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The other half of gender : men's issues in development / edited by Ian Bannon and Maria C. Correia.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Washington, DC : World Bank, c2006.Description: xxvi, 311 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0821365053
  • 9780821365052
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.3109172/4 22
LOC classification:
  • HQ1090.7.D44 O84 2006
Contents:
Men's issues in development / Joyce P. Jacobsen -- Men's gender relations, identity, and work-family balance in Latin America / Jose Olavarria -- Men's participation as fathers in Latin America and the Caribbean: critical literature review and policy options / Gary Barker -- The role of men in families in the Caribbean: a historical perspective / Barry Chevannes -- Masculinity and violence in Colombia: deconstructing the conventional way of becoming a man / Fredy Hernan Gomez Alcaraz and Carlos Ivan Garcia Suarez -- Growing up poor and male in the Americas: reflections from research and practice with young men in low-income communities in Rio de Janeiro / Gary Barker -- Fearing Africa's young men: male youth, conflict, urbanization, and the case of Rwanda / Marc Sommers -- Young men and the construction of masculinity in sub-Saharan Africa: implications for HIV/AIDS, conflict, and violence / Gary Barker and Christine Ricardo -- Young men and gender in war and postwar reconstruction: some comparative findings from Liberia and Sierra Leone / Paul Richards -- Collapsing livelihoods and the crisis of masculinity in rural Kenya / Mary Amuyunzu-Nyamongo and Paul Francis -- Gender and its discontents: moving to men-streaming development / Maria C. Correia and Ian Bannon.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-302) and index.

Men's issues in development / Joyce P. Jacobsen -- Men's gender relations, identity, and work-family balance in Latin America / Jose Olavarria -- Men's participation as fathers in Latin America and the Caribbean: critical literature review and policy options / Gary Barker -- The role of men in families in the Caribbean: a historical perspective / Barry Chevannes -- Masculinity and violence in Colombia: deconstructing the conventional way of becoming a man / Fredy Hernan Gomez Alcaraz and Carlos Ivan Garcia Suarez -- Growing up poor and male in the Americas: reflections from research and practice with young men in low-income communities in Rio de Janeiro / Gary Barker -- Fearing Africa's young men: male youth, conflict, urbanization, and the case of Rwanda / Marc Sommers -- Young men and the construction of masculinity in sub-Saharan Africa: implications for HIV/AIDS, conflict, and violence / Gary Barker and Christine Ricardo -- Young men and gender in war and postwar reconstruction: some comparative findings from Liberia and Sierra Leone / Paul Richards -- Collapsing livelihoods and the crisis of masculinity in rural Kenya / Mary Amuyunzu-Nyamongo and Paul Francis -- Gender and its discontents: moving to men-streaming development / Maria C. Correia and Ian Bannon.

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