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Showing 1 to 20 of 784 for “"masculine"”.
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The Masculine Ideal: Achieving Masculine Legitimacy in Contemporary Japan
… of this thesis to explore how men can achieve masculine legitimacy, or success, in contemporary Japan. Since the economic rise of the postwar period, the salaryman has been deemed the epitome of masculine success in Japan, but recent studies have highlighted the challenges to achieving this …
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The Masculine Mystique
… the burden on the gay community to appear masculine and physically attractive in order to feel accepted. This research found through the reframing of 349 profiles posted on DouchebagsofGrindr.com that profile photos, profile text, and identifying information of Grindr users are factors that …
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Masculine Identities Among Asian American Men: Negotiating Varying Masculine Ideals for the Self and Others
<p>The study examined the implications of varying masculine identities for Asian American men of East Asian descent. The study tested the hypotheses that compared to White men, Asian American men would endorse lower levels of Western hegemonic masculine ideals, see themselves as less masculine in …
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Masculine stereotypes of lesbians and masculine-looking women : potential advantages of assumed agentic qualities in employment
… agentic stereotypes attributed to lesbian and masculine appearing women would provide an advantage in obtaining employment. Previous research has shown that lesbian women are favored over heterosexual women, and masculine appearing individuals are favored over feminine appearing individuals for …
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Masculine Overcompensation: Rural Men in Montana
… overcompensate when masculinity is threatened. Masculine overcompensation asserts that males react to masculine insecurity with exaggerated demonstrations of masculinity. The predictions for this study follow the argument that rural males, because masculinity is a more important feature of their …
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Masculine Overcompensation: Rural Men in Montana
… overcompensate when masculinity is threatened. Masculine overcompensation asserts that males react to masculine insecurity with exaggerated demonstrations of masculinity. The predictions for this study follow the argument that rural males, because masculinity is a more important feature of their …
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Cardiovascular reactivity to stress in men: effects of masculine gender role stress appraisal and masculine performance challenge
… disease. The present study examines the role of masculine cognitive appraisal of stress as a mediator of cardiovascular reactivity in men. The reactivity of men who differed on a measure of cognitive appraisal of masculine gender role stress (MGRS) was compared using the cold-pressor test under …
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Masculine Fantasies In Selected Novels by Charles Dickens
… in order to clarify both the nature of masculine anxieties (loss of autonomy, feminization, surveillance, and so on) and the existence of fantasies that allow vicarious escapes from such anxieties. The excesses of Dickens's novels, which reside in large part in such subversive male …
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Unruly Matter: Masculine Consumption in English Restoration Literature
<p>Unruly Matter: Masculine Consumption in English Restoration Literature</p> <p>Over the past several decades, material culture scholars working within the “Long 18<sup>th</sup> Century” have identified how the figure of the woman consumer became an ideological nodal point that registered new …
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Figuring Disability and Illness: D. H. Lawrence’s Masculine Somatology
… wounds excavated to reveal Lawrence’s masculine somatotypes. This investigation reveals the significance of visible and invisible disabilities in Lawrence’s Tantric body schema while the hostile narration of Clifford acts as a point of ‘aesthetic nervousness’ within the novel. Finally, …
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Detecting Masculinity: The Positive Masculine Qualities of Fictional Detectives.
Detective fiction highlights those qualities of masculinity that are most valuable to a contemporary culture. In mysteries a cultural context is more thoroughly revealed than in any other genre of literature. Through the crimes, an audience can understand not only the fears of a particular society …
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Power, money, and sex(uality): the Black Masculine Paradigm
This study develops the Black Masculine Paradigm (BMP), a construct used to trace historically specific components that inform black masculinity and explores the physical and psychological defensive strategies employed by black men in Richard Wright's Black Boy, Claude Brown's Manchild in the …
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An Analysis of Masculine Socialization and Male Sexual Anxiety
… investigate the negative impact of essentialist masculine gender socialization on men's lives. In particular, I use personal recollective accounts both from my early childhood socialization-in the traditional Greek-Cypriot culture of the 1970s and 80s-and from my own introspections and analytical …
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Fixing "the man problem": masculine discourse in Christian men's ministries
… ails us." This study addresses the discourse of masculine ideology within evangelical Christian men's ministries, particularly those who have participated in Morley's Man in the Mirror organization. The research analyzes two types of data. The first part is a content analysis of Patrick Morley's …
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Effects of gender role on the judgment of masculine signs
… concerns how people perceive, process, and judge masculine signs. This study seeks to explain gender role orientation’s influences on the development of schemata for masculinity as evidenced by differences in assessments of differing masculine images. Participants (N = 747) rated their own sex …
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Men in Nursing: Masculine Gender Role Stress and Job Satisfaction
… associated with that turnover, are of concern. Masculine Gender Role Stress (MGRS) may play a part in men's responses to nursing culture and settings, and may influence job satisfaction in a manner that affects behavior and tenure. This descriptive correlational study examined relationships …
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Unmaking him : Lee Daniels' Empire and the potential black masculine
This paper uses Lee Daniels’ hit show Empire to examine the relationship between two fictional television brothers- Jamal and Hakeem Lyon. In examining this relationship, I employ black feminist and black queer theory to interrogate the ways in which Lee Daniels’ particular representation lends to …
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The birth of the machista : changing conceptions of the Nicaraguan masculine
This thesis examines the concept of masculinity as it concerns a group of male community leaders from impoverished neighbourhoods of Léon, Nicaragua. In collaboration with the non-governmental organization, Centro de Información y Servicios de Asesoría en Salud (CISAS) and utilizing person-centred …
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