Changing men, changing masculinities

Changing Masculinities in Urban Maputo

In 2003 Mozambique’s parliament approved a new legal code that proposes a “Western” view of family and gender roles. These changes question the social organization and the symbolic views of gender in Mozambique. We show how men are reconstructing their identities when caught between tradition and male dominance and the Westernized values of the modern equalitarian family. We analyze change at t...

Gender, Men, and Masculinities

Gender involves men as well as women. Attempts to understand gender have sometimes used the idea of sex roles; and sometimes have treated men and women as simple categories. But the most fruitful approach is to see gender as a system of social relations. Masculinities are the patterns of social practice associated with the position of men in any society’s set of gender relations. Bodily differe...

Changing Men: Best practice in violence prevention work with men

Among males, violence prevention work aims to lessen the likelihood of boys and men using violence. Strategies of violence prevention undermine the beliefs, values and discourses which support violence, challenge the patriarchal power relations which promote and are maintained by violence, and promote alternative constructions of masculinity, gender and selfhood which foster non-violence and ge...

Changing perceptions, changing reality.

Changing families, changing workplaces.

American families and workplaces have both changed dramatically over the past half-century. Paid work by women has increased sharply, as has family instability. Education-related inequality in work hours and income has grown. These changes, says Suzanne Bianchi, pose differing work-life issues for parents at different points along the income distribution. Between 1975 and 2009, the labor force ...