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Showing 1 to 20 of 88 for “"hegemonic masculinity"”.
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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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A Feminist Autoethnography: On Hegemonic Masculinity, Failure, and Subversive Play in League of Legends
… three distinct, but interconnected concepts: hegemonic masculinity, weaponized failure, and subversive play. In chapter one, I use Raewyn Connell’s theory of hegemonic masculinity to analyze League of Legends. I argue that gameplay elements such as champion selection, communication, and …
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Don Cherry's Final Rant: Illuminating Canadian nationalism, racial xenophobia, and hegemonic masculinity
… salience of white supremacy, xenophobia, hegemonic masculinity and colonialism in Canadian sports discourse? Drawing on the fields of feminist, anti-colonial and anti-racist studies, and literature in sport studies I conducted a critical discourse analysis of comments on selected national …
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The Effect of Hegemonic Masculinity in the Proportion of Women in Post-Communist Parliaments: A Case Study of Estonia and Poland
… of power by employing R.W. Connell's concept of hegemonic masculinity. Hegemonic masculinity explicates the cultural force that both dominates and subordinates femininity as well as other masculinities, thus resulting in low proportions of women in the national parliaments of the new countries …
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Identifying hegemonic masculinity in youth ice hockey programmes and investigating its effects on male players’ conduct on and off the ice
This research investigates how hegemonic masculinity is constructed, reinforced, and contested within youth ice hockey programmes, and how these gender norms influence male players' behaviour both on and off the ice. Drawing on in-depth qualitative interviews with adolescent athletes and a thematic …
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'They say you are not a man' : hegemonic masculinity and peer pressure amongst male adolescents in KwaZulu-Natal : implications for the HIV epidemic
This study explores the links between masculinity and the spread of HIV/AIDS by examining adolescents’ conceptions of manhood and the ways in which hegemonic masculinity manifests itself through peer pressure. The study employed qualitative methods, including in-depth interviews and focus group …
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Hegemoninis vyriškumas Lietuvos kariuomenėje /
… Raewyn Connell examined how certain norms of masculinity can become dominant in society and how they affect both men and women. Hegemonic masculinity is described as a specific form of masculinity that, in a particular historical and societal context, legitimizes unequal gender relations …
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Content Analysis of Sports Illustrated Articles Depicting Women's and Men's College Basketball
… study examines the portrayal of femininity and masculinity in sports magazine articles and explores how they may reinforce hegemonic masculinity. A content analysis of <em>Sports Illustrated</em> articles for a full season was performed. Three themes support theories of hegemonic masculinity: …
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The Masculine Mystique
… used by some homosexual men in order to achieve hegemonic masculinity based on performance of gender, age, race, and physical characteristics to conquer stereotypes of femininity. The gay community utilizes civil rights rhetoric in order to create a dialogue about equality; unfortunately a …
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Looking out for the ‘Aussie bloke’: gender, class and contextualizing a hegemony of working-class masculinities in Australia
… sets out to contextualize what is argued to be a hegemonic masculinity in a specific location, considering how the hegemony of certain representations of working-class masculinity is embedded in Australian culture in ways that legitimize certain gendered, classed, sexualized and ethnic positions …
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Jimmy Choos vs. Ariats: The presentation of masculinity in the online sex ads of men who have sex with men
The concept of masculinity should be understood in terms of its fluidity. One cannot say that there is a specific "white" masculinity or a specific "straight" masculinity; rather, masculinity is constantly changing. The inherent problem of defining masculinity has not deterred researches but has …
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Masculinities and the Paedophile: Discursive Strategies in Irish Newspapers.
… paedophile¿ reflect degrees of deviation from hegemonic masculinity in an always already `deviant¿ group of men. Inactive heterosexuality and homosexuality are not hegemonic masculine practices, and the masculinity of supposedly, celibate clergymen and homosexual men is discursively …
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Inside the Incelosphere: Tracing the Origins and Navigating the Contradictions
… The Manbox, the foundation for Western hegemonic masculinity after the Second World War, is the form of masculinity that was both critiqued and embraced by these men’s movements, and now by Incel. Central elements of Incel rhetoric, such as the de-politicizing of gender, the notion that …
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Unruly Acts: Queer Masculinities in Akram Zaatari’s Lens-Based Artworks
… discourses of violence, militarization and hegemonic masculinity in times of war and conflict. However, there has been little discussion and critical literature concerning non- heterosexual (or queer) representations of masculinities in the Arab world. Within such context, this dissertation …
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Lusty Rebels and Lonely Men: Interrogating 1950s Masculinity in the Films of Nicholas Ray
<p>This thesis explores depictions of masculinity in three 1950s films directed by Nicholas Ray. The male characters depicted in In a Lonely Place (1950), The Lusty Men (1952), and Rebel Without a Cause (1955) fall victim to the inherently performative nature of hegemonic masculinity. Each film …
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"It's not for fun anymore": perfomance of masculinity as a source of stress among professional soccer players in South Africa
… a family, as well as establishing a sense of hegemonic masculinity, as other options are often limited. The research aims of this study were to determine the stressors that South African professional soccer players face, with a focus on how masculinity shapes their experience of stress. The …
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Cosplay & the geek: the tension between creativity, inclusion, & gatekeeping in cosplay. What types of gatekeeping do cosplayers experience?
… began to emerge. This study investigates whether hegemonic masculinity has any influence on gatekeeping practices witnessed within the cosplay community, both online and in convention settings. Nine cosplayers from the Scottish cosplay scene took part in online semi-structured interviews which …
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Navigating The Manosphere: An Examination Of The Incel Movements’ Attitudes Of Sexual Aggression And Violence Against Women
… an integrated conceptual framework encompassing hegemonic masculinity, aggrieved entitlement, and patriarchy to better understand the prevalence and types of violence promoted by “incels”. Emerging themes revealed the pervasiveness of rape culture, pro-attitudes of violence against women, male …
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Medicalization as a Trojan Horse: Changes in Erectile Enhancement Advertising
… enhancement discourse as a body project for masculinity” dissects such advertising for overarching themes of violence, the subjugation of women, and the perpetuation of hegemonic masculinity (2008). This analysis was done in 2006, and evidence presented in this thesis suggests that the …
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