WUNRN
CALL
FOR PAPERS - Gender & Development:
Working with Men on Gender Equality
The March 2013 issue of the
international journal Gender & Development, (published for
Oxfam GB by Routledge/Taylor and Francis) will look at Working with Men on
Gender Equality. The 1995 Beijing Platform for Action, issued at the Fourth UN
Conference on Women, states that ‘women share common concerns that can be addressed only by working
together and in partnership with men towards the common goal of gender equality
around the world’. Now, some 17 years later, we are
asking ‘where are we now?’ when it comes to involving women and men in work to bring about
gender-just development, seeking to assess both the progress made, and the
pitfalls encountered.
Gender & Development first published a very influential
issue on Men and Masculinity in 1997. Since then, working with men has become
standard practice for many development organisations working on gender issues.
What are the challenges and the successes? Has some of the energy around
feminist transformation been lost? Or are the links between changing men’s behaviour
and the empowerment of women so clear that this body of practice is itself
transformative? As ever, the answers are contextual and case-specific. This
issue hopes to explore some of the key issues in grounded case studies of real
experience of working with men to promote gender equality.
Development and feminist policymakers and practitioners, and
researchers, are all invited to share insights in this Working with Men with
Men on Gender Equality issue of Gender
& Development. The journal
is essential reading for all concerned with gender-fair development. It is
currently read in over 90 countries, and our content is published as an online
and print journal at www.tandfonline.com/gad.
We also publish material from the journal on our free access website at www.genderanddevelopment.org
Areas from which authors might want to
share their research and experience include working with men on:
·
gender-based violence, both
domestic and in conflict and post-conflict contexts
·
HIV and AIDS and sexual and
reproductive health and rights more broadly
·
fatherhood and caring
·
gender mainstreaming in
institutions
·
livelihoods and changing
patterns of gendered employment
Please send a paragraph
outlining your proposed idea for an article for this issue to csweetman@oxfam.org.uk
as soon as possible, and before the
commissioning deadline: 9 July 2012. If we are able to offer space for
your contribution, we will write to you by 16 July 2012 to say so. Commissioned articles will need to be
completed for a deadline of 30 September 2012.
Please
note, G&D has an editorial policy of publishing in clear, jargon-free English, in
order to be of use to the widest possible readership. All articles need to be based on first-hand experience, or
research on-the-ground in particular country contexts, and have direct
relevance to development policy and practice. Don’t worry if you
think you are not a writer for a journal – we will help you with style and
language!
For full guidelines and more information on the journal visit