Week four: Masculinities

This seminar examines the growing awareness about the need to include men in
gender development planning and implementation. A prolonged focus on women has
raised questions about the place of men in development policy and the need to
incorporate them in order to make gender projects more effective. However, relatively
little of the innovative thinking and practice that has taken place in relation to HIV
and AIDS has been carried into other areas of development work. Essentialised
notions of men as the problem; women as victims continue to hold sway.


Key questions:

How is a study of masculinities relevant to gender and development?
Why should men care, support or engage with issues of gender, HIV, sexual
health and/or other issues in gender and development?
Why are (reproductive) health programmes bound to fail if men are left out?
What can be learnt from work with men on issues of HIV and AIDS, gender and
sexuality?


Essential Readings:

Cornwall, A. and White, S. (2000) Men, Masculinities and Development. Politics,
Policies and Practices. IDS Bulletin. Vol 3, No 2, pp. 1-6. X

Connell, R.W. and Messerschmidt 2005. Hegemonic Masculinity: Rethinking the
concept. Gender and Society, 19 (6): 829-859. X

Recommended Readings:

Cornwall, A., Edstrm, J. and Greig, A. (2011) Introduction: Politicizing
Masculinities, in Cornwall, A., Edstrm, J. and Greig, A. (eds.) Men and
Development Politicising Masculinities, London: Zed Books, pp. 47-57.
Barker, G and Ricardo, C. 2006. Young Men and the Construction of Masculinity in
Sub
saharan Africa. Implications for HIV/AIDS, Conflict and Violence. In The Other
Half of
Gender. Mens Issues in Development. Bannon, I and Correia M,C (ed). The World
Bank:Washington


Blanc, A.K. and Wolff, B. 2001 Gender and Decision-making over Condom Use in
Two districts in Uganda, African Journal of Reproductive Health. 5 (3): 15-28.

Hodgson, D.L. Once Intrepid Warriors: Modernity and the Production of Maasai
Masculinities, Ethnology, 38 (2): 121-150.

Gutmann, M.C. 1997 Trafficking in Men: the Anthropology of Masculinity. Annual
Review of Anthropology, 26: 385-409.

Connell, R.W. (2001) The Men and the Boys, University of California Press

Cornwall, Andrea. 1997. Men, masculinity and gender in development, in Gender
and Development 5(2): 8-13.
Or
Cornwall, Andrea. 2000. Missing Men? Reflections on Men, Masculinities and
Gender in GAD, in IDS Bulletin 31(2): 18-27.

Chant, Sylvia. 2000. From Woman-Blind to Man-Kind: Should men have more
space in gender and development?, in IDS Bulletin 31(2): 7-17.

Pearson, Ruth. 2000. Which Men, Why Now?: Reflections on Men and
Development, in IDS Bulletin 31(2): 42-48.

Greene, Margaret E. 2000. Changing Women and Avoiding Men: Gender
Stereotypes and Reproductive Health Programmes in IDS Bulletin 31(2): 49-
59.

Barker, Gary and C. Ricardo. 2006. Young men and the construction of masculinity in
Sub-Saharan Africa: Implications for HIV/AIDS, Conflict and Violence. In
Correia, M and I. Bannon (eds). The Other half of Gender: Mens Issues in
Development. Washington: World Bank.

Mehta, N.M. et al. 2004. Men as Partners: lessons learned from engaging men in
clinics and communities. In Ss Ruxton (ed) Gender equality and men:
Learning from practice. Oxford: Oxfam. [Copy available online at
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/what_we_do/resources/geneqmen.htm]

Hunter, Mark. 2004. Masculinities, multiple-sexual partners, and AIDS: the making
and unmaking of Isoka in KwaZulu-Natal. Transformation: critical
perspectives on Southern Africa 54(4): 123-153.

Silberschmidt, M. 2004. Men, Mal sexuality and HIV/AIDS: Reflections from studies
in rural and urban East Africa. Transformation: critical perspectives on
Southern Africa 54(4): 42-58.

Cornwall, A. and N. Lindisfarne. 1994. Dislocating Masculinity: Comparative
ethnographies. London: Routledge.

Ruxton, S. (ed.). 2004. Gender equality and men: learning from practice. Oxford:
Oxfam.

White, Sarah. 1994. Making men an issue: gender planning for the other half, in
Gender Planning in development Agencies: Meeting the Challenge, Mandy
Macdonalds (ed.). Oxford: Oxfam, pp.98-109.

Harrison, E. 1997. Men in womens groups: interlopers or allies?, in IDS Bulletin
28 (3).

White, Sarah. 1997. Men, masculinities and the politics of development, in Gender
and Development 5(2).

White, Sarah. 2000. Did the Earth Move? The Hazards of Bringing Men and
Masculinities into Gender and Development, in IDS Bulletin 31(2): 33-41.
Cleaver, F. 2002. Masculinities matter!: Men, gender and development. London: Zed
Books.

Barker, Gary, 2006. Mens Participation as Fathers in Latin America and the
Caribbean: Critical Literature Review and Policy Options. In Correia, M and I.
Bannon (eds). The Other half of Gender: Mens Issues in Development.
Washington: World Bank.

Silberschmidt, M. 2001. Disempowerment of men in rural and urban East Africa:
implications for male identity and sexual behaviour. World Development
29(4).

Silberschmidt, M. 2002. Masculinities, sexuality and socio-economic change in rural
and urban East Africa. In A. Signe (ed.). Gender, Sexuality and Society in
Africa. Uppsala: Nordic African Institute.

Sweetman, C. (Ed.).2001. Men's involvement in gender and development policy and
practice: beyond rhetoric. Oxford: Oxfam.

Vera-Sanso, Penny. 2000. Masculinity, Male Domestic Authority and Female
Labour Participation in South India, in The European Journal of
Development Research 12(2): 179-198. (also published in C. Jackson (ed.).
2001. Men at Work)

Chant, Sylvia. 2000. Men in Crisis? Reflections on Masculinities, Work and Family
in North-West Costa Rica, in The European Journal of Development
Research 12(2): 199-218. (also published in C. Jackson (ed.). 2001. Men at
Work)

Pearson, Ruth. 2000. All Change? Men, Women and Reproductive Work in the
Global Economy, in The European Journal of Development Research 12(2):
219-237. (also published in C. Jackson (ed.). 2001. Men at Work