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Showing 1 to 20 of 1077 for “"Masculinity"”.
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Tudor women writers fashioning masculinity
… to the growing interest in early modern masculinity and its literary representations by introducing texts by women writers into dialogue with their male-authored counterparts. It argues for a more nuanced approach that recognises that the concepts of masculinity and femininity can only be …
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Masculinity In Comparative Black Literatures
… a transnational dialectic concerning their masculinity which involved the creation and criticism of several types of masculinity. In Chapters 1 and 2, I discuss the theoretical and the historical framework for this project. In Chapter 3, I discuss the first type of Black masculinity which …
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The fantasy of masculinity: a study of masculinity in strip clubs across three Midwestern metropolitan areas
… the relationship between sex work and masculinity. The project was guided by the following question: how do female strippers and male customers (co-)construct and negotiate masculinities in strip clubs across three Midwestern metropolitan areas? Based on this question and 13 months of …
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World War One trauma and masculinity
… investigates how psychoanalysis might explain masculinity, and how that could relate to the way a soldier may have experienced trauma in World War One. It looks at the letters and retrospective accounts soldiers wrote describing their feelings about fear, and it focusses on key moments that may …
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Masculinity and the whoremonger in mid-eighteenth century memoirs does whoremongering conform to contemporary ideals of masculinity?
… that women have commandeered 'gender', whereas masculinity was seen to exist in a 'cultural tradition where no such history was necessary' (1990. 22). Thought to dominate literary and cultural discussion, masculinity became less studied as critics sought to give voice to the female character and …
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Malory, Chivalric Medievalism, and New Imperialist Masculinity
… Imperialism. At the same time, a new model of masculinity emerged, one that bemoaned the “decadence” of the modernized, leisurely man and that celebrated the hypermasculine ideal of the “savage” and the “barbarian.” It turned to “primitive” models of masculinity which it located in non-Western …
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Fault lines : homophobic visual perceptions of masculinity
Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements of the Degree of Master of Applied Arts: Graphic Design, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2017.
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Men's definitions of masculinity and male power
Many authors have stated that traditional masculinity is about power: the power of men over women and the power of some men over other men (Kimmel & Kaufman, 1995). It has also been asserted that any analysis of masculinity must examine its power aspects. While the last 20 years have seen a growth …
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Exploring Masculinity For a Healthy Campus Culture
… up identifying with unhealthy perceptions of masculinity. Emotional intelligence, compassion and equity. These traits are the characteristics needed to sustain a safe and inclusive university campus.</p> <p>Subtle themes that did not suggest a separation of students and athletes. However there …
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Middle management and the enactment of masculinity
… the ways in which today's middle managers enact masculinity. Considering the gender-orientated 'ways of being' of a middle manager within a contemporary organisational environment, the research gives equal credence to space, language and the body - termed Locations of Enactment - at a time when …
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Mourning, Melancholia, and Masculinity in Medieval Literature
… expanding the current understanding of masculinity in the Middle Ages by investigating both the authenticity and affective nature of grief among aristocratic males. My focus is on the pattern of bereavement that surfaces across genres and that has most often been absorbed into studies of …
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Classical Masculinity in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra
<p>This thesis uses the formula of classical masculinity to examine Marc Antony’s value as a Roman man in Shakespeare’s <em>Antony and Cleopatra</em>. Examining Antony’s history as a Roman hero, I distinguish how his reputation is destroyed through his romantic involvement with Cleopatra. …
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Domesticity And Masculinity In 1950s British Painting
… gender roles, particularly in relation to masculinity, in the context of the family, sexuality and work. As a result, my thesis examines how four male artists operated in this context – as individuals negotiating particular identifications of masculine selfhood within their own private and …
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Rhetorical Construction of Masculinity Among Wounded Warriors
… duty. This praise complicates the conception of masculinity and ability among service-members. One reading of Judith Butler’s chapter “Bodies that Matter” aids understanding how the military forms bodies of service-members and how these bodies overcome injury. Simi Linton criticizes this rhetoric …
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Hegemonic masculinity and aggression in South Africa
This thesis explores 'Hegemonic Masculinity and Aggression in South Africa'. It incorporates three separate, but sequential research parts, each building on the findings of the previous part in order to realise general research aims.
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Interplay of masculinity and schooling in rural Zimbabwe
This thesis investigates the interplay of masculinity and schooling in postcolonial rural Zimbabwe, which has been affected by both local influences that have antecedents in colonization and by the external, current forces of globalization. By focusing on the construction of masculinities, this …
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Representations of Elite Masculinity in Medieval Castilian Narrative
… project to address long-held notions about elite masculinity in medieval Iberia. I contend that the study of masculinity must transcend our understanding of the male subject as a fixed point of reference; rather, he is to be understood as a mobile and multivalent construct in constant negotiation …
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A Distillation of Resilience: Female Masculinity in Form
This thesis reviews the ways in which female masculinity is defined, organized and ignored in dominant discourse. The objective is to demonstrate that female masculinity can be deemed a valuable category well beyond the borders of the gender binary. In this research, I pay careful attention to the …
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