Care-Free Masculinities in Ireland

Abstract

"This collection, with contributions on seventeen countries from social scientists from Africa, the Americas, Asia-Pacific, and Europe, analyzes the characteristics and potential of diverse educational, political and related initiatives towards progressive changes in gender relations to show how men are reacting to contemporary social change."--Publisher description How are men reacting to contemporary social change? How are they responding to changes in womenʹs demands and womenʹs identities? And how are national and transnational politics and policies assisting, or not, in these key challenges? Using a broad comparative perspective, contributions from scholars in seventeen countries analyze the characteristics and potential of diverse educational and political initiatives towards progressive changes in gender relations. -- Book cover. Introduction: Transforming Men and Masculinities Around the World; K. Pringle, J. Hearn, B. Pease & E. Ruspini -- PART I: MEN AND MASCULINITIES IN EUROPE -- Slow, Passive and Hesitant ... Transforming Men's Practices in Austria; E. Foster -- Interventions on and of Men in the Finnish State, Civil Society and Media; J. Hearn & H. Niemi -- Care-free Masculinities in Ireland; N. Hanlon & K. Lynch -- And Yet Something is on the Move ... Education for New Forms of Masculinity and Paternity in Italy; E. Ruspini -- (Re)constructing Masculinity a la Polonais; K. Wojnicka -- Unravelling the Maze: Gender Equality and Men's Practices in Norway; Øystein Gullv̄g Holter -- Working with Men in a Gender Equality Paradise? The Case of Sweden; M. Eriksson & K. Pringle -- What's Happening in Men's Work in the UK? Reflections on Policies and Processes; C. Wright & M. Cowburn -- PART II: MEN AND MASCULINITIES IN THE AMERICAS -- Masculinities and Social Intervention in Colombia; M.V. Vigolla -- Young Mexican Men Divided: A Possibility for Transforming Masculinity; J.C.R. Rodr̕guez -- Engaging Men in the United States: Soft Essentialism and the Obstacles to Coherent Initiatives in Education and Family Policy; T. Bridges & M. Kimmel -- PART III: MEN AND MASCULINITIES IN THE ASIA PACIFIC -- Governing Men's Violence in Australia; B. Pease -- Masculinities in Crisis? Men and Boys in Contemporary China; X. Zhang -- Transforming Men and Masculinities in Contemporary Japan; J. Roberson -- From Benevolent Patriarchy To Gender Transformation: A Case Study of Pakistan's 'We Can End Violence Against Women' Program; J. Wu -- PART IV: MEN AND MASCULINITIES IN AFRICA -- Poverty, Masculine Violence and the Transformation of Men: Ethnographic Notes from Kenyan Slums; C. Izugbara -- Navigating Past 'the White Man's Agenda' in South Africa: Organising Men for Gendered Transformation of Society; K. Ratele, T. Shefer & M. Botha. Transforming men and masculinities around the world / Keith Pringle, Jeff Hearn, Bob Pease, and Elisabetta Ruspini -- Men and masculinities in Europe -- Slow, passive and hesitant : transforming men's practices in Austria / Edgar Foster -- Interventions on and of men in the finnish state, civil society, and media / Jeff Hearn and Hertta Niemi -- Care-free masculinities in Ireland / Niall Hanlon and Kathleen Lynch -- And yet something is on the move -- : education for new forms of masculinity and paternity in Italy / Elisabetta Ruspini -- (Re)constructing masculinity a la Polonais / Katarzyna Wojnicka -- Unravelling the maze : gender equality and men's practices in Norway / Øystein Gullvåg Holter -- Working with men in a gender equality paradise : the case of Sweden / Maria Eriksson and Keith Pringle -- What's happening in men's work in the UK? : reflections on policies and processes / Carole Wright and Malcolm Cowburn -- Men and masculinities in the Americas -- Masculinities and social intervention in Colombia / Mara Viveros Vigolla -- Young Mexican men divided : a possibility for transforming masculinity / Juan Carlos Ramírez Rodríguez -- Engaging men in the United States : soft essentialism and the obstacles to coherent initiatives in education and family policy / Tristan Bridges and Michael Kimmel -- Men and masculinities in the Asia pacific -- Governing men's violence in australia / Bob Pease -- Masculinities in crisis? : men and boys in contemporary China / Xingkui Zhang -- Transforming men and masculinities in contemporary japan / James Roberson -- From benevolent patriarchy to gender transformation : a case study of Pakistan's "we can end violence against women' program / Joyce Wu -- Men and masculinities in Africa -- Poverty, masculine violence and the transformation of men : ethnographic notes from Kenyan slums / Chimaraoke Izugbara -- Navigating past "the white man's agenda" in South Africa : organising men for gendered transformation of society / Kopano Ratele, Tamara Shefer and Mbuyiselo Botha.