Positive Masculinities

PostivMasc conference October 19th and 20th presentations

• Keynote lecture. Professor Michael Flood. Masculinity and violence against women
• Presentation. Bolton , R et al. How do young people (men and women, 18-24 years) understand masculinities and VAW in Ireland?
• Presentation. Cerdán, A et al. Grey zones of gender-based violence and gender roles in young people in Spain
• Presentation. Kurhi, M. Forms of masculinity and positions on VAW among young Palestinian and Jewish men and women in Israel
• Presentation. Salazar, M.  Young men´s and young women´s understanding of masculinities and and violence violence against women in Sweden.
• Presentation. Flood, M.  Principles and promising practices for engaging boys and young men in ending men’s violence against women.
• Presentation. Barker, G.  What works to achieve healthy masculinities and violence reduction? Reflections from Equimundo’s work
• Presentation. Marcos-Marcos, J. Masculinities and gender–based based violence educational interventions among young people
• Presentation. Daoud, N. Strategies and action to promote positive masculinities: Findings from our multi-country concept mapping study
• Presentation.  Vives-Cases, C. Engaging youth in promoting positive masculinities to eradicate violence against women. Policy briefs overview
• Presentation. Nardini, K. Introduction to PositivMasc educational guide and videos
• Presentation. Bolton, R. Promoting and overcoming barriers for positive masculinities: an example from Ireland.

Educational material

• Educational-Guide-PositivMasc-2022

Policy briefs 

• Policy brief. Promoting Positive Masculinities to Address Violence Against Women in Young People: Evidence From the PositivMasc Project
• Policy brief. PositivMasc project Swedish version

Project peer reviewed publications

• Cerdán-Torregrosa, A. “It is what we have been told to do”: Masculinities and femininities crossing with sexual orientation and feminist activism in Spain
• “I Reject it, But That’s What Normally Happens”: Grey Zones of Gender-Based Violence and Gender Roles in Young People.
• “Wherever There’s Men, it can Happen”: Constructions of Violence Against Women by Young Adults in Ireland.
• Promoting Positive Masculinities to Address Violence Against Women: A Multicountry Concept Mapping Study.
• Young people’s constructions of gender norms and attitudes towards violence against women: a critical review of qualitative empirical literature.
• “If You Do Not Fit in With the Stereotype, They Eat You Alive”: Discourses of Masculinities and Their Reflections in Young Spanish Men’s Health
• ‘They’re you know, their audience’: How women are (ab)used to cement the heterosexual bonds between men.
• Positive Masculinities and Gender-Based Violence Educational Interventions Among Young People: A Systematic Review
• PositivMasc: masculinities and violence against women among young people. Identifying discourses and developing strategies for change, a mixed-method study protocol

Working papers

• Young people’s construction of masculinity and violence against
  women: a cross-national comparison of Ireland, Israel, Spain and
  Sweden 
• Mapping the policy and legal landscape in addressing violence against
  women in Ireland, Israel, Spain and Sweden: a cross-country comparison

 Selected related publications from the team

• Negotiating Masculinity, Violence, and Responsibility: A Situational Analysis of Young Nicaraguan Men´s Discourses on Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence.
• Respectable, Disreputable, or Rightful? Young Nicaraguan Women´s Discourses on Feminity, Intimate Partner Violence, and Sexual Abuse: A Grounded Theory Situational Analysis.
• Screening and receiving information for intimate partner violence in healthcare settings: a cross-sectional study of Arab and Jewish women of childbearing age in Israel.
• Intimate Partner Violence Prevalence, Recurrence, Types, and Risk Factors Among Arab, and Jewish Immigrant and Nonimmigrant Women of Childbearing Age in Israel
• Childhood experiences of violence in perpetrators as a risk factor of intimate partner violence: a systematic review
• The effect of intimate partner violence and other forms of violence against women on health