Educate for reflective masculinity: comment on Alberto Pellai’s article
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‘Male education’ is one of the most urgent, radical contemporary challenges if we recognize that many of the problems of the world we live in – from gender violence, to crime, to war, to the devastation of nature, to the birth crisis – are somehow connected to an encumbered hegemony of pathological, (self-)destructive models of virility and the slow, laborious formulation, in people’s conciousness and in social practice, of alternative, more ecological and non-violent models of masculinity. [...]
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