Locating Men in Sexual and Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice

Past, Present, Futures

Bibliographic Data

ID10797409
AuthorsJessica Strong (0000-0001-8626-4020, Queen Mary University of London, corresponding author), Ernestina Coast (0000-0002-8703-307X, Queen Mary University of London), Malvern Chiweshe (0000-0002-3160-5921, Queen Mary University of London)
Year2025
Volume56
Issue2
Pages332-344
Publication date2025-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueStudies in Family Planning (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0039-3665 • E-ISSN: 1728-4465
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/sifp.70003
PMID40344228
OpenAlexW4410248480
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited58

Since the International Conference on Population and Development in 1994, global policies, and agenda‐setting milestones have emphasized that universal sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) are unattainable without the meaningful engagement and inclusion of men. Despite this, the field of SRHR continues to struggle with how and in what ways men can and should be included in research, programs, and policies. In this commentary, we argue that the programmatic focus of SRHR limits the capacity to produce the data and evidence needed to inform gender transformational change. For men to be meaningfully engaged with by SRHR, researchers need an analytic lens that can capture the manifestations and outcomes of gender and power. We consider the conceptual complementarities between two theoretical frameworks: hegemonic masculinities and Reproductive Justice. We contend that bringing together these conceptual approaches to men and SRHR offers an analytic framework to iterate and innovate approaches to research. Such changes will allow for a greater interrogation of gender and power and the production of data and evidence necessary to grapple with the ongoing injustices that curtail people's sexual and reproductive freedoms

Economic Justice · Political science · Population · Power (physics · Public relations · Reproductive health · Reproductive rights · Sexual and reproductive health and rights · Sociology · Transformational leadership · Transformative learning · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Law · Reproductive Health and Technologies

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