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ToolsPhilip, Shannon (2015) Making men and masculinities visible: A macro level enquiry into conceptualizations of gender and violence in Indian policies. NORMA, 10 (3-4). pp. 326-338. ISSN 1890-2138
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This paper explores how ‘gender’ is being conceptualized in Indian policies on men’s violence towards women. It demonstrates that the politics of masculinities, operating within a deeply political process of policy formation, allows men and masculinities to remain invisible in ‘gender’ policies. The paper argues that a dominating economic logic, a hierarchy of knowledge, a reductionist ‘rationality’ and an apolitical understanding of gender in the Indian policy process, allow for a narrow and compartmentalized idea of ‘gender’ in such policies. This inevitably leads to a narrow understanding of ‘gendered violence’ too by not bringing men and masculinities into question. Violence towards women gets conceptualized at the macro level as violence against a woman’s ‘modesty’ and her femininity which relationally places men and masculinities as ‘protectors’ whilst keeping the ‘threats’ to this ‘modesty’ obscured. The central tenet of this paper is that making the role of men and masculinities visible in policies and debates around gendered violence is a crucial step in better understanding and designing policies that check male violence against women.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Publisher Copyright: © 2015 The Nordic Association for Research on Men and Masculinities. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | development,gender,india,masculinities,policy,violence,gender studies,sdg 16 - peace, justice and strong institutions ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3318 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Sociology |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Centre for Research on Children and Families |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Jul 2023 13:30 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Mar 2024 18:19 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/92615 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/18902138.2015.1102378 |
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