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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"toxic masculinity"”.
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Toxic Masculinity and Queerness in "Jane Eyre" and "Emma"
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The Danger Of ‘no’: Rejection Violence, Toxic Masculinity And Violence Against Women
… study illuminates the relationship between toxic masculinity and rejection violence, here defined as instances where men react violently toward women who reject their expressions of romantic or sexual interest. It begins with an analysis of the definition and construction of toxic …
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The Association Between Social Media, Toxic Masculinity, and Depression in Young Adult Males
… worldview. In recent years, social media use, toxic masculinity, and mental health have garnered significant attention in understanding the experiences of young adult males. The focus in this study was to examine the relationships between social media use, toxic masculinity, and depression in …
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Traditional Gender Roles: The Culture of Toxic Masculinity and the Effect on Male Rape Victims
… things made clear through indirect questions: intoxicated victims, male victims, and victims with a female perpetrator were seen more often to not experience sexual assault.</p>
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A Practice-as-Research Project utilizing Butler’s (1990) Feminist/ Post-structuralist theory of Gender Performativity, as well as Connells (2001) system of Hegemony, Complicity, and Subordination to Interrogate the Formation of Toxic Masculinities through Practice-as-Research and Live Art Methodologies
In the past twenty years or so, the concept of masculinity has come under increasing scrutiny. What used to constitute as socially acceptable behaviour for men to engage in, has increasingly become challenged by developments such as the MeToo movement. There are now stable grounds to argue that …
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Warlock & the Bully
… Bully navigates themes of homophobia, sexism, toxic masculinity and how society has changed and not changed since the late 1990’s with relation to the queer experience.
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Broken
… Internally, his narcissistic mind, masked by his toxic masculinity, bounces back and forth in time from his own familial dysfunction during his childhood, as well as family secrets that informs his worldview and fears of fatherhood. It isn’t until Mark meets the illusive artist and entrepreneur …
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Exploring effeminate gay men’s experiences of dating using gay dating and hook-up applications: an interpretative phenomenological analysis
… Applications (GDHAs) to be a breeding ground of toxic masculinity regulated by femmephobia in promoting gender-based oppression through the use of derogatory anti-effeminacy language that glorify masculine ideals. The research indicates that EGM are exposed to stressors at an individual and …
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Rabid and Other Stories
… wealth inequality, family relationships, and toxic masculinity through the lens of rural America. The characters in these thirteen stories navigate a patriarchal society, personal trauma, and economic instability. But more than any other theme, these stories explore a culture in which boys are …
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Into the Into of Earth Itself
… violation and the violation of women, as well as toxicity and toxic masculinity. In doing so, it draws from the histories of two Pennsylvania towns: Palmerton and Centralia. The former is a Superfund site ravaged by zinc pollution and currently under threat of hydraulic fracturing and pipeline …
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Only An Only Child: Stories
… collection of eleven short stories that examines masculinity in predominantly rural settings, emphasizing complex familial and romantic relationships. These stories respond to – and in certain respects, challenge – twentieth century narratives of masculinity by highly-acclaimed, male writers. They …
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Post-Cold War kids: changing representations of Russia and the Cold War in American children's film, 1992-2001
… the treatment of Cold War sentiments, such as toxic masculinity, and the recycling of tropes. It looks at the attempts, or failures, to move away from the negative messages about Russia that the American media used in the 1950s and through the 1980s, specifically in the context of children's …
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Tiny
… she can begin to rearrange the world: away from toxic masculinity and late-stage capitalism, and towards a benevolent kinship from which, as José Ésteban Muñoz wrote, we can "imagine a future."</p>
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Capitalizing on orthodox masculinity: the NFL, capitalism, and the pedagogy of becoming "controlled fury"
… as the site of lessons, player-to-player, on toxic masculinity. This dissertation problematizes that assertion by outlining a pedagogy largely scripted by the institutional powers of the NFL. There are more and more professional players questioning these lessons on how to be a football player, …
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Transformation and Restoration: Boyhood Masculinity in Michael Ende's The Neverending Story
… shell of his former self. The novel’s stance on masculinity is not entirely negative, however, as shown by its portrayal of Atreyu, a character whom Bastian reads about and who later becomes his best friend. Though the novel has generated international scholarship, critical literature available …
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Contemporary Perceptions of Femininity and Masculinity and How These Influence Female Athletes’ Actions and Behaviours
… looking at the notions of hegemony, hegemonic masculinity, and how political and civil society spread ideas to make them the norm (Bairner, 2007; Gramsci et al, 1998; Carrington and McDonald, 2009; Connell, 2002; Pringle, 2005). Toxic masculinity will also be explored, looking at how gender …
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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
… has been offered for instance of marginalized “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 …
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Masculinity Threat, Misogyny, and the Celebration of Violence in White Men
… aims to understand the relationship between masculinity and the endorsement of attitudes towards guns and violence and aggressive fantasies. I examine threatened masculinity and masculine gender role stress in addition to a newly developed measure, which assesses traits associated with …
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Hegemony, marginalisation, and hierarchies: Masculinities in contemporary Pakistani anglophone fiction
… these authors fashion the narrative of Pakistani masculinity and how these representations are shaped by wider societal, cultural, political, economic, and religious contexts. I draw on theories of performativity, intersectionality, and a range of scholarship about masculinities for my analysis. …
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(Hu)man enough: Design interventions for facilitating familial conversations about masculine gender expression
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-12-01