Chapter
What this book brings to the debates
Touching a nerve: the process of writing
The structure of this book
2 Beyond the Binaries: Feminism and Men
Clearing the way: a man’s journey towards feminism
What kind of feminist are you?
Feminism: a four-letter word?
Including men in feminism: the devil is in the detail
Feminism, men and sexuality
Men’s rights: feminists as ‘agents of hate and corruption’
Equality and enlightenment: responses to the online survey for this book
1 Can a man be a feminist?
‘Equality makes me happy’: finding the sugar along with the medicine
3 Shifting Cultural and Social Attitudes
Becoming a better person …
Everybody has a penis … only girls wear barrettes
Pornography: making sexism sexy
The influence of culture and religion
Men stand up for women in Cairo
Changing generations, changing attitudes
4 No zero-sum Game: Education and Health
Standing on their own feet: why girls don’t go to school
2 Learning achievement and progress, by gender, Vietnam
Parivartan: using sport to change boys’ attitudes
Wearing a white toga: parents’ aspirations
The Gender Equity Movement in Schools (GEMS) in India
3 A university education is more important for a boy than for a girl
‘Real men don’t get sick’?
4 Suicides, women and men, per 100,000 people, 2001–10
5 Percentage of young people aged fifteen to nineteen who had higher-risk sex with a non-marital, non-cohabitating partner in the last year, selected countries
Working together for gender equality
The Men’s Travelling Conference: changing traditional beliefs in Africa
‘Between Us’ in Brazil: for young men and young women
5 Giving up Power? Women, Men and Work
Working women, working men
6 Percentage of women in senior management around the world
Genderand the global economic crisis in the UK
Work is almost everything: the old architecture of manliness
Work is almost everything: young men and work
The ‘sticky floor’ – and poor man’s patriarchy
Double shift, triple burden
Fair pay for domestic work in Nicaragua
From individual action to collective change
7 When jobs are scarce, men should have more right to a job
6 The Fatherhood Revolution?
The courage to raise a child
A badge of pride: paternity leave
Sweden: encouraging involved fatherhood
8 Men’s and women’s reports of men’s participation in domestic duties, percentage
9 Links between fathers’ and sons’ participation in domestic duties (defined as playing an equal or greater role in one or more duties)
The greatest support: the positive effects of active fathering
Young, black and proud to be a father
A fairer deal: what prevents men being more involved fathers?
Children’s views of fathers in South Africa
Backlash: fathers’ rights groups
‘So scared I was shaking’: the way forward in supporting fathers
‘Daddy, I love you’: Young Dads TV
7 Proving their Manhood: Men and Violence
Breaking boundaries not bones
Examples of social and cultural norms that promote violence against women
The abusive husband who became a role model
‘Guys who fight are seen as cool’
‘If you are raised well you will not behave violently’
Unemployment, alcohol and violence
10 Men’s reportsof work-relatedstress
Male rape: a feminist issue
Male hierarchies: men killing men
‘She provoked me’: blaming women
Addressing the root causes
One Man Can: ‘See it and stop it'
8 Conclusion: Becoming Connected
Men and the future of feminism
3 Shifting cultural and social attitudes
6 The fatherhood revolution?
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