Men and Masculinities Around the World: Transforming Men's Practices

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

Author: E. Ruspini
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 09/20/2011
Pages: 282
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.62d
ISBN: 9781349290673

About the Author
ELISABETTA RUSPINI Senior Associate Professor of Sociology at theUniversity of Milano-Bicocca, Italy.

JEFF HEARN Professor in Gender Studies (Critical Studies on Men) at Linköping University, Sweden; a Professor of Sociology at the University of Huddersfield, UK; and a Professor in the Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland.

BOB PEASE Chair of Social Work at Deakin University, Australia.

KEITH PRINGLE Professor in Sociology at Uppsala University in Sweden, and a Professor in Social Policy and Social Work at London Metropolitan University, UK. In addition, he is an Adjungeret Professor at Aalborg University in Denmark and Honorary Professor at Warwick University, UK.