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Showing 1 to 20 of 262 for “"Masculinities"”.
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Defining postmodern masculinities: a symptomatic approach to understanding French masculinities
… works of Abdellah Taïa departing from hexagonal masculinities and examining how Maghrebi masculinities negotiate the transforming backgrounds of postmodernism in a different socio-cultural setting than France. The literary analysis will demonstrate how Taïa’s protagonists attempt to carve out a …
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Negotiating masculinities : studying risk behaviours associated with performances of 'coloured' masculinities
… In what contexts are marginalised 'coloured' masculinities performed and how do these shape 'coloured' men's subjective ideas about 'what it means to be a man'. The study employed a mixed method approach involving a questionnaire design as well as focus groups to address the research …
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THE INTERPLAY OF MASCULINITIES IN SCHOOL
This thesis investigates the interplay of masculinities for a group of boys in one elementary school in south-western Ontario. It looks specifically at how these students negotiate and enact a dominant popular masculinity in response to a particular value system and regime that dictates gender …
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The Contemporary Body Of Mexican Masculinities
: This dissertation thematizes masculinity in Mexico's post-NAFTA configurations of subjectivities and bodies, and in the geocultural politics of race and gender in order to analyze how male identities are produced and reified within these intersecting structures of oppression. It encompasses …
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Mining masculinities in the Canadian military
Gender is a contested category of analysis, generally understood to describe the characteristics and practices of its end products, men and women. Alternatively, this interdisciplinary study of changing masculinity in the Canadian Forces conceptualizes gender as characterizing the social worlds …
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British Masculinities Beyond Patriarchy, 1689-1702
This research project examines multiple constructions of masculinity during the reign of William III (1689-1702), a period often overlooked by historians of masculinity. Historical interpretations of masculinity in the early modern period have focused heavily on patriarchal models of masculinity …
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Masculinities and fatherhood in a South African context: exploring Xhosa men's experiences of fatherhood and ideas about masculinities
This is a qualitative study that explores meanings around fatherhood among Xhosa fathers in Cape Town. In so doing, the dissertation goes on to explore attitudes, beliefs, and needs of these township fathers have with regards to taking care of their children. This is a descriptive and exploratory …
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Dante's Manhoods: Authorial Masculinities before the Commedia
This study examines the ways that Dante uses concepts of the masculine in his early work to offer an analysis of the masculine ideals which lie at the basis of Dante's construction of himself as an author in the lyric poems and in his discussions of Latin and Italian. I describe ideals and …
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Exploring the connection between militarized masculinities and sexual violence within the Colombian Army. A reflection on narratives about militarized masculinities
Esta tesis explora la compleja interacción entre las masculinidades militarizadas y la violencia sexual en el Ejército colombiano, centrándose en cómo las narrativas y los discursos institucionales dan forma a comportamientos que pueden conducir a prácticas sexualmente abusivas. La investigación se …
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The affordances of masculinities: An investigation of the construction and communication of digital masculinities through UK-based life(style) Influencers
… the construction and communication of masculinities and their interplay with imagined affordances. My study aims to address the gaps existing within scholarly research in digital networked masculinities. My study is situated within the framework of Inclusive Masculinity Theory, …
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Tamot: masculinities in transition in Papua New Guinea
… ways in which Western Anthropologists typified masculinities and, to a lesser extent, femininities. Secondly, it surveys a range of literature written within the West which deals with theories of gender and attempts to apply these to the Papua New Guinean context. Following this is the chapter …
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Boys' masculinities in three adventure physical education classes
… the purpose of this study was to examine boys' masculinities in adventure physical education. The theoretical framework that guided this study was Connell's concept of masculinity. One teacher (Andy) and students from three sections of his adventure physical education class were observed and …
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Exploring Masculinities in the United States and Japan
… and similarities between American and Japanese masculinities (and their underlying values). The paper contrasts the findings regarding American and Japanese masculinities detailed in books and articles read by the author, and discusses the portrayal of masculinities in the films "The Last …
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Masculinities, self-efficacy and interior plants as leisure
… benefits of indoor plants, perceptions of masculinities, and self-efficacy in men’s decisions to grow interior plants. This exploration was facilitated through the administration of a questionnaire that included two interval level scales and four open ended questions. The participants’ …
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Men and Masculinities in the Changing Japanese Family
… of intimacy lead to men’s (re)construction of masculinities differing across family relations, with an important reason for men to select their practices so as to craft their family relations is to address their sense of well-being. Further, the pattern of men’s family relations reveals the …
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White-collar men and masculinities in contemporary urban China
… subject, and examines academic literature on masculinities in China. Chapter three examines the ‘body culture’ of informants, and how they ‘bring themselves’ to white-collar discourse through attention to their bodies in areas of daily life such as dress, movement and hygiene. Chapters four …
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Masculinities, generations and health: Men's sexual health in Bangladesh
Together, men, masculinities and health comprise an emerging area of research, activism and policy debate. International research on men’s health demonstrates how men’s enactment of masculinity may be linked to their sexual health risk. However, little research to date has explored men’s enactment …
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Race. Nation. Zombie: Imperial Masculinities Gazing at the Undead
… crises. I argue that the failure of white masculinities in these films and novel is rooted in the limited ways of knowing inherent in the Imperial Gaze. Starting in the 1930s, zombie films have attempted to recruit the double consciousness of black men to assist white men in their …
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Roman Catholic Masculinities: A Korean Roman Catholic Ethical Perspective
<p>Over the last thirty or so years, feminist scholars have been highly critical of the ways that gender roles have been understood, particularly in religious institutions, including Roman Catholicism. Although some changes have been made (e.g., women are able to take on roles that were prohibited …
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Masculinities and the Paedophile: Discursive Strategies in Irish Newspapers.
… this research examines the ways in which the masculinities of the man represented as `the paedophile¿ are constructed. This research demonstrates how the normative is reinforced through the delegitimation of the masculinities of these men. The discursive regimes and cultural scenarios drawn …
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