Engaging Men in the Fight against Gender Violence: Case Studies from Africa

✍ Scribed by Jane Freedman (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Year: 2012
Tongue: English
Leaves: 198
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-vi
Masculinities, Gender, and Violence....Pages 1-16
What Do Men Think?....Pages 17-38
Militarized Masculinities and the Political Economy of Wartime Sexual Violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo....Pages 39-67
“You Must Sit on the Old Mat to Ply the New One”....Pages 69-100
Listening to Perpetrators....Pages 101-130
Masculinity and Gender-Based Violence in Rwanda....Pages 131-158
About the Notion of Hope....Pages 159-184
Conclusions....Pages 185-187
Back Matter....Pages 189-194

✦ Subjects

Gender Studies; African Culture; Sociology, general; Crime and Society

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