The “new masculinity”: Addiction treatment as a reconstruction of gender in Puerto Rican evangelist street ministries

Hansen, Helena

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.06.048

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“…These narratives had two roles: first, they legitimised facilitators in the eyes of participants as men; second, they framed change, not in terms of self-reflection or emerging critical awareness of the individual and collective harms of adherence to particular forms of masculinity, but rather in terms of personal salvation and redemption. These narratives of change have parallels with the wider literature on changing masculinities, be this engagement in Pentecostal religion in Puerto Rico (Hansen 2012) or HIV diagnosis in South Africa (Sikweyiya, Jewkes and Dunkle 2014), both of which include elements of being 'saved'.…”

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confidence: 85%

Constructing, reproducing and challenging masculinities in a participatory intervention in urban informal settlements in South Africa

Gibbs

Myrttinen²,

Washington

et al. 2019

Culture, Health & Sexuality

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Participatory interventions with men and boys to transform masculinities are increasingly common to improve health and reduce intimate partner violence and HIV-related risk. Yet, despite this, there has been little consideration of how facilitators' own masculinities shape interventions. In this analysis of Stepping Stones and Creating Futures, a gender-transformative programme delivered to young men (aged 18-30 years) in urban informal settlements in Durban, South Africa we explore how facilitators' masculinities were employed to engender change in the masculinities of participants. We argue facilitators had to negotiate two tasks existing in some tension, the first, overt and the main aim of the programme: namely, challenging elements of the youthful masculinity at play in the lives of participants, such as exerting violent power over women. A second task was more covert: namely, establishing facilitators' credibility 'as men' in order to do this work with participants. Through strategies including clothes, mobile phones, jokes and storytelling, facilitators demonstrated to participants their 'successful' masculinity and could then engage with participants around emotions, non-violence and consistent condom use. This enabled facilitators and participants to undergo a limited processes of change, without 'compromising' their sense of masculinity, and without fundamentally challenging men's patriarchal privilege.

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confidence: 85%

Constructing, reproducing and challenging masculinities in a participatory intervention in urban informal settlements in South Africa

Gibbs

Myrttinen²,

Washington

et al. 2019

Culture, Health & Sexuality

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“…However, over time, 'traditional' masculinities linked to overt, patriarchal dominance are becoming less desirable in sites where companionate responsibility has become the new hegemonic norm. In such settings, men excluded from 'traditional' sources of male power may be especially likely to adopt new, emergent forms of masculinity, in which companionate responsibility is essential to being seen as both a good man and a good conjugal partner (Hansen, 2012;Ranson, 2001).…”

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Reconceiving masculinity and ‘men as partners’ for ICPD Beyond 2014: Insights from a Mexican HPV study

Wentzell¹,

Inhorn²

2014

Global Public Health

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Men are poorly integrated into sexual and reproductive health programmes, despite long-standing calls for their inclusion. From the 1994 Cairo International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) to the Policy Recommendations for the ICPD Beyond 2014, calls for 'rights for all' conflict with implicit, homogenising framing of men as patriarchal roadblocks to women's empowerment. This framing generates ambivalence about providing men's services, leading to emphasis on 'men as partners' supporting women's autonomous reproductive health decision-making rather than attention to both sexes' health needs. We argue that this framing also belies both the global rise of self-consciously non-traditional masculinities, and the fact that people's ostensibly individual sexual and reproductive health practices are profoundly relational. Here, we reimagine the concept of 'partnering' as an analytic for understanding how lived relationships influence both men's and women's sexual and reproductive practice. 'Partnering' in this sense is the context-dependent collaboration through which a range of gendered actors, not limited to male-female dyads, interact to shape health behaviour. We apply this approach to Mexican men's participation in a medical research on human papillomavirus transmission, demonstrating how spouses jointly refashioned male-focused health surveillance into familial health care and a forum for promoting progressive gender norms to their children and the broader society.

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“…However, there are a few examples of intersectional studies where researchers try to open up the black box of health risks (see Lykke ). In an ethnographic study, Hansen () explores the structural, intersectional effects of ethnicity, social class and the norms of masculine behaviour in relation to drug use. She talks about the discourse in international health studies that ascribes high rates of drug use, disease and violence among low‐income men of migrant background to a kind of pathological masculinity.…”

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Intersectional Approaches in Health‐Risk Research: A Critical Review

Nygren

Olofsson

2014

Sociology Compass

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This article aims to explore how the intersectional approach is used in health-risk research. Intersectionality as a concept has been recognized in health-risk research since the early 2000s, but not as much as in the broader field of health-inequality studies. However, in the past five years, Social Science and Medicine has published a series of review articles that argue for the necessity of bringing intersectional perspectives to the field of health-risk studies more generally and quantitative health-risk research in particular. Asking what it means for health-risk researchers to practise intersectionality articulates the implications of translating a theoretical approach across fields and disciplines. When applying intersectional theory to health-risks, health and risk are often treated as fixed categories-something that becomes problematic within an intersectional framework. In order to overcome the dividing lines of health-risk research and intersectionality we argue for a new approach that echoes the 'doing gender' of gender studies: doing risk.

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The “new masculinity”: Addiction treatment as a reconstruction of gender in Puerto Rican evangelist street ministries

Cited by 53 publications

References 29 publications

Constructing, reproducing and challenging masculinities in a participatory intervention in urban informal settlements in South Africa

Constructing, reproducing and challenging masculinities in a participatory intervention in urban informal settlements in South Africa

Reconceiving masculinity and ‘men as partners’ for ICPD Beyond 2014: Insights from a Mexican HPV study

Intersectional Approaches in Health‐Risk Research: A Critical Review

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