In the last two years, men’s health approaches have had growing visibility in the violence prevention field. Some men’s health advocates have argued for the value of a “men’s health lens” on domestic violence.
Men’s health approaches have both strengths and weaknesses in engaging men and boys in the prevention of domestic and sexual violence.
What actions are needed to drive the engagement of men and boys in combating online gender-based violence? In these notes prepared for a UN Women event in Seoul, Korea, Professor Flood offers recommendations for programming and research to drive the engagement of men and boys in reducing and preventing online gender-based violence
Programming:
Zero Tolerance and White Ribbon Scotland have published findings from their research on how to frame masculinity, gender equality, and men’s violence against women to change men’s thinking and encourage action.
Ending gender-based violence requires preventing it occurring in the first place.
Importantly, this requires work with men and boys, including to challenge the stereotypes and cultures that underpin the drivers of gender-based violence.
This brief is intended to outline policy, regulatory and legislative opportunities for promoting more positive and expansive forms of masculinity and working with men and boys to prevent gender-based violence.
Opportunities outlined in this brief include:
The End Violence Against Women Coalition has published a report setting out the evidence base for how best to engage men and boys in ending violence against women and girls.
The following describes initiatives and strategies that can be adopted by Government that will build capacity in Australia to effectively engage men and boys in violence prevention. Note that these initiatives are focused on primary prevention rather than initiatives aimed at men and boys at risk of using violence (secondary prevention / intervention) or already using violence (tertiary prevention / intervention).
This new book addresses the historical debate within feminism and critical studies of men and masculinities on whether men should be encouraged to develop alternative masculinities, or whether they should be challenged to renounce masculinity altogether. Bob Pease argues that men have to move beyond the illusion of masculinity to address their habitual ways of relating that reinforce dominance and oppression, and that they have to discard their adherence to binary gender identities and foster subjectivities that are multiple and fluid.
Several years ago I was in the National Rugby League (NRL) Hall of Fame in Australia where I was giving a talk to players, owners, managers, and staff. I posed the question: why should men in the NRL work to end violence against women? After all, I knew this was a key issue in male allyship, along with many other important workplace and social issues of women’s rights.
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