ABSTRACT
Before moving to a discussion of prevention programs for men’s violence against women, it seems appropriate to talk about the “big picture.” As we have alluded to several times, the problem of men’s violence against women is a problem for individual men but it is also embedded in larger social systems. The chapters that follow this one are mainly focused on prevention efforts in somewhat limited social contexts: individuals, small groups, and school and community organizations. Larger efforts such as The White Ribbon Campaign and Men Can Stop Rape are attempts to effect changes on a larger scale, mainly by raising awareness of the problem and promoting attitude change within national populations. As Rutherford and Chapman (1988) argued, “to produce a masculinity whose desire is no longer dependent on oppression, no longer policed by homophobia, and one that no longer resorts to violence and misogyny to maintain its sense of coherence.…is a major political project” (p. 18).
