Men at Work

Development studies has long examined gender through the lens of women's disadvantage, and this collection widens that view to ask how men's varied identities as gendered people shape the work they do day to day in poorer countries. Rather than treating women and men as two fixed categories, the contributors treat gender as a set of relationships. The papers take up both the theory and practice of the field: how men's work should be defined and measured, and detailed studies of working men in particular settings. Throughout, the authors argue that some men are vulnerable because of their gender, and that understanding the inner lives of different groups of men can change how gender relations are understood.