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Masculinity and Male Identity

Author : Justin Healey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781925339994
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (399 download)

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Download or read book Masculinity and Male Identity written by Justin Healey and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The status quo of gender-based inequality and discrimination in our society perpetuates the notion that we live in "a man's world". Traditional masculine stereotypes persist in a culture which identifies men as self-reliant, emotionally reticent, focused on work over family, and oversexed. When these beliefs are taken to extreme levels by boys and men, they result in poor relationships, mental health problems and risky behaviours. Rethinking masculinity can help men and boys to move away from narrow masculine ideals and negative role models towards healthier, more diverse approaches to male identity.This book explores what it means to be a "a real man" in Australia, questioning the masculine stereotypes which sustain gender inequality. In addition, the book examines "toxic masculinity", traditional male gender roles, misogyny and attitudes which promote violence and disrespect towards women. It also addresses the impacts of traditional masculine norms on men's health and wellbeing. What does it mean to be a man in a changing world - is there really a crisis in masculinity? How can society - and boys and men as individuals - encourage positive, healthier masculinities?

Masculinity and Male Identity

Author : Justin Healey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781925339987
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (399 download)

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Download or read book Masculinity and Male Identity written by Justin Healey and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The status quo of gender-based inequality and discrimination in our society perpetuates the notion that we live in ¿a man¿s world¿. Traditional masculine stereotypes persist in a culture which identifies men as self-reliant, emotionally reticent, focused on work over family, and oversexed. When these beliefs are taken to extreme levels by boys and men, they result in poor relationships, mental health problems and risky behaviours. Rethinking masculinity can help men and boys to move away from narrow masculine ideals and negative role models towards healthier, more diverse approaches to male identity. Masculinity and Male Identity explores what it means to be a ¿a real man¿ in Australia, questioning the masculine stereotypes which sustain gender inequality. In addition, the book examines ¿toxic masculinity¿, traditional male gender roles, misogyny and attitudes which promote violence and disrespect towards women. It also addresses the impacts of traditional masculine norms on men¿s health and wellbeing. What does it mean to be a man in a changing world ¿ is there really a crisis in masculinity? How can society ¿ and boys and men as individuals ¿ encourage positive, healthier masculinities?

Masculine Identities

Author : Herbert Sussman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313391602
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Masculine Identities written by Herbert Sussman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-03-14 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an intriguing look at the long history of the changing definitions of what it means to "be a man," identifying both the continuity and disparity in these ideals and explaining the contemporary crisis of masculinity. In the classical Athens of Plato and Pericles, erotic relations between adolescents and adult men—what we now revile as pedophilia—was the marker of manliness; a clear example of how concepts of masculinity shift. Even within modern western society, there are conflicting ideals for men; they are expected to be both aggressive and unemotional in business, and sensitive and caring as a father and lover. Masculine Identities: The History and Meanings of Manliness provides a comprehensive consideration of what "being a man" has meant over time. A fascinating read for men and women alike, it examines masculine identities that emerged in the past and continue into the present, such as the warrior, the democratic man, the craftsman, the self-made man of business, as well as ethnic forms of manliness. The work concludes by examining the contemporary issues of male sexuality, same-sex identity, and the conflicts within men in the modern world.

Masculinities

Author : R. W. Connell
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 0745634265
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Masculinities written by R. W. Connell and published by Polity. This book was released on 2005 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an exciting new edition of R.W. Connell's ground-breaking text, which has become a classic work on the nature and construction of masculine identity. Connell argues that there is not one masculinity, but many different masculinities, each associated with different positions of power. In a world gender order that continues to privilege men over women, but also raises difficult issues for men and boys, his account is more pertinent than ever before. In a substantial new introduction and conclusion, Connell discusses the development of masculinity studies in the ten years since the book's initial publication. He explores global gender relations, new theories, and practical uses of mascunlinity research. Looking to the future, his new concluding chapter addresses the politics of masculinities, and the implications of masculinity research for understanding current world issues. Against the backdrop of an increasingly divided world, dominated by neo-conservative politics, Connell's account highlights a series of compelling questions about the future of human society. This second edition of Connell's classic book will be essential reading for students taking courses on masculinities and gender studies, and will be of interest to students and scholars across the humanities and social sciences.

Imagined Masculinities

Author : Mayy Ghaṣṣūb
Publisher : Saqi Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Imagined Masculinities written by Mayy Ghaṣṣūb and published by Saqi Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writings on gender in the Middle East have tended to focus overwhelmingly on the status of women, on the rise of Islamist politics and veiling, and on the social construction of female identity. In the process issues of male identity in a region which has seen enormous social transformations over the past thirty years have been somewhat neglected. This book looks at the process by which stereotypical male identities get constructed, reproduced and contested in different parts of the Middle East.

Masculinities in Contemporary American Culture

Author : Thomas Keith
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317595351
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Masculinities in Contemporary American Culture written by Thomas Keith and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masculinities in Contemporary American Culture offers readers a multidisciplinary, intersectional overview of masculinity studies that includes both theoretical and applied lenses. Keith combines current research with historical perspectives to demonstrate the contexts in which masculine identities have come evolved. With an emphasis on popular culture -- particularly film, TV, video games, and music -- this text invites students to examine their gendered sensibilities and discuss the ways in which different forms of media appeal to toxic masculinity.

Media and Male Identity

Author : J. Macnamara
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230625673
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Media and Male Identity written by J. Macnamara and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-08-11 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a landmark in-depth study of how mass media contributes to the making and remaking of male identity. It concludes that, unless addressed, the effects of negative discourse on the self-identity and self-esteem of men, are potentially devastating and that the longer-term and wider social implications will also be costly.

Unmasking the Masculine

Author : Alan R. Petersen
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9781446239780
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (397 download)

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Download or read book Unmasking the Masculine written by Alan R. Petersen and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1998-07-08 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postmodernism and poststructuralism have undermined the assumptions upon which established identities have been constructed, such as the concept of stable bodies and stable selves. Sex, gender, sexuality and race are no longer viewed as merely descriptive aspects of experience but also as constructions of identity. Drawing on current debates in postmodern feminism, feminist philosophy of science, anti-racist/postcolonial studies and queer theory, this book considers the way in which discourse fabricates the ideal' male body, sexual identity and sexual politics. Alan Petersen explores the possibilities of developing new models of identity not so closely linked to the sex/gender system and examines the prospects of creating a new or reconceptualized identity politics.

Staging Masculinity

Author : Carla J. McDonough
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786427361
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Staging Masculinity written by Carla J. McDonough and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2006-07-05 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The men in plays such as Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman or Sam Shephard's True West are often presented as universal; little attention is given to the gender dynamics involved in the characters. This work looks at how contemporary playwrights, including Miller, Shepard, Eugene O'Neill, David Mamet, and August Wilson, stage masculinity in their works. It becomes apparent that male playwrights return often to the issues of troubled manhood, usually masked in other issues such as war, business or family. The plays indicate both the attractiveness of the model of traditional masculinity and the illusive nature of this image, which all too often fractures and fails the characters who pursue it. O'Neill's play The Hairy Ape and the character Yank receive much attention.

Gender and Emotion

Author : Agneta Fischer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521639866
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book Gender and Emotion written by Agneta Fischer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-03-09 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating exploration of the relationship between gender and emotion.

Gender, Sexuality, and the Cultural Politics of Men's Identity

Author : Robert Mundy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781032088594
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (885 download)

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Download or read book Gender, Sexuality, and the Cultural Politics of Men's Identity written by Robert Mundy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-02 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers mass media and contemporary cultural trends to examine masculinity at a point of unprecedented change. While sexual and gender politics have always been fraught, the long unexamined privilege associated with masculinity is now subject to intense scrutiny marked by a host of complex factors. As past markers of masculine norms have been challenged on cultural, social, and economic fronts, men occupy public space ever aware that how they interact with others is questioned and questionable. What does manhood mean? Who is included in its dominant formations? What performances signify membership in the club? How are men reading this contemporary moment and to what extent does cultural literacy inform, maintain, or challenge normative male identities and subsequent performances? This work examines such questions through language and symbolic meaning, and challenges its readers to critically examine what men know and how they understand and embody gender and sexuality in a post-millennial society. Gender, Sexuality, and the Cultural Politics of Men's Identity in the New Millennium: Literacies of Masculinity crosses academic disciplines and will be highly relevant in composition/rhetoric, gender studies, masculinity studies, and cross-curricular courses that take up popular/contemporary culture as well as gender, sexuality, race, and class. It has been designed with both undergraduate and graduate students in mind.

Masculinity in Crisis

Author : R. Horrocks
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230372805
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Masculinity in Crisis written by R. Horrocks and published by Springer. This book was released on 1994-08-30 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that masculine identity is in deep crisis in Western culture - the old forms are disintegrating, while men struggle to establish new relations with women and with each other. This book offers a fresh look at gender, particularly masculinity, by using material from the author's work as a psychotherapist. The book also considers the contrubtions made by feminism, sociology and anthropology to the study of gender, and suggests that it must be studied from an interdisciplinary standpoint. Masculity is seen to have economic, political and psychological roots, but the concrete development of gender must be traced in the relations of the male infant with his parents. Here the young boy has to separate from his mother, and his own proto-feminine identity, and identify with his father - but in Western culture fathering is often deficient. Male identity is shown to be fractured, fragile and truncated. Men are trained to be rational and violent, and to shut out whole areas of existence and feeling. Many stereotypes imprison men - particularly machismo, which is shown to be deeply masochistic and self-destructive.

The Other Half of Gender

Author : Ian Bannon
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 0821365061
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book The Other Half of Gender written by Ian Bannon and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an attempt to bring the gender and development debate full circle-from a much-needed focus on empowering women to a more comprehensive gender framework that considers gender as a system that affects both women and men. The chapters in this book explore definitions of masculinity and male identities in a variety of social contexts, drawing from experiences in Latin America, the Caribbean and sub-Saharan Africa. It draws on a slowly emerging realization that attaining the vision of gender equality will be difficult, if not impossible, without changing the ways in which masculinities are defined and acted upon. Although changing male gender norms will be a difficult and slow process, we must begin by understanding how versions of masculinities are defined and acted upon.

Gender Threat

Author : Yasemin Cassino
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503629902
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Gender Threat written by Yasemin Cassino and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against all evidence to the contrary, American men have come to believe that the world is tilted – economically, socially, politically – against them. A majority of men across the political spectrum feel that they face some amount of discrimination because of their sex. The authors of Gender Threat look at what reasoning lies behind their belief and how they respond to it. Many feel that there is a limited set of socially accepted ways for men to express their gender identity, and when circumstances make it difficult or impossible for them to do so, they search for another outlet to compensate. Sometimes these behaviors are socially positive, such as placing a greater emphasis on fatherhood, but other times they can be maladaptive, as in the case of increased sexual harassment at work. These trends have emerged, notably, since the Great Recession of 2008-09. Drawing on multiple data sources, the authors find that the specter of threats to their gender identity has important implications for men's behavior. Importantly, younger men are more likely to turn to nontraditional compensatory behaviors, such as increased involvement in cooking, parenting, and community leadership, suggesting that the conception of masculinity is likely to change in the decades to come.

Theorizing Masculinities

Author : Harry Brod
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 0803949049
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Theorizing Masculinities written by Harry Brod and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1994-06-13 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new field of inquiry and growing interdisciplinary area, men's studies, is just now beginning to develop its own distinctive methodologies and perspectives as demonstrated in the pages of Theorizing Masculinities. This first major compilation of new theoretical work on men begins by presenting ideas borrowed from the disciplines that have fostered the study of masculinities: sociology, psychoanalysis, ethnography, and inequality. The following chapters explore many issues central to the study of men such as power, ethnicity, feminism, and homophobia. The contributors also provide theoretical explanations of some of the institutions most closely identified with men, such as the military, sports, and the men's movement. The contributors to this volume come from disciplines as diverse as sociology, political science, industrial relations, philosophy, education, anthropology, gender studies, and literature. Together, they make this benchmark volume the guiding set of theories on masculinities. Theorizing Masculinities is a comprehensive volume that will appeal to a wide range of students and scholars, especially those interested in gender, sociology, social theory, family studies, counseling, and psychology.

Messages Men Hear

Author : Ian M. Harris
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 113574811X
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book Messages Men Hear written by Ian M. Harris and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is based on over 10 years research with 500 men from different classes, backgrounds, races and ethnic groups. It constructs a theory of masculinity by exploring masculine expectancies, how men form their gender identities and how those identities influence their behaviour.

Gender, Sexuality, and the Cultural Politics of Men’s Identity

Author : Robert Mundy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429535724
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Gender, Sexuality, and the Cultural Politics of Men’s Identity written by Robert Mundy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-02 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers mass media and contemporary cultural trends to examine masculinity at a point of unprecedented change. While sexual and gender politics have always been fraught, the long unexamined privilege associated with masculinity is now subject to intense scrutiny marked by a host of complex factors. As past markers of masculine norms have been challenged on cultural, social, and economic fronts, men occupy public space ever aware that how they interact with others is questioned and questionable. What does manhood mean? Who is included in its dominant formations? What performances signify membership in the club? How are men reading this contemporary moment and to what extent does cultural literacy inform, maintain, or challenge normative male identities and subsequent performances? This work examines such questions through language and symbolic meaning, and challenges its readers to critically examine what men know and how they understand and embody gender and sexuality in a post-millennial society. Gender, Sexuality, and the Cultural Politics of Men’s Identity in the New Millennium: Literacies of Masculinity crosses academic disciplines and will be highly relevant in composition/rhetoric, gender studies, masculinity studies, and cross-curricular courses that take up popular/contemporary culture as well as gender, sexuality, race, and class. It has been designed with both undergraduate and graduate students in mind.