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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"hypermasculinity"”.
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What It Means to Be a Man: Masculinity, Sexual Risk-Taking, and HIV Testing Behavior among Heterosexual African American Males
… Eng, & Margolis, 2006). One form of masculinity, hypermasculinity is related to sexual risk-taking behaviors, especially among young African American males. The purpose of this dissertation was to investigate the relationship between hypermasculinity and sexual risk-taking, and HIV testing among …
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Masculinity and shell shock in the poetry of Siegfried Sassoon: soldier of trauma and poet of abjection
… poetry, critiques the idea of a heteronormative, hypermasculinity that was propagated throughout the period of WW1. The pressure to perform in the hypermasculine area of war resulted in emotional conflict for Sassoon subliminally explored through his writing, which allowed him to express a …
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Effects Of Gender Role Violations On Hypermasculine Men's Aggression In A Laboratory Paradigm
… studies that examined the relationship between hypermasculinity and gender role violations without the use of sexual orientations as the violations and no laboratory studies directly comparing a hypermasculine man's aggression towards a gender role violating man and a gender role violating …
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"No topic is taboo": PETA's post-feminist pivot to human-centric imagery
… masculine power through the reproduction of hypermasculinity, heteronormativity, and whiteness. The BWVAKTBOOM campaign reproduces hurtful, hegemonic images to reassert (vegan) masculine identity.
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”I'm not bad, but they don't see it” : Perceptions on masculinity and gender equality, and challenges of marginalized urban adolescent men in Kenya
… “masculinity-threatened” men resorting to “hypermasculinity” to assert themselves as masculine in the face of poverty that precludes their role as the breadwinner – which is the cornerstone for masculine identity in Kenya as well as globally. In addition to that hypermascular behavior is …
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The trajectory of male homosexuality in Nazism
… promote homosexuality, early Nazism valued hypermasculinity and homosocial relationships. Right-wing veterans of the First World War were attracted to the Nazi paramilitary unit, Sturmabteilung (SA), led by Ernst Röhm, a well-known gay man. The SA leaders promoted close male bonds among the …
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Schema theory, attitudes and text comprehension
… of responsibility, and/or higher levels of hypermasculinity attitude performed less accurately than students with opposite characteristics. Also, subjects whose performance was not tested for two weeks were significantly less accurate than subjects tested immediately. Thus, an individual, …
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Stay Brave My Hercules
… Brave My Hercules”, I explore the themes of hypermasculinity, loneliness, and insecurity, in particular the points in which they intersect. These stories are narrated by different male characters between the ages of seventeen and twenty-seven and who all struggle in different ways to conform …
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The Afro-Pampas: Black consciousness, cultural activism and queer subjectivity at Brazil's southern frontier
… work in tandem to subvert the racialized hypermasculinity of the transnational Pampean frontiers specifically, and the borderlands of the Americas more broadly.
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Security and emancipation as resistance: how contesting and navigating narratives of women in Chechnya impacts NGO actions
… Chechen Republic. Kadyrov utilised performative hypermasculinity in his narrative of the traditional Chechen woman to help build legitimacy and nationalism after the Second Chechen War. When this narrative is contested by NGOs in the public and global spheres, they are then perceived as a threat …
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How The Expectations of Masculinity Affect Young Men In Sport And Physical Activity
… covered such as; hegemonic masculinity theory, hypermasculinity, tortured masculinity and inclusive masculinity theory. Bourdieusian theory is also introduced with literature around the four forms of capital and concepts such as habitus, doxa and field. By interviewing 22 men aged between 18-25 …
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Performing Masculinities: Stereotypes and representations of the male body in contemporary South Africa
… male hierarchies, while the enactment of hypermasculinity took its toll necessitating mediation through traditional ritual. I recount how, with the need for healing now evoked in my body, and with an obsession in the shape of water, (Metsi) in the second research project I allowed the …
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“Automatic obedience, synthetic schizophrenia, mass-produced to order. That is the Russian dream, and America is not far behind” : Fascism as a Reaction to a Crisis of Masculinity in William S. Burroughs’s Queer
… society. As a result, Lee adopts a posture of hypermasculinity that includes the fantasy of dominating the other as a means to reassure himself, which in turn makes it impossible for him to engage in meaningful relationships with others. He is trapped in a vicious cycle of reaching out to …
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Maricas de etiqueta: identidad gay en el cine reciente de España y el Cono Sur
… rather than propose the reappropriation of hypermasculinity; finally, they favor more flexible social networks for gay men. In conclusion, I demonstrate how any purported link between the advancement of LGBTQ rights in these countries and the hypervisibility of gay men in their national …
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Do Black men really love Black women? : A qualitative study on how mass media shape Black men's perception of Black women for long-term romantic relationship -- or not
… the façade of strength and media depictions of hypermasculinity as propagated in the media and internalized by Black women contributes to a level of tension between Black men and women that oftentimes pushes him away.
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Negotiating Boyhood and Victimisation in the Adolescent Male Rape Novel
… I argue that the rapes are expressions of hypermasculinity, seeking to emphasise a power hierarchy and aiming to exclude the target from the team, therefore constituting bullying rather than hazing. Further, the bystander perspectives foreshadow the raped boys’ (attempted) *bullycides*, yet …
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Youth and intersectional belonging in drum & bugle corps subculture
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-15 without embargo terms
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The Laughter Behind: Curriculum of Place, the Hypermasculine Imperative, and the Critical Education of a Southern Cop
<p>This study examines the thoughts and ideologies that actuate the daily behaviors of Southern rural police officers as they pertain to practices consonant with social justice and equity. The research focus is the author’s own experience as a 21-year Southern rural police officer who ultimately …