This book addresses many of the crucial questions confronting gender studies. The readings included here have emerged from the experiences of men and women struggling to make sense of the impact of the men's movement on their individual lives and on their communities.

New Directions in Theory and Psychology -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part 1: Theory -- Chapter 1: The Politics of Men's Pain -- Chapter 2: Dichotomies in the Making of Men -- Chapter 3: Cultural and Gender Accountability in the "Just Therapy" Approach -- Part 2: Men's Development -- Chapter 4: Boys and Education in Australia -- Chapter 5: Healing the Mother Wound -- Chapter 6: Step by Step: Developing Respectful and Effective Ways of Working with Young Men to Reduce Violence -- Chapter 7: Moving Towards Respect: A Quest for Balance -- Chapter 8: Sunday Mowing -- Chapter 9: Growing Up as a Man -- Part 3: Partnership and Practice -- Chapter 10: Perspectives on the Men's Movement -- Chapter 11: Men's Culture, the Men's Movement, and the Constitution of Men's Lives -- Chapter 12: A Feminist Journeying through Masculinity -- Chapter 13: Adopting the Principle of Pro-Feminism -- Chapter 14: Partnership Accountability -- About the Editors and Contributors -- About the Book