Gender, Masculinities, and Transition in Conflicted Societies

Gender, Men, and Masculinities

Gender involves men as well as women. Attempts to understand gender have sometimes used the idea of sex roles; and sometimes have treated men and women as simple categories. But the most fruitful approach is to see gender as a system of social relations. Masculinities are the patterns of social practice associated with the position of men in any society’s set of gender relations. Bodily differe...

Resources, Masculinities, and Gender Differences Among Pro-life Activists

Abortion politics are often about ‘‘pro-choice’’ and ‘‘pro-life’’ countermovements trying to gain power by winning the support of political bystanders. While more is known about the reasons people become pro-choice activists, far less research has examined the motives for pro-life men and women. To address the factors that mobilize abortion activism, this study examined the role of education, r...

Men in nursing: re-evaluating masculinities, re-evaluating gender.

This paper critically interrogates and re-evaluates the notion that it is somehow difficult being a man in nursing and suggests some ways forward which will allow us to gain a more politically astute purchase on gender, nursing and the socio-political context in which the profession operates. Men appear to be well served by a career in nursing. Despite their lesser numbers they are likely to ea...

Gender-based Grouping of Mobile Student Societies

The next frontier for sensor networks is sensing the human society. Several mobile societies are emerging, especially with wide deployment of wireless LANs (WLANs) on campuses. With the rapid increase in WLAN deployment come various research challenges. WLAN traces pertaining to network usage contain very useful information and can provide us with a lot of insight about mobile user behavior and...

Gender in Transition