19th-November-2008
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Open Question: How important do you think gender-collaborative research is needed? | |
Open Question: How important do you think gender-collaborative research is needed?
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..In social Science? There is growing real awareness about the importance of social men's issues. This project was done between male and female academics. "The European Research Network on Men in Europe comprises women and men researchers who are researching on men in an explicitly gendered way. The bringing together of women and men researchers is extremely important, necessary and timely in the development of research on men in Europe. Research on men that draws only on the work of men is likely to neglect the very important research that has been and is being made by women to research on men. As such, research and networking based on only men researchers is likely to reproduce some of the existing gender inequalities of research and policy development. In contrast, gender-collaborative research is necessary in the pursuit of gender equality, in the combating of gender discrimination, and in the achievement of equality and in the fight against discrimination more generally"... "For a very long time, men, masculinity and men’s powers and practices were generally taken-for-granted. Gender was largely seen as a matter of and for women. Men were generally seen as ungendered, as ‘just like that’, natural or naturalised – not only in everyday life and in politics, but also in academia. This is now less the case than even ten years ago. There has been a gradually growing realisation that men and masculinities are just as gendered as are women and femininities. It is now clear that ‘gender’ and ‘gender relations’ are about both women and men. This gendering of men is both a matter of changing academic and political analyses of men in society, and contemporary changes in the form of men’s own lives and men's experiences and perceptions, sometimes developing counter to their earlier expectations and the experiences of recent generations of other men". Aims and description of whole project at: http://www.eurowrc.org/06.contributi...contrib.en.htm Thoughts? Hi Ruper, so many questions! ;-) This is their site, which describes much better their policies, resources, methodologies, aim and Universities involved in the project: http://www.cromenet.org/ | 
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