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- 1From:Southwest Review (Vol. 95, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedThe progress of dance in America has been bedeviled by labels affixed to it by the early white settlers--largely Puritans laboring hard to make the colonies inhabitable (by their standards) and Christian. Dancing was...
- 2From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 51, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedCritics often note that detective fiction in general, and noir in particular, concerns itself with issues of masculinity as expressed through the "hard boiled" detective that often roams the dark imaginative cityscapes...
- 3From:The Southern Literary Journal (Vol. 42, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedOn the surface, A Death in the Family appears to be James Agee's dreamy meditation on his childhood and its defining event: the sudden death of his father in an automobile crash when Agee was only six years old. Early...
- 4From:Research in African Literatures (Vol. 45, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe present article examines the way Zakia Tahiri's film Number One (2009) foregrounds a renewed understanding of gender and gender relations in contemporary Morocco, especially in the wake of the New Family Code Reform...
- 5From:Biography (Vol. 35, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedStein, Joel Man Made: A Stupid Quest for Masculinity. Joel Stein. New York: Grand Central, 2012. 285 pp. $29.98. "Joel Stein, married and almost 40, finds out he's about to become a dad. The ultrasound says it's a...
- 6From:Genders (Issue 56) Peer-Reviewed[1] In the spring of 1789, the impeachment of former East India Company president Warren Hastings for war crimes in India was entering its second year. The outbreak of revolutionary violence in France was still a few...
- 7From:Sexuality and Culture (Vol. 16, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis article takes as its starting point the observation that contemporary pornography is, in a significant sense, about masturbation. This connection has been largely ignored in recent research on pornography. Yet, if...
- 8From:The Journal of Men's Studies (Vol. 15, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe concept and study of masculinities has been a complex and rigorous one. Numerous disciplines attempt to conceptualize men and masculinity and seemingly compound the elusive topic. However, it is evident that each...
- 9From:Irish Economic and Social History (Vol. 35) Peer-ReviewedThis thesis examines the socio-cultural construction of masculinities through a case study of the heroic legacies of Michael Collins. Utilising a multidisciplinary gendered methodology, it analyses biographical and...
- 10From:International Journal of Men's Health (Vol. 4, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedTo date there has been limited research examining constructs of masculinities among marginalised men and how this relates to health experience. This paper aims to contribute to the literature in this field by exploring...
- 11From:Australian Literary Studies (Vol. 20, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIn 1903 A.G. Stephens, literary editor and mentor, wrote to Miles Franklin about the `bruise' scene in My Brilliant Career. `Is this your experience', he inquired. `Does it represent your own feelings? Why should the...
- 12From:The Counseling Psychologist (Vol. 26, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe purpose of this study was to develop a measure of male identity based on Wade's (1998) theory of male reference group identity dependence. The construct was operationalized in the form of a self-report instrument,...
- 13From:Australian Journal of Language and Literacy (Vol. 21, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe practice of re-reading and re-writing school textbooks can be used to make problematic representations of masculinity and men. The issue of traditional forms of masculinity as privileged within educational settings...
- 14From:Ethnology (Vol. 34, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedColonialism left a wrong impression of masculinity among inhabitants of the Eastern Kwanga region in the East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea. People living in villages in this region are easily influenced by social...
- 15From:Journal of Social History (Vol. 30, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis article examines the reconstruction of working-class masculinity in early twentieth-century Chile through the transformation of a population of itinerant rural laborers into a permanent and trained labor force....
- 16From:The Journal of Men's Studies (Vol. 5, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMale identity during the founding of America depended on marriage and fatherhood as a means to acquire symbolic immortality. The founders felt family dynasty carried a man's legacy into the future, contributing to the...
- 17From:Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire (Vol. 13, Issue 2-3)from First New York 2013 The wind blows without notice, anywhere in our city far beyond, The colonial film goes on for so many uncountable decades. We all talk without really saying anything, just the same talk...
- 18From:English in Africa (Vol. 43, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis article begins by discussing what Christo Doherty in his article "Trauma and the Conscript Memoirs of the South African 'Border War'," published in English in Africa 42.2 (2015), calls the "explanatory schema" for...
- 19From:Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies (Vol. 8, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe car has been identified as an element of modern identities, interwoven also with gender relations. The masculinity of the automobile subject draws on the steering and controlling of the car as a technological...
- 20From:Critical Studies in Men's Fashion (Vol. 3, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT This article examines how, in the latter aughts, men from the United States thought about their style, favourite clothing, masculine style(s) and the ways they imagined masculinity as articulated through...