Summary
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Studies of masculinity have been largely absent from educational research. This book presents a collection of current critical scholarship on the creation of masculinities in schools. Contributors examine experiences in North American, Australian and British schools at all levels from preschool to graduation, and from school settings such as computer labs to the football field. The result is a thoughtful analysis of how masculinities are related to competing definitions of masculinity and femininity. The chapters show how masculinities are constructed among teachers, students and administrators, and locates these analyses within broader social, economic and ideological contexts.
The Sounds of Silence: Notes on the Personal Politics of Men's Leadership in Gender-Based Violence Prevention Education
The Sounds of Silence: Notes on the Personal Politics of Men's Leadership in Gender-Based Violence Prevention Education
Introduction
Why is it that after 30 years of the modern women's movement, gender-based violence prevention education, where it exists at all, is usually still seen as “women's work”?1 The American pandemic of men's violence against women is one of the great tragedies of our time. Political leaders, public health advocates, educators, and the general public have had more than three decades to respond to what feminist activists and scholars famously termed a “war against women” in our society, a war that has, shockingly, claimed more victims in the years since Vietnam than ...
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