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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Male friendship"”.
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The Politics of Male Friendship In Contemporary American Fiction
… this thesis surveys works by a range of leading male contemporary American novelists alongside the recent resurgent interest in friendship as a political concept. Long exiled from serious political philosophy, friendship returned as a crucial term in late twentieth-century communitarian debates …
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Less than ideal? The intellectual history of male friendship and its articulation in early modern drama
This thesis examines the intellectual history of male friendship through its articulation in non-Shakespearean early modern drama; and considers how dramatic texts engage with the classical ideals of male friendship. Cicero’s \(De amicitia\) provided the theoretical model for perfect friendship for …
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Rabid and Other Stories
… Other Day,” a grown man looks back on a close male friendship from his childhood, lamenting the loss of someone he loved dearly. In Rabid and Other Stories, the causes and consequences of toxic masculinity are explored through the lives and experiences of rural characters. This collection is …
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Men who 'made it': men's stories of ageing well
… greater identification with and preference for female rather than male friendship during youth. Finally, the cross cultural nature of the current research makes an original contribution by suggesting ways in which Australian and British men’s experiences of successful ageing and wellbeing may be …
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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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Tractarian Male Friendships, Intimacies, and Identities in Nineteenth-Century England
… the Oxford Movement through the lenses of friendships and intimacies; which, I contend, were at the centre of the Tractarian Movement because of the way in which the chronologies of these friendships point towards an earlier starting point for the Oxford Movement and because of the way in …
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Pagbukadkad ng bulaklak = Blooming of the flower : an ethnographic study of a friendship group of same-sex attracted middle-class young men from Metro Manila in the Philippines
… in the Philippines by focusing on a longstanding friendship group of same-sex attracted middle-class young men living in Metro Manila who identify as bakla/gay/homosexual. I explain how dynamics of gender and sexuality including identity expression are conceptualised, articulated and negotiated …