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Author Jackson, Cecile

Title Men at Work : Labour, Masculinities, Development
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (255 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Men at Work; Continuites and Discontinuities in Political Constructions of the Working Man in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa: The 'Lazy Man' in African Agriculture; Men, Women and Work in Rural Zambia; Partners in Women-Headed Households: Emerging Masculinities?; Work and Masculinity Among Peruvian Urban Men; Exiled to the Home: Masculinity and Ageing in Urban Mexico; Equitable Social Practices and Masculine Personal History: A Santiago Study
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Summary Gender analysis of development focuses on gender relations, rather than women and men as separate gender categories, but it has necessarily been women-orientated in its concerns with subordination. This work moves gender analysis towards a fuller understanding of men's diverse gendered identities, and how these are implicated in their everyday working lives in developing country contexts. The questions addressed in the papers range from conceptual and methodological issues of definitions and measurement of men's work, to case studies of working men in specific settings, but all are concerned w
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Subject Men -- Developing countries -- Identity
Masculinity -- Developing countries
Sex role -- Developing countries
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Masculinity
Men -- Identity
Sex role
Developing countries
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781135276225
1135276226