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		Do men matter? New horizons in gender and development

		Pillow talk: changing men’s behaviour

		Targeting men for a change

		Breadwinners and homemakers? Children explore gender

		Why men? Why now?

		Men against marital violence: a Nicaraguan campaign

		Boys behaving badly: challenging sexism in Namibia

		Do weak states undermine masculinities?

		Sites for Sore Eyes: online sources on men and masculinities

December 2000 Insights Issue #35

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Do men matter? New horizons in gender and development

Why do men not feature more in gender and development policy? The shift in emphasis from Women in Development (WID) to Gender and Development (GAD), from enumerating and redressing women’s disadvantages to analysing the social relationships between men and women, has not led to a recognition within policy of the need to understand the position of women and men. Is there a need for an explicit focus on men in GAD? Full editorial...

Other articles in this issue:

Pillow talk: changing men’s behaviour More...

Targeting men for a change
How can women fight against AIDS without the cooperation of men? More...

Breadwinners and homemakers? Children explore gender
Mum may no longer stay at home while Dad goes off to work, but cultural assumptions still prevail... More...

Why men? Why now?
Women are still the majority in the poorest groups, according to Oxfam’s work on gender and poverty in the UK and internationally. But would working with men have a positive effect on the status of women? More...

Men against marital violence: a Nicaraguan campaign
A third of women in Nicaragua has been assaulted by her male partner. What is being done to change men’s violent attitudes and behaviour within the family? More...

Boys behaving badly. Challenging sexism in Namibia
How can Namibian society create new patterns of behaviour that give value to individual rights and responsibilities? How can young girls and boys achieve self-esteem and treat each other with respect? More...

Do weak states undermine masculinities?
The study of socially-constructed masculinities and their relationship to violence reflects a healthy concern not to reduce the equation between men and violence to simple biological determinism... More...

Sites for Sore Eyes: Online Sources on Men and Masculinities
Men and masculinities is a new area of interest but there is no shortage of websites dedicated to putting men back onto the gender agenda... More...

Coming in Issue #36:
Richer or poorer? Achievements and challenges for ethical trade

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