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From: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...
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From: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...
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From: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...
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From: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...
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From:Feminist Studies (Vol. 33, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIN 1872, TWO ENGLISH "ladies" visited Biscay, in the north of Spain. When they attempted to go for a walk down the central streets of the city unaccompanied, they were disappointed to discover that it was impossible. In...
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From:Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 (Vol. 41, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedSir Philip Sidney is often considered a profeminist participant in the Elizabethan polemics of gender. His biographers stress the influence of loving, intelligent women in his life, and many critics have found a...
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From: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...
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From: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...
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From: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...
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From: Victorians Institute Journal[(essay date 1999) In the following essay, McDermott notes the ways in which Trollope portrays his protagonist as androgynous. McDermott then suggests that the warden’s “feminine” qualities, while occasionally depicted...
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From:Velvet Light TrapPeer-ReviewedJM: Did you call me Lotte? Maxine: Do you mind? JM: No, not really. --Being John Malkovich (1999) This essay's main title, "Buying John Malkovich," is borrowed from an article in the August 2000 issue of...
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From:Journal of the History of Sexuality (Vol. 16, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIN DESCRIBING LATE-NINETEENTH- and early-twentieth-century Buenos Aires, Argentine historians often invoke the category of "progress." Basing their analysis on the immense economic and urban growth of the period,...
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From:TLS. Times Literary Supplement (Issue 6060)The death on April 22 of Billy McNeill, long tune captain of Celtic Football Club and the first British player to lift the European Cup, in 1967, was marked with due respect. The journalistic use of such terms as...
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From:African American Review (Vol. 47, Issue 2-3) Peer-ReviewedIn act one, scene one of August Wilson's Fences, Troy Maxson, a retired Negro League slugger who works as a garbage collector in 1957 Pittsburgh, makes a complaint to his friend Jim Bono and his wife Rose. They have told...
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From:Journal of the History of Sexuality (Vol. 21, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedON A WINTRY NOVEMBER NIGHT in 1955, twenty-year-old Russian Red Army private Mikhail Yermolaev met a group of his comrades in the village of Rakhia near Leningrad. They were looking for a good time and found it in...
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From:Feminist Studies (Vol. 38, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedDuring the 2008 US election, internet images circulated of vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin carrying big guns. In a commentary titled "Sarah Palin: Operation 'Castration,'" French Lacanian theorist Jacques-Alain...
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From:The Mailer Review (Vol. 6, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedMailer's An American Dream reveals some of the most frustrating but also the most fascinating representations of gender in contemporary American fiction. This essay illuminates the ways in which Mailer himself...
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From:Atenea (Vol. 28, Issue 1)"The turn of the century," writes Christopher Breu, "marked a gradual but decisive shift in the cultural ideology of what constituted a valorized male identity, moving from the older discourse of manliness to a newer...
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From:Women and Language (Vol. 30, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedTo study how people weigh information when judging their own and others' masculinity-femininity (M-F), the author asked 170 male and 205 female participants to rate themselves and their best friends on M-F,...
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From:Women and Language (Vol. 24, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedMarketing masculinity: Gender identity and popular magazines, Anthony J. Vigorito and Timothy J. Curry. Sex Roles 39 no. 1-2: 135-52 This study examines role portrayals of males in popular magazines. 7935 men in...