Resources       

Seminars, papers, academic discussions on masculinity, gender studies

http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/dppc/gender/mandmweb/contents.html

This website aims to disseminate papers presented as part of the ESRC funded Seminar Series on 'Men, Masculinities and Gender Relations in Development'. Co-ordinated by Dr Frances Cleaver of The Development and Project Planning Centre, a series of five seminars was held in partnership with The School of Development Studies (University of East Anglia); The Institute of Development Studies (University of Sussex) and Oxfam, over a period of 21 months between September 1998 and June 2000. The seminars arose out of a need to explore issues relating to men and masculinities within the context of gender and development.

http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=1810

This site called the “Voice of the Shuttle” is a useful connecting link to studies on gender and sexuality including men and men’s studies. One can access innumerable articles/papers/activist literature/training modules etc. for men and women and other kind of interesting work done around issues of men and masculinity. VoS has been put together by Alan Liu and a development team from University of California, Santa Barbara

http://www.skk.uio.no/English/masculinities.html

This is the official site of the “Men and Masculinities” project undertaken by the Centre for Women’s Studies and Gender Research under University of Oslo, Norway. The project is interdisciplinary within masculinity studies and gender research, and focuses on different kinds of men's identity and behaviour. It is financed by the Norwegian Research Council's Programme for Gender Research. The project arises from feminist theory and the established fields of women's studies and gender research. The aim is to increase knowledge and create new theory on men and masculinities from different angles. The project’s starting point is the situation where the established discursive or masculine order is being exposed to increasing pressure from both men and women. This process creates ambiguity, delimitation and identity tensions in the establishing of gender identity.

http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/egm/men-boys2003/Connell-bp.pdf

Connell, R.W. (2003) The role of men and boys in achieving gender equality. Consultant’s paper for ‘The Role of Men and Boys in Achieving Gender Equality’, Expert Group Meeting, organised by DAW in collaboration with ILO and UNAIDS, 21–24 October 2003, Brasilia, Brazil.

http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/egm/men-boys2003/
A comprehensive overview of why gender equality requires the participation of men and boys, patterns of male support for gender equality, obstacles and challenges to men’s involvement, reasons for change, major contemporary issues (globalisation, work/life balance, HIV/AIDS, sexuality, and reproductive health, and gender-based violence), and the strategies and policies that should guide the way forward.

Expert Group (2003) The Role of Men and Boys in Achieving Gender Equality: Report of the Export Group Meeting, ‘The Role of Men and Boys in Achieving Gender Equality’, organised by DAW in collaboration with ILO and UNAIDS, 21-24 October 2003, Brasilia, Brazil

http://www.un-instraw.org/en/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=909&Itemid=182

Virtual Seminar Series on Men’s Roles and Responsibilities in Ending Gender-based Violence, United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW), 2002.

http://www.un-instraw.org/en/index.php?option=content&task=blogcategory&id=118&Itemid=184

Virtual Seminar Series Papers include;
Political Connections: Men, Gender and Violence - Alan Greig
A Coordinated Collaborative Approach to Address and Combat Teen Dating Abuse - Rus Ervin Funk and others.

http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/education/jlemke/webs/gender/index2.htm
The City University of New York, Brooklyn has put together a discursive website on the discourses of masculinity which covers a range of issues with regard to men such as identity, sexuality, class, age, ethnicity besides talking of the theoretical tenet of the word masculinity and the discourse it has given shape to.

http://www.mensstudies.com/newlook/online/page3/page3.php?cover=MH.jpg&cat=toc&vart=j

The Men’s Study Press publishes and lists all recent publications around and on issues of masculinity. The site has interesting contemporary work on masculinity and the books are listed with their abstracts which makes for a good quick browse if one is interested to keep oneself abreast in the latest kind of questions and research carried out in the field of masculinity.

http://www.stejonda.freeuk.com/books/manual_resources.html

This site lists out all kinds of publications on masculinity with an internal link to the publications which makes it easy to access the contents of the work rather than browse trough a mere listing. The listings follow topics like male sexuality, identity, politics, men’s health and so on.

http://www.fathom.com/course/21701720/index.html

This is a link to a London School of Economics seminar series focusing on masculinity and its crisis in the present times. It forces one to question whether it is time for us to rethink masculinity and its definite constructs that we take for granted.

Journals, specific issues of journals, journal articles focusing on masculinity

http://www.jmmsweb.org/

The Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality (JMMS) is an online, scholarly, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal. JMMS is published twice a year, beginning in January 2007 with provision for other special editions. JMMS seeks to be as inclusive as possible in its area of enquiry. Papers address the full spectrum of masculinities and sexualities, particularly those which are seldom heard.

http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/details/j0244.html

Men & Masculinities is a new journal published by Sage Publications UK, committed to publishing interdisciplinary research in masculinities studies. Men and Masculinities will be published quarterly from July.

http://www.mrcforchange.org/voicemale.html

Voice Male – publication of the Men’s Resource Centre for Change
http://www.isiswomen.org/pub/wia/wia101/pinoys.html
Isis International Women’s Resource Centre. (2001). Women in Action, Special issue: Men’s Involvement in Women’s Empowerment: Can men be partners for equality?. No. 1. Quezon City, Phillipines

http://www.ismh.org/jmhg/
Journal of Men’s Health and Gender

http://mensstudies.com/newlook/online/page2/page2.php?vart=j

International Journal of Men's Health
http://social.chass.ncsu.edu/jouvert/v2i1/con21.htm
Vol. 2 of the Journal of Post Colonial Studies is a special edition on post colonial masculinities edited by Lahoucine Ouzgane and Daniel Coleman

Masculinity bibliography links

http://www.rtvf.unt.edu/people/craig/pdfs/mascbibl.PDF#search=%22MEN%20MASCULINITIES%22

This is a vast and fairly comprehensive bibliographic compilation on “men and mass media” by
Steve Craig
Department of Radio,
Television and Film
P.O. Box 310589
University of North Texas
Denton, TX 76203-0589
rscraig@unt.edu

http://mensbiblio.xyonline.net/

This website called the “Men’s Bibliography” is a comprehensive online bibliography of writing on men, masculinities, gender, and sexualities. The Men’s Bibliography lists about 16,700 books and articles, sorted into over thirty major subject areas. The site is well laid out in terms of different sections and sub headings of men’s studies like fatherhood, growing up male, men in women’s studies, intimacy and personal growth, men’s relations, homophobia, masculinity, violence and so on. One can quickly view all contemporary work, scholarly or otherwise, by clicking on any of these sub links. It is free and very easy to browse through. The Men's Bibliography - Lists some of the best (and worst) writing about men, masculinities, gender, sex and sexualities, and much more, in 34 categories. Over 15 000 works listed.

http://www.wid.msu.edu/resources/biblios/Masculinity.htm
Gender: Not Just Women. Masculinity in a Global Perspective, an Annotated Bibliography

http://www.rho.org/html/menrh_bibliography.htm
Men and reproductive health bibliography

http://mensbiblio.xyonline.net/violence2.html#Whenmen
Academic references on men's subjection to violence

http://www.library.uiuc.edu/afx/Masculinity.htm
Compilation of books on Black African Masculinity

http://menweb.org/netresor.htm
This is a link to all kinds of questions of masculinity and men’s studies available on the web.

http://www.h-net.org/~women/bibs/mas.html
Masculinity and imperialism bibliography

Associations, organizations working on masculinity

http://www.promundo.org.br/materia/view/95

Instituto Promundo's work on violence prevention. Five articles documenting and exploring violence prevention work with young men in Brazil by the Instituto Promundo. Projects include the training of young men from low income areas of Rio de Janeiro as change agents in gender-based violence prevention and the promotion of sexual and reproductive health.

http://www.apa.org/divisions/div51/history.html

This is the website of “The Society for the Psychological Study of Men and Masculinity (SPSMM). SPSMM is a division of the American Psychological Association and its agenda is to promote the critical study of how gender shapes and constricts men’s lives, and is committed to an enhancement of men’s capacity to experience their full human potential. SPSMM endeavors to erode constraining definitions of masculinity which historically have inhibited men’s development, their capacity to form meaningful relationships, and have contributed to the oppression of other people.

http://www.isiswomen.org/pub/wia/wia101/pinoys.html

Isis International Women’s Resource Centre. (2001). Women in Action, Special issue: Men’s Involvement in Women’s Empowerment: Can men be partners for equality?. No. 1. Quezon City, Phillipines

http://theinstitute-si.undp.org/csw2005/

The Institute@ CSW Beijing+10: Presentations on training men in work towards gender equality or against violence

http://www.oxfam.org.uk/what_we_do/issues/gender/gem/index.htm
Oxfam GB’s Gender Equality and “Men Project” website

http://www.nomas.org/
National Organization for Men Against Sexism (NOMAS) – USA

http://www.mensresourcesinternational.org
Men's Resources International: Educating, Consulting & Organizing for Positive Masculinity (USA)

http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/dppc/gender/mandmweb/contents.html
Men, Masculinities and Gender Relations in Development

http://www.dadsanddaughters.org

Dads and Daughters - US national advocacy nonprofit for fathers and daughters that provides men tools to be better fathers and advocates for daughters

http://www.rolstad.no/iasom/
IASOM - The International Association for Studies of Men

http://www.ismh.org/ismh/index.htm
International Society for Men's Health

http://www.peacewomen.org/resources/SALW/salwindex.html

Gender perspectives on small arms and light weapons (guns). Interesting point of view on how violence is endemic to all without a gender bind, however women are probably at the receiving end of all forms of violence than men. Thus this speak that men are always the perpetrators? “Peacewomen organization” raises these questions and many more through their material and collection in the site.

http://www.eurowrc.org/03.network/03.network.htm

This is a vital link created by UNICEF which lists a range of organizations working in the field of masculinity. One can subsequently access the links of these organizations through the list. The organizations listed work in varied capacities and their areas of interests range working on broad themes of masculinity to specific men’s health concerns and so on.