker making concrete at a production plant in Kazakhstan. CC BY-NC-ND 2.
The dramatic success of Gender Studies has rested on three developments: (1) making women's lives... more 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 studies 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. This series embraces these advances in scholarship, and applies them to men's lives: gendering men's lives, exploring the rich diversity of men's lives-globally and locally, textually and practically-as well as the differences among men by class, race, sexuality, and age.
For all the behind-the-scenes work that was vital to making the workshop happen and run smoothly ... more For all the behind-the-scenes work that was vital to making the workshop happen and run smoothly we would like to thank Petra Bongartz, Jan Boyes, Jenny Edwards, Sam Finn and Katy Miller. Thanks also to Tessa Lewin for documenting the symposium so creatively. Photo credits-front cover and p21: Henry Armas; all other photos are by Tessa Lewin except pp18 and 19: Jerker Edström. This publication was designed and produced by Barbara Cheney and printed by Warwick Printing Ltd. ISBN 13: 978 1 85864 675 81 Contents 1 An introduction What inspired the symposium? Who was there? What do we mean by 'masculinities'? Symposium participants Why is it important to understand masculinities? 2 The process Day 1 Exploring gender, power and change Exploring the personal and political in participants' own lives Concerns from the field Some notes on masculinities Day 2 Learning from change Hard Talk: learning from practice Learning from the expertise in the room: discussing the papers Forming 'affinity groups' Days 3 and 4 Making change: strategies and opportunities; tools and alliances Affinity group work What do I/we do now? Final reflections, inspirations and appreciations 3 New thinking, new possibilities Beyond gender myths and binaries: the search for a new language Dispelling these binaries Heteronormativity: an alternative articulating principle? Male bodies and sexualities Pressure to conform and perform Creating spaces for honest communication Putting emotions back into the picture Sexuality and development: how would we like to see this relationship changing? Politicising Masculinities: Beyond the Personal Shaping policies, transforming institutions Working with uniformed services Linking gender justice with economic justice Working on key institutions in male socialisation Engaging with the political process Community mobilisation, activism and movement building: towards a gender-just world Strategies for action: opportunities and challenges 4 Where to now?
The War on Drugs in the United States has polarized the debate on how to deal effectively with dr... more The War on Drugs in the United States has polarized the debate on how to deal effectively with drug use and prevention and makes it difficult to form an agenda to address the harm of drug use. Harm-reduction activists and drug-user groups need to establish common ground to develop programs acceptable to all parties. The harm-reduction approach is based on the premise that adverse consequences of a harmful act, drug use in this case, can be mitigated without necessarily reducing consumption. Needle exchange programs are a good example of this approach. There are 100 such programs in the United States, and the programs are seen as an effective means of reducing HIV transmission. However, the programs remain politically sensitive and Federal funding is outlawed. The War on Drugs programs can conflict with HIV prevention programs; programs that might reduce the incidence of HIV infection but do not criminalize or stigmatize drug use are rarely socially acceptable. In the U.S., about half of all new HIV cases can be attributed to drug use. One-third of the increase in prison populations since 1980 is a consequence of the number of drug-law violators in the prison system. The impact of moral conservatism and how the drug laws are affected by class, race, and gender are discussed. Groups involved with combating drug use and preventing HIV transmission will need to form alliances to develop programs mutually beneficial to their audiences.
Given the metaphor-"developing" and "developed"-that defines relationships between countries, it ... more Given the metaphor-"developing" and "developed"-that defines relationships between countries, it is no surprise that whatever other inequalities there are between richer industrialized countries and poorer, less industrialized nations, there is also the "pedagogic inequality" between the teacher and the taught. "Our" resources are sent "over there" to develop them. In the case of AIDS, technical expertise from North America, Western Europe, and Australia continues to inform the responses to the HIV epidemic in many parts of Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Central and Eastern Europe, and-to a lesser extent-Latin America and the Caribbean. It is difficult to imagine the reverse: teams of experts from Uganda or Thailand sent to advise AIDS professionals and communities affected by the HIV epidemic in New York or Cleveland or Seattle. Nor is this one-way dialogue between the "First" and "Third" worlds merely the result of the former's greater resources. More fundamentally, it is born of valuing "our" experience and expertise over "theirs," a perspective whose roots go deep into the colonial past. There are real and important differences in experience and specific areas of technical expertise, backed by significantly greater research and academic resources, that legitimate the provision of HIV-related technical assistance by richer countries to poorer ones. But, such "benignly" unequal relationships-between donors and recipients, between teachers and the taughtinhibit a more valuable exchange of insights into the HIV epidemic as an expression of social and economic inequalities. This article looks at these insights and some of the lessons that AIDS service providers and policy makers in the United States can learn from them.
My creative practice addresses two research questions: how does ubiquitous computation affect the... more My creative practice addresses two research questions: how does ubiquitous computation affect the visual operations of the contemporary control society and what does this mean for the use of visual media in contesting such control? Through photographic and video work in digital formats, I explore the movements and arrests of informatic flows that constitute the operation of control, and the potential for resistance that may be felt in the turbulence of the interface, as a dynamic threshold where such flows meet. This thesis would not have been completed without the patient encouragement and insightful guidance of my two supervisors, Sharif Mowlabocus and Mary Agnes Krell. I am indebted to their belief in me and my work; their support strengthened both my visual creativity and critical analysis. At the University of Sussex, Sarah Maddox and, latterly, Jaime Huxtable provided me with much needed advice with the administrative aspects of my doctoral journey. The winter term I spent at Sussex was enriched by my conversations and collaboration with Takahiro Kida, whose commitment to the craft of, and critical reflection on, film-making helped shape my own practice. In New York City, Jay Barksdale, now retired but formerly responsible for the Wertheim Research Study Room in the New York Public Library, made it possible for me to study and write in the company of fellow scholars, and to access the NYPL's formidable collections. At the time I began my doctoral work, I was heavily involved with the Challenging Male Supremacy (CMS) Project in New York, and my friendships with CMS co-founders Aazam Otero, Gaurav Jashnani and RJ Maccani continue to sustain me. Other CMS members played a more direct role in my work; I am very grateful to Andrew Hoyles for collaborating with me on the video work that led to look screen, and to Manu Sachdeva for his support in the production of my web portfolio. The politics of my creative practice are deeply rooted in the political work I did while living with Sara Kershnar in Berkeley, California. Sara's friendship, and her example of working to make another world possible, keeps me going, emotionally and politically. Being friends with Sonja Mackenzie and Kym Dorman, and their two wonderful children Amaya and Elan, has further strengthened my faith in the possibility of a better world for the generations to come. We will only reach this better world through daily practices of living differently, and I thank Chris Lymbertos for her continuing to show me the way. Throughout my work, one of the few constants was the love of my family members back in the UK. Sue, Keith and Andrew, and their respective partners and children, continue to be there for me and their presence in my life, if often from afar, anchors me. Nearer to home, my good friends Lisa Bates and Naomi Hossain, veterans both of the PhD journey, have held my hand and, when appropriate, kicked my butt to get me over the line; I would not be here without them. I would not even have started this journey but for initial conversations with colleagues and friends Jerker Edström and Andrea Cornwall. My dear friend Ioanna Trilivas enabled me to embark, and once underway, her friendship and support has helped me finish; I cannot thank her enough.
An extraordinary growth in research and programming on masculinities continues to explore the way... more An extraordinary growth in research and programming on masculinities continues to explore the ways in which to challenge male authority by redefining male identity. Given the long-standing and deeply entrenched patriarchal ideology that equates male identity with men's authority over women, this tension would appear to be a significant obstacle facing the momentum for change towards gender equality and men's part in it.
Men and Development: Politicizing Masculinities features an exciting collection of contributions ... more Men and Development: Politicizing Masculinities features an exciting collection of contributions from some of today's leading thinkers and practitioners in the field of men, masculinities and development. Together, contributors challenge the neglect of the structural dimensions of patriarchal power relations in current development policy and practice, and the failure to adequately engage with the effects of inequitable sex and gender orders on both men's and women's lives. The book calls for renewed engagement in efforts to challenge and change stereotypes of men, to dismantle the structural barriers to gender equality, and to mobilize men to build new alliances with women's movements and other movements for social and gender justice
This paper discusses the role of men in redressing gender inequalities by exploring the meanings ... more This paper discusses the role of men in redressing gender inequalities by exploring the meanings and uses of masculinity. Discussions on masculinity provide a place in which mens involvement in producing and challenging inequalities and inequities in gender and other social relations can be investigated. In this paper masculinity is defined in terms of biological determinism or essentialism cultural or social constructionism and masculinity as a discourse of power. The uses of masculinity are examined in the context of power and patriarchy; production and social reproduction; poverty; governance; violence and conflict; health; and workplace and organizations. Thinking about masculinities and mens role in working towards gender equality is relatively new in the development field. Therefore continued efforts should be made to publicize and advocate for the importance of mens responsibilities and roles in work towards gender equality in the international fora local and national policy debates and development programming. It is believed that making masculinities visible and men more conscious of gender as it affects their lives and those of women is a first step towards challenging gender inequalities.
Gender inequalities are shaping how the HIV epidemic evolves and in order to engage men as 'part ... more Gender inequalities are shaping how the HIV epidemic evolves and in order to engage men as 'part of the solution' we must deal with issues of male power. Work on women's equality is centrally concerned with structures of male power within society and how social, economic and political institutions reproduce them. These structures still predominate in most societies and gendered analyses of women's vulnerability in HIV transmission and its impacts show that change is needed.
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 2024
Amid a rising tide of misogyny and gender violence across the world, terms like “patriarchal back... more Amid a rising tide of misogyny and gender violence across the world, terms like “patriarchal backlash” have increased in use to describe similar trends in different settings. Yet, backlash remains contested as a concept, variably perceived as an expression of male resistance, a patriarchal restoration, or a mode through which a broader reactionary politics play out and coalesce. Recognizing that the predominance of recent academic literature on backlash centers on Europe and the Americas, we explore a broader set of debates, questioning how we can better understand backlash in a global context. We argue that backlash can be framed as a form of crisis management, as a confluence of crises—political, economic, climate, and pandemic—that create volatility in hierarchical social relations, threatening the reproduction of elite rule and capitalist growth. “Governments dream of docile, domesticated, and privatized lives,” Françoise Vergès reminds us, and patriarchal backlash serves to reimpose order through a series of spatial fixes in the individual space of the sexed body, the privatized space of the traditional family, and the bordered, ordered space of the ethnically imagined nation. Amid a felt sense of crisis and ensuing ontological insecurity, hierarchies are fixed in place through appeals to a naturalized gender order, itself structured by racialized, neocolonial relations of power operating within and across national borders. As sites of struggle over discursive meaning and material resources, the body, family, and nation are critical spaces in which to counter backlash and its fixing of hierarchies.
Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics, 2024
The multiplicity of crises that mark the contemporary era, the polycrisis, also constitutes a cri... more The multiplicity of crises that mark the contemporary era, the polycrisis, also constitutes a crisis of hegemony. This article explores the functions of gendered racialisation in elite management of this hegemonic crisis, with reference to Gramsci’s use of the figure of the Centaur, a hybrid of humanity and animality. It discusses the ways in which this hybrid evokes racialising tropes of human bestiality to express the dynamic interplay of consent and coercion through which hegemony is maintained. Moral panics in relation to the threat of the racialised male Other, variously figured as migrant, terrorist and/or criminal, draw on a bestialised humanisation of racialised masculinities in order to elicit consent to the exercise of coercive authority. Such authority in turn invokes a plasticity of excess/deficiency of the racialised male Other to sanction exclusionary and exterminatory violence. To seize the political opportunity of the current moment to reimagine gender justice and social justice together requires a deeper engagement with the deployment of racialised masculinities in securing consent to coercive authority amid the deepening polycrisis.
Image from Nijera Kori menandboys.ids.ac.uk 2 Lessons in good practice from work with men and boy... more Image from Nijera Kori menandboys.ids.ac.uk 2 Lessons in good practice from work with men and boys for gender equality 1 The eight case studies included in the EMERGE series cover work in a range of domains with men of different ages. Some of the initiatives have targeted their efforts at younger men and adolescents, but the case studies do not feature initiatives that work in the domain of education, or with young boys. EMERGE case study series: aims and approaches The eight initiatives featured in the case studies series were carefully selected to illustrate a range of different approaches and aims.
This brief is based on a larger study (Edström et al. 2019) (that also includes Egypt, Turkey and... more This brief is based on a larger study (Edström et al. 2019) (that also includes Egypt, Turkey and Ukraine), which explores how transition in different countries has been experienced by different groups of men, and its impacts on gender relations. It aims to assist the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and other stakeholders to consider ways of engaging men as agents of positive change for gender equality-alongside women and girls-as well as to complement women-focused projects and investments to enhance both the resilience of transitions and equality of opportunity. Worker making concrete at a production plant in Kazakhstan. CC BY-NC-ND 2.
The dramatic success of Gender Studies has rested on three developments: (1) making women's lives... more 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 studies 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. This series embraces these advances in scholarship, and applies them to men's lives: gendering men's lives, exploring the rich diversity of men's lives-globally and locally, textually and practically-as well as the differences among men by class, race, sexuality, and age.
For all the behind-the-scenes work that was vital to making the workshop happen and run smoothly ... more For all the behind-the-scenes work that was vital to making the workshop happen and run smoothly we would like to thank Petra Bongartz, Jan Boyes, Jenny Edwards, Sam Finn and Katy Miller. Thanks also to Tessa Lewin for documenting the symposium so creatively. Photo credits-front cover and p21: Henry Armas; all other photos are by Tessa Lewin except pp18 and 19: Jerker Edström. This publication was designed and produced by Barbara Cheney and printed by Warwick Printing Ltd. ISBN 13: 978 1 85864 675 81 Contents 1 An introduction What inspired the symposium? Who was there? What do we mean by 'masculinities'? Symposium participants Why is it important to understand masculinities? 2 The process Day 1 Exploring gender, power and change Exploring the personal and political in participants' own lives Concerns from the field Some notes on masculinities Day 2 Learning from change Hard Talk: learning from practice Learning from the expertise in the room: discussing the papers Forming 'affinity groups' Days 3 and 4 Making change: strategies and opportunities; tools and alliances Affinity group work What do I/we do now? Final reflections, inspirations and appreciations 3 New thinking, new possibilities Beyond gender myths and binaries: the search for a new language Dispelling these binaries Heteronormativity: an alternative articulating principle? Male bodies and sexualities Pressure to conform and perform Creating spaces for honest communication Putting emotions back into the picture Sexuality and development: how would we like to see this relationship changing? Politicising Masculinities: Beyond the Personal Shaping policies, transforming institutions Working with uniformed services Linking gender justice with economic justice Working on key institutions in male socialisation Engaging with the political process Community mobilisation, activism and movement building: towards a gender-just world Strategies for action: opportunities and challenges 4 Where to now?
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