Men, Masculinities and
Gender Relations in Development

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 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. Additional collaborators in the series included SIDA, The London School of Economics, The University of Oxford, ACORD and Save The Children.

The seminars arose out of a need to explore issues relating to men and masculinities within the context of gender and development. In recent years both academics and practitioners have begun to question whether established policy regarding gender and development has evolved in to a gender equitable approach, or whether it has maintained an overriding focus on women.

Academics, practitioners and students from a variety of disciplines and regional backgrounds took part in the meetings which reconsidered concepts, frameworks and policies in gender and development, and the potential for incorporating men and masculinities into these. They focused on a number of empirical studies which illuminated gendered relationships and gender based inclusion and exclusion.

The seminars concluded with discussions on the implications of the further incorporation of theories concerning men and masculinities into policy making.
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