ISBN:
9781350220058
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (246 pages)
,
illustrations
Edition:
Also published in print
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Van der Gaag, Nikki, 1957- Feminism & men
DDC:
305.3
Keywords:
Men Attitudes
;
Men Identity
;
Men Social conditions
;
Man-woman relationships
;
Feminism
;
Sex role
;
Women
;
Feminism & feminist theory
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Front cover; About the author; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; Time to change: men and feminism; Feminism and men for gender equality: together or apart?; Why write this book?; What this book brings to the debates; Touching a nerve: the process of writing; The structure of this book; 2 Beyond the Binaries: Feminism and Men; Clearing the way: a man's journey towards feminism; What kind of feminist are you?; Feminism: a four-letter word?; Why do I need feminism?; Including men in feminism: the devil is in the detail; Feminism, men and sexuality.
Abstract:
Men's rights: feminists as 'agents of hate and corruption'Can men be feminists?; Equality and enlightenment: responses to the online survey for this book; 1 Can a man be a feminist?; 'Equality makes me happy': finding the sugar along with the medicine; 3 Shifting Cultural and Social Attitudes; Becoming a better person ... ; Everybody has a penis ... only girls wear barrettes; Puppy dog tails; Pink stinks; Red beans and hard hats; Big boys should cry; Phillip's story; Body image; Pornography: making sexism sexy; Young men who hate porn; The influence of culture and religion.
Abstract:
Men stand up for women in CairoChanging generations, changing attitudes; 4 No zero-sum Game: Education and Health; A free human being; Standing on their own feet: why girls don't go to school; Boys just want to play?; 2 Learning achievement and progress, by gender, Vietnam; Parivartan: using sport to change boys' attitudes; Wearing a white toga: parents' aspirations; The Gender Equity Movement in Schools (GEMS) in India; 3 A university education is more important for a boy than for a girl; 'Real men don't get sick'?; 4 Suicides, women and men, per 100,000 people, 2001-10.
Abstract:
5 Percentage of young people aged fifteen to nineteen who had higher-risk sex with a non-marital, non-cohabitating partner in the last year, selected countriesWorking together for gender equality; The Men's Travelling Conference: changing traditional beliefs in Africa; 'Between Us' in Brazil: for young men and young women; 5 Giving up Power? Women, Men and Work; Jobs for the girls?; Working women, working men; 6 Percentage of women in senior management around the world; Genderand the global economic crisis in the UK; Work is almost everything: the old architecture of manliness.
Abstract:
Work is almost everything: young men and workThe 'sticky floor' -- and poor man's patriarchy; Double shift, triple burden; Fair pay for domestic work in Nicaragua; Leaning in?; From individual action to collective change; 7 When jobs are scarce, men should have more right to a job; 6 The Fatherhood Revolution?; Fatherhood and caring; The courage to raise a child; A badge of pride: paternity leave; Sweden: encouraging involved fatherhood; What women want ... ; 8 Men's and women's reports of men's participation in domestic duties, percentage; The dreaded exercise; ... and what men need.
Abstract:
What fathers say.
Abstract:
A fresh look at the role of men in global feminism
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-235) and index
,
Also published in print.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
,
English
DOI:
10.5040/9781350220058
URL:
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