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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Male Identity"”.
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Paranoia, power and male identity in John Buchan's Literary War
… the intersections between paranoia, power, and male identity in the first three Hannay novels – The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915), Greenmantle (1916), and Mr. Standfast (1919) – of John Buchan (1875-1940), and the close links between these intersections and the rhetoric and discourses surrounding …
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Instaman: a case study of male identity expression on Instagram
Navigating conversations about identity and masculinity can be hard for some young men. Society has a particular view on what makes a man manly based on cultural expectations and social norms. Instaman: A case study of male identity expression on Instagram qualitatively looks at how men talk and …
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The Everyday Lives of Men: An Ethnographic Investigation of Young Adult Male Identity
… a neutral lens that did not assume an existing male deficit or crisis. The major findings revolved around the complexity of the male social networks, including the men’s need for belonging and in particular same sex friendships, the implicit and explicit rules of engagement, rational reflective …
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Rape and Male Identity in Arthurian Romance, Chrétien de Troyes to Marion Zimmer Bradley
… romances were still largely focused on the male characters, favoring their development over the female characters'. In the 16th century, Spenser also favored the male point of view but problematized his re-imagined Arthurian legend with male anxiety about women in power and the changing …
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"To Make Him Feel His Manhood" : Black Male Identity and the Politics of Gender In the Post-Emancipation South
<p> identity among African Americans in South Carolina during Reconstruction. Moving from the battles to define freedom on the plantations of rural Barnwell District at the dawn of freedom, to the drill fields of the state militia; from the church pulpits and legislative halls where elite black men …
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Reflections On Leaking Men And Abject Masculinities: Challenging Representations Of Male Identity In And Through Body-Based Performance Art
… on the representation of masculinity in male body-based performance art placed emphasis on the deconstruction of normative masculine identities. The focus of these investigations tended to position the image of masculinity within Lacan’s sexuation matrix, and as such, these …
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Falling into the gay world: Manhood, marriage, and family in Indonesia
… between homosexuality and conceptions of male gender, and it is argued that sexuality plays a minimal role in defining adult male identity in Indonesia which is instead achieved through marriage and reproduction. While the significance of family in defining individual identity is well …
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"Now there are no rules" : boundary activity in a psychoanalytically run-group therapeutic intervention for adolescent boys with learning difficulties : a case study exploration
… context of an understanding of adolescent male identity in the Cape Flats area of the Western Cape.
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Critical Discourse Analysis of Sexual Enhancement Medication Ads
… medication" and how this discourse constructs male identity and subjectivity.</p>
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'Hanging About’: The Teenage Moment of the 1970s/80s and its representation in British Art from the 1990s. With reference to artists: Paul Housley George Shaw Paul Rooney
Britain in the late 1990s witnessed a group of male, same generation artists begin to produce work that focussed on teenage culture as they experienced it in the 1970s and 80s in the West Midlands and North West of England. For a period, into the mid 2000s, this became a significant part of their …
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Is the identity development process intersectional?: the story of 15 gay white male Chicagoans
… the ages of 21 and 42 living in Chicago. Gay identity development primarily occurs through the dissipation of barriers to self-acceptance, while white identity development takes constant conscious thought and action to build up understanding. The inverse nature of these two processes …
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African American Male Student-Athletes: Identity and Academic Performance
… of the current research was to examine racial, male and athletic identities and their individual and collective impact on the academic performance of African American male Division I student-athletes (AAMSAs). Data was collected using the Multidimensional Inventory of Black Identity (MIBI), the …
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Resistance and Identity in Ernest Gaines' The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, A Lesson Before Dying, and A Gathering of Old Men
This thesis examines resistance as a method of identity formation in Ernest Gaines' <italic>The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman<italic>, <italic>A Lesson Before Dying<italic>, and <italic>A Gathering of Old Men<italic>. For this purpose, I situate the author's focus on rural southern black …
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Domesticity, Manhood, and the Natural Environment in Antebellum American Literature
… but, with some exceptions, descriptions of male identity and the environment most often reference an ecologically-destructive patriarchal mode. In the American antebellum period, the figure of the frontiersman best represents this patriarchal view, and his effortless mobility, …
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Buddy films and gender identity : representing the bonds of masculinity /
… homoerotic. As a genre, the buddy films focus on male relationships, thematically seeking to mediate the boundaries surrounding the homosocial continuum and the intimacy and eroticism implicit in male bonding. Theories of genre, gender and identity are used to analyze the construction of masculine …
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Understanding Reading Challenges Among Black Boys: A Case Study of Third-Grade Title I Students
… approach grounded in African American male theory (Bush & Bush, 2013), the active view of reading (Duke & Cartwright, 2021), and principles of race theory, the study examined Title I is limits, policy effectiveness, AVR implementation, and whether PRT informs monitoring of race-related …
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Youth at risk: politics, crime; its accessories and youth justice in South Africa
… also be accredited towards expressions of gender identity as well as the manner in which society construct and reconstruct such identities. Dominant theorists' upon this subject, reason that poor, young men associate marginalization and powerlessness experienced under the Apartheid and …
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Masculinity in Crisis? A study on the Threat to Masculine Identities through Unemployment
… derived positions wherein masculinity, male identity and male performance all centre on work. In light o f this alleged centrality of employment and occupational status in the lives of men, unemployment might be seen as a providing a situation where masculinity is under challenge. Also, …
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The Turning Point of Who Shall Be Master: Killer of Sheep, Naming, Gender, and the Gaze of African American Women
… film masterfully rebirthed the African American male identity; unfortunately, though, neglected to uplift Black women from the roles that far preceded Blaxploitation.</p> <p>Blaxploitation largely perpetuated socially-destructive stereotypes of the African American family and community as a …
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Beyond Bad Dogs: Toward a Pedagogy of Engagement of Male Students
… have identified deficiencies in classical identity development theory pertaining to women; gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, or trans-gendered people; people of color, people with disabilities; and other historically underrepresented identities. Further, the school of thought is that student …
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