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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"hegemonic masculinities"”.
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The New Man And The New Lad: Hegemonic Masculinities In Men's Lifestyle Magazines
… over a 12-month period in which four new masculinities: certitude, irony, new sexism and double voicing were critiqued. Elements of costume, nonverbal expressions and activity level in the photographs of men and women were examined. The findings indicate that Maxim and Stuff were deluged …
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This Town Ain’t Big Enough for the Two of Us: Western Genre Cinema Rhetoric of the Twentieth Century and the Modern Alt-Right Movement
… contemporary settings. Evaluating instances of hegemonic masculinity in John Farrow’s 1953 film Hondo and John Huston’s 1960 film The Unforgiven, alongside John Ford’s The Searchers, this work explores how filmic versions of masculinity have shaped characters to mimic and enforce social and …
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'Ourfoodstories@e-mail.com', an Auto/Biographical Study of Relationships with Food.
… whilst elite foodways were utilised as forms of hegemonic masculinities. Hence, in a challenge to the individualisation thesis my research demonstrates the complexity of food relationships beyond individual consumer choice. Throughout I adopt an auto/biographical approach that stresses the …
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White men speaking : an exploration of intersections, tensions and alternative ways of being white and a man in South Africa
… These ways of being, however, remain marginal. Hegemonic masculinities and whiteness continue to dominate South African society, hampering transformation. In order to counter these hegemonic ways of being, alternatives need to be actively engaged and emboldened. This can be achieved partly by …
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Seeking solidarities: a feminist analysis of the discourses on solidarity between activists interested in transforming masculinities
… concentrates on the work of transforming violent hegemonic masculinities and plans to develop programmes working with new partners whose work focuses on justice and the lives of transgendered, lesbian, gay, and intersex people and communities (‘LGBTI’). The research draws on qualitative data drawn …
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"If You Don't Take a Stand for Your Life, Who Will Help You?": A Qualitative Study of Men's Engagement with HIV/AIDS Care in Rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
… in the face of HIV. Our findings suggested that masculinities are complex, and are subject to changes and reprioritization in the context of HIV. Interventions focusing on reframing hegemonic masculinities and initiating treatment early may have success in bringing more men to the clinic.</p>
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Negotiating representation in contemporary China's media: masculinities, femininities and alternative identities
… between state-endorsed norms surrounding hegemonic masculinities and femininities and emerging non-normative expressions relating to non-traditional gender roles and alternative identities. Correspondingly, the thesis explores how feminism has historically developed in China, particularly …
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There’s a dad for that! : Naming men in work-life balance and entrepreneurial decision-making
… to entrepreneurial decision-making using men and masculinities literature as the lens of critical analysis. This research critically examines men’s subjective work-life balance experiences by evaluating their attempts to navigate between their fatherhood and entrepreneurial goals. There has been a …
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Masculinities in Immigrant Women's Writing in France and Canada
… This study focuses on the representation of masculinities in texts written by women who have immigrated into France or Canada from a range of geographical spaces. Centring on the premise that the migratory experience creates a form of tabula rasa which destabilizes identity, I chart the …
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En Busca Del Macho Y Otras Ficciones: Representaciones Contemporáneas De Masculinidades Latinoamericanas.
… cinematic representation mechanisms of different masculinities in works by creators from Cuba, Chile and Mexico. It focuses on the connection between modernity, masculinity, nationalism and power, rejecting “the masculine” as a universal category defined by the cohesion of discourse and action, …
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Symbolism or inclusion? A study of operational women, women leaders, gender targets and gender equality, 2000 to 2017 in the Fire & Rescue Service in England
… cultural normalities within the watch hegemonic masculinities are evidenced in this study which rely on relationship alliances between men for the dominance and subjugation of women, creating exclusions based on gender and maintaining gender stratifications. The findings establish that …
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Constructions of masculinities by men working in the Gender Justice space
… and work. This phenomenon of studying African masculinities from afar results in the generalization of findings on a population without the consideration of individual contexts, the individual and social contexts in which African masculinities originate and thrive. Contrary to the global …
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Constructions of masculinities by men working in the Gender Justice space
… and work. This phenomenon of studying African masculinities from afar results in the generalization of findings on a population without the consideration of individual contexts, the individual and social contexts in which African masculinities originate and thrive. Contrary to the global …
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From #MenAreTrash to #MensConference: Networked masculinities in South African Twitter
Despite the extensive literature on men and masculinities in South Africa, researchers have largely overlooked the role of digitally mediated networked publics in the coproduction and negotiation of contemporary masculinities. This dissertation attempts to fill the gap by engaging in an exploration …
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Exploring narratives of exclusion from school: how adolescent boys and educationalists negotiate schooling, family and gendered discourses
… and its domination over females and alternative masculinities. It shows how some boys through drawing on discourses of hegemonic masculinity and gender binary asymmetries construct themselves in ways that contribute towards school confrontation. The voices of practitioners show how they …
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The social construction of identities by British-Muslim pupils aged 14-15 years
… themselves as 'not western', and asserted hegemonic masculinities. These constructions are contrasted with previous literature, in which second generation Asians are conceptualised as choosing between 'British' and 'Asian' identities. The young men used discourses of 'culture' to position …
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Carving the Line: A Critical Examination of Women Athletes’ Experiences of Maltreatment in Freestyle Skiing
The purpose of this feminist narrative study was to understand the experiences of Canadian women athletes in freestyle skiing to uncover potential aspects of maltreatment in sport. Guided by Bronfenbrenner’s (1979, 1986, 1999) ecological systems theory, this research examined individual, social, …