Men and Development: Politicizing Masculinities

‘Men and Development: Politicizing Masculinities’  includes a chapter entitled ‘The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: Constructions of Masculinity and Contemporary Understandings of Sex Work’ that looks at men as buyers and sellers of sex and desconstructs the myth of the ‘pimp’.

Other contributions challenge the neglect of the structural dimensions of patriarchal power relations in current development policy and practice, and the failure to adequately engage with the effects of inequitable sex and gender orders on both men’s and women’s lives.

The book calls for renewed engagement in efforts to challenge and change stereotypes of men, to dismantle the structural barriers to gender equality, and to mobilise men to build new alliances with women’s movements and other movements for social and gender justice.

Theme: 

Gender and Sexuality

Theme: 

Human Rights and Law

Author: 

Andrea Cornwall, Jerker Edström and Alan Greig