Prof Michael Flood, an expert in engaging men and boys, discusses the opportunities and challenges in this field. He explores topics such as preventing violence and abuse, building gender equality, promoting fatherhood, and addressing online misogyny. He also examines the link between pornography and violence and provides advice for parents on addressing these issues with their children.
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Growth Drivers of Engaging Men Field
The engaging men field has expanded due to feminism highlighting men's gendered lives and health fields addressing men as social problems.
This growth promotes violence prevention, health, fatherhood, and gender equality with multiple strategies and community relevance.
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Effective Violence Prevention Tips
Effective violence prevention with men requires sound theory, comprehensive multi-level strategies, relevance, and engaging participants.
Use positive, strengths-based approaches, intersectional perspectives, and challenge men's defensiveness to foster accountability and change.
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Risks of Engaging Men Work
Engaging men risks overshadowing women-focused programs and marginalizing women's voices, despite male privilege.
Patriarchal dynamics can place men activists on pedestals or cause tokenism, requiring accountability at personal, relational, and institutional levels.
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Work with men and boys has been growing rapidly in the last 30 years, especially around the issues of preventing violence and abuse, building gender equality, promoting fatherhood, and health and wellbeing. To what extent is this a positive development? What are some of the opportunities, challenges and problems that engaging men and boys brings? And how can this work be delivered most effectively, to have a serious impact in tackling issues such as gender-based violence? There are few experts around the world better equipped to provide answers to these questions than Prof Michael Flood. He gives an in-depth, critical overview of the ‘engaging men’ field, and discusses his own story of being an anti-sexist activist since the 1980s. He also explains why it’s vital to think about issues like pornography and online misogyny in this work, and gives some pointers for parents in how to address these issues with children, and sons in particular.
Michael is a Professor in the School of Justice at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. He has written numerous academic publications on issues including violence against women and violence prevention, men and masculinities, pro-feminist men’s advocacy, male heterosexuality, fathering, and pornography. This includes a book with Palgrave Macmillan in 2019, ‘Engaging Men and Boys in Violence Prevention’. He also runs the website XY Online, which is full of resources on men, masculinities and gender politics.
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