Missing men? Reflections on men, masculinities and gender in GAD

摘要

Amidst spiralling media interest, and set against a backdrop of a decade in which an initial trickle of self-help literature for men turned into a cascade of writing on male identities, a concern with men and masculinities has belatedly emerged ontothe Gender and Development (GAD) agenda. Posing challenges that strike at the core of what GAD claims to be about or for, this newly discovered interest in men provides an entry point for reflection on some of the basic tenets and tendencies of GAD in theory and practice. By opening up space for reflection on taken-for-granted assumptions about women and men, gender relations and indeed the concept of gender itself, recent work on men also offers the opportunity to begin to move beyond the static stereotypes that continue to pervade the field.