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Showing 1 to 20 of 121 for “"Manhood"”.
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DRAFTING INTO MANHOOD: BLACK NFL DRAFT PROSPECTS' CONCEPTIONS OF MANHOOD AND IDEAS OF PLAYING IN THE NFL
This dissertation examines how manhood is conceptualized by Black National Football League (NFL) prospects and explores how their characterizations of manhood are associated with their desire to become NFL players. This mixed-method study uses data collected by interviewing and surveying fifteen …
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The Journey to Manhood in Gaines' Bloodline
… both the culmination and a beginning of true manhood in the lives of his central characters.
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Transition to Manhood Thwarted: Struggles Portrayed Through Images
… of initiation marking the transition into manhood. When a man remains in adolescent psychology too long and identifies with the archetype of eternal youth, his developing ego is arrested. Discussion of aspects of the puer aeternus personality illustrated by examples of art works and life …
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Domesticity, Manhood, and the Natural Environment in Antebellum American Literature
… the landscape form a dominant understanding of manhood and nature in the decades before the Civil War. This study argues for the domestic man as a positive alternative to the patriarchal frontiersman. The fictional texts that are the subjects of this dissertation’s analysis emphasize the …
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The Legends of Bigfoot: Or How I Regained My Manhood
<p>Masculinity is a culturally defined identity that exists with no single way to express it. However, the cultural politics police masculinity to appear natural and non-changing, but masculinity changes over history influenced by events and the culture from which it gets its definition. Because of …
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Falling into the gay world: Manhood, marriage, and family in Indonesia
"This thesis examines conceptions of homosexuality among lower income gay men of various ethnicities in Jakarta, Indonesia. The primary focus is on the relationship between homosexuality and conceptions of male gender, and it is argued that sexuality plays a minimal role in defining adult male …
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“All Men Are Created Equal?”: Insights and Implications of Intersectional Precarious Manhood
<p>Manhood that is characterized in terms of dominant culture in the United States includes strength, power, status, affluence, and occupational success (Vandello et al., 2008). However, men who are not members of dominant culture, such as Black men in the United States, often are excluded from …
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Creating a Somali Manhood: Navigating Race, Place, and Power in Seattle, WA
This research focuses on the production of social space by young Somali men who live in low-income communities in south Seattle, Washington. Through participant observation and semi-structured interviews, this study examines social interactions in key urban spaces. These spaces include the mosque, …
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Becoming a man: the prescriptions of manhood and manliness in early modern England
… exploring the prescriptions and perceptions of manhood and manliness in England during the period c.1580-c.1700. It traces shifts in emphasis of the defining characteristics of manhood across the long-seventeenth century. Moreover, the centrality of both social status and the life cycle to the …
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The lamb and the warrior : manhood, militarism and the diocese of London 1890-1914
This thesis considers the relationship between the diocese of London and the military culture that was arguably prevalent in sections of English society in the quarter of a century preceding the outbreak of the First World War.<br></br><br></br> The various definitions of militarism are initially …
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Family matters : casework, manhood, and the Bureau for Homeless Men, St. Louis, 1925-1940
… gender, in particular the Bureau's vision of manhood, mattered immensely to the structure of the policies the Bureau created, both as a private agency and when it worked for the federal government. Taken together, these two points suggest that social workers attempted to define and solve more …
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Confronting Manhood: The Struggle of Male Characters in the Fiction of Ernest J. Gaines.
… before Dying</em> as examples of oppressed manhood, and the gradual acceptance of the characteristics of manhood in Black males. Chapter One focuses on <em>The Sky Is Gray</em> and follows the young hero as he makes his transition from child to a young man understanding manhood. The second …
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"A Boost Into Manhood" Violence and Aggression as it Relates to Sex Role Confusion
<p>This writer has taken on a seemingly grandiose task of explaining violence and aggressive behavior in adolescents in association with sex role confusion. First of all a typical psychoanalytic viewpoint will be presented which explains this struggle in a traditional since; i.e., that violence and …
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T.H.UG.L.I.F.E.: An analysis of adolescent black males’ figured manhoods and their quests for manhood
… males are socialized to adhere to a hegemonic manhood legitimizing the subordination of all women and men deemed feminine. For black males, “traditional” norms and roles associated with the dominant ideology ignore the structural discrimination that impede upon their ability to meet these …
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Caged manhood : office culture and how Walter Camp's Daily Dozen revitalized the workforce, 1903-1940
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“Kill the Indian, Save the Man”: Manhood at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, 1879-1918
This dissertation examines the role of manhood in the programme to “civilise” the Indian at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. Using gender and race theory as a frame for archival research, it argues that the model of manhood in operation at Carlisle was contested and changed throughout the …
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"Plot In ""studs Lonigan"": The Failure Of Manhood, The Triumph Of Artistry (farrell, Chicago, Illinois)"
… it is also an examination of the failure of manhood and an aesthetically unified work of art. As protagonist, Studs, in each of the three novels, attempts to define himself as a man, but the societal models he aspires to imitate leave him unfulfilled, debilitated, and finally dead before the …
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Manifest Manhood on the Santa Fe Trail: Trapping and Trading in the American Southwest, 1821-1847
This study begins in 1821 when the first Anglo parties made their way from the newly created state of Missouri to Santa Fe along the Santa Fe Trail, and it ends in 1847 with the Taos Revolt -- the most significant and bloody fighting that occurred in New Mexico during the Mexican-American War …
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