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  • Frequently asked questions about pro-feminist men and pro-feminist men’s politics
    24 Feb 2010

    Who are pro-feminist men? What do they believe? How do men come to be pro-feminist? Does being pro-feminist mean that you are anti-male? Find answers to these and many more questions in this handy guide.

  • CFP: Beyond Don Juan: Rethinking Iberian Masculinities
    13 Feb 2010

    CALL FOR PAPERS

    BEYOND DON JUAN: RETHINKING IBERIAN MASCULINITIES
    New York, March 31-April 1, 2011

    The Catalan Center at New York University
    In collaboration with:

    Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, New York University
    Latino Studies Program, New York University
    Men and Masculinities, State University of New York at Stony Brook
    Centre Dona i Literatura/Càtedra UNESCO “Dones, desenvolupament i cultures”, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
    CEDIC (Centre d’Estudis dels Drets Individuals i Col.lectius), Ajuntament de Barcelona, Spain

  • CFP: Preventing the sexual exploitation of adolescent boys
    08 Feb 2010

    Promundo and an International Advisory Committee, with support from the OAK Foundation, announce a call for proposals for pilot-scale projects related to the prevention of the sexual exploitation of adolescent boys (10-19 years old).

  • The harms of pornography exposure among children and young people
    05 Feb 2010

    Exposure to pornography is routine among children and young people, with a range of notable and often troubling effects. Particularly among younger children, exposure to pornography may be disturbing or upsetting. Exposure to pornography helps to sustain young people’s adherence to sexist and unhealthy notions of sex and relationships. And, especially among boys and young men who are frequent consumers of pornography, including of more violent materials, consumption intensifies attitudes supportive of sexual coercion and increases their likelihood of perpetrating assault. While children and young people are sexual beings and deserve age-appropriate materials on sex and sexuality, pornography is a poor, and indeed dangerous, sex educator.

  • 'Fathers' rights' and the defence of paternal authority in Australia
    05 Feb 2010

    Feminism’s achievements regarding violence against women are a key target for the fathers’ rights movement. This article provides an overview of the impact of the fathers’ rights movement on men’s violence against women. It documents the ways in which fathers’ rights groups in Australia have influenced changes in family law, which privilege parental contact over safety, particularly through moves toward a presumption of children’s joint residence. They have attempted to discredit female victims of violence, to wind back the legal protections available to victims and the sanctions imposed on perpetrators, and to undermine services for the victims of men’s violence.

  • A Request to Men’s Organizations and Allies for Support of Protective Child Custody (in English, Spanish, and French)
    27 Jan 2010

    Male supremacist groups (“Father’s Rights”) have caused unspeakable harm to our country and to our children by encouraging abusive fathers, often with little past involvement with their children, to seek custody as a tactic to pressure a mother to return or to punish her for leaving. The following call for support comes from the US-based National Organization for Men Against Sexism (NOMAS).

    For further discussions of 'fathers' rights' groups, see some of the pieces in XY's collection on 'men's and fathers' rights'.

  • Australian request for tender: Gender experts panel
    14 Jan 2010

    The Australian Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA) invites suitably qualified organisations to tender for the provision of a Gender Panel.
    The Australian Government Office for Women in FaHCSIA plays a key role in advancing the status of women through research, policy advice, consultation and program administration across the government.

  • Call for articles, special issue of NORMA: Men, Resistance and Political Radicalization
    14 Jan 2010

    NORMA - Nordic Journal for Masculinity Studies
    Special issue, Fall 2010:
    Men, Resistance and Political Radicalization
    Theme editors: Ann-Dorte Christensen & Sune Qvotrup Jensen, Aalborg University

  • Racial Mis-Profiling More Commonplace Among Black Men
    13 Jan 2010

    From boxer Mike Tyson to the late superstar Michael Jackson. From O. J. Simpson to more recently disgraced serial philanderer Tiger Woods, everywhere you look, it seems that some Black man somewhere is under the unrelenting public microscope for some sort of personal transgression. Moreover, these personal missteps seem to be magnified by an ever carnal, voyeuristic media all too eager to propagate long held stereotypes of men of color, in particular, black men as deviant, psychotic menaces to the larger society.

  • Male teachers in schools - An XY collection
    12 Jan 2010

    There is considerable debate over whether boys' education is shaped in significant ways by the sex of their teachers, and in particular, whether boys need male teachers. Here, XY presents a selection of key journal articles on this issue.