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Freedman, Jacqueline Hope. "Disidentified Masculinities." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/347.
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My capstone project is a multimedia audio and photography project that creates a conversation about the Millennial Generation’s views of individual identity and masculinity, with the hopes of deconstructing the socially constructed and exclusive notions of masculinity by defining a generation’s common sense.
My piece is inspired by the portraiture of Chad States in Masculinities (2011) as well as Loren Cameron’s work in Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits (1996). The theoretical basis of my project relies heavily on Antonio Gramsci’s concept of common sense as well as José Esteban Muñoz’s disidentification. Common sense refers to an instinctual, uncritical and largely unconscious way of perceiving and understanding. It is a collective noun, like religion yet it is not something rigid and immobile, but is continually transforming itself, enriching itself with scientific ideas and with philosophical opinions, which have entered ordinary life. Furthermore, disidentification is Muñoz’s third mode of dealing with a dominant ideology. This aspect neither opts to assimilate within such a structure nor strictly opposes it; rather, disidentification is a strategy that works on and against dominant ideology and hegemony. Disidentification works as the negotiating mechanism for common sense because it is against assimilation to mainstream masculinity as well as asks individuals to be their personal identity in spite of what hegemonic masculinity dictates.
Thus, I hope to instill a new understanding of the common sense of the Millennial Generation, and how the notion of masculinity is personal, fluid, and disidentified.
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Abrams, Jake. "Uncertain masculinities." Thesis, University of East London, 2017. http://roar.uel.ac.uk/6360/.
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Mthembu, Jacqueline Carol. "Negotiating masculinities : studying risk behaviours associated with performances of 'coloured' masculinities." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15607.
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The overarching aim of this thesis was to study masculinity roles and associated risk behaviours amongst a group of marginalised 'coloured' men from two deprived communities, one urban and one rural, in Cape Town, South Africa. To achieve this aim, the research examined two broad questions. The first question asked: What levels of conformity to masculinity norms are expressed amongst a sample of 'coloured' men from two communities in Cape Town and how are these are related to their reported levels of gender role stress and risk -taking behaviours? The second question the study aimed to address asked: In what contexts are marginalised 'coloured' masculinities performed and how do these shape 'coloured' men's subjective ideas about 'what it means to be a man'. The study employed a mixed method approach involving a questionnaire design as well as focus groups to address the research questions. Three hundred men completed questionnaires consisting of demographic and risk evaluation questions and three measures of male attitudes, namely the Male Attitude Norms Inventory-III (MANI-III), the Masculine Gender Role Stress (MGRS) scale and the Maudsley Violence Questionnaire (MVQ). In addition, fourteen focus group discussions were facilitated with 108 of the 300 men to elicit deeper meanings of marginalised 'coloured' masculinities and men's understandings of masculine roles. The quantitative findings of the study revealed that most men reported mild endorsement of traditional masculine norms. At a univariate level of analysis, men who endorsed masculinity norms were more likely to report an education level of less than grade 9; more likely to report stress associated with gender role performance failure, machismo, acceptance of violence and hostile sexism. Hostile sexism, however, emerged as the only predictor associated with conformity to masculinity. A thematic analysis of the qualitative data revealed that performances of masculinity included displays of hostile sexism, the use of violence and risk-taking behaviour. Further findings show that marginalised 'coloured' men's performances of masculinities were shaped by their contexts which included high levels of poverty and deprivation, prevalent violence against women and high levels of risky alcohol consumption. The key contributions of this study includes the fact that this study discusses 'coloured' masculinity in terms of how these men attempt to accomplish forms of masculinities in a marginalised context. This dissertation also expands the research knowledge on marginalised masculinities by studying a group of men that have not received much attention previously. The thesis also makes a relevant contribution to existing knowledge as it presents a range of findings that add to research on masculinities, risk-taking behaviour, race, gender-based violence and marginalisation. The study showed the continued relevance of the Sex Role Paradigm to understanding masculinity roles and norms. Furthermore, the study contributes to the existing knowledge on masculinity measurements as it used the first local masculinity scale and provided a revised version of this psychometrically sound masculinity tool for use amongst marginalised men.
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River, Jo Terry. "Masculinities and men's suicide." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/12070.
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This study explores gender-relations in the lives of Australian men who have engaged in nonfatal suicide. With a focus on the relationship between masculinity and the practice of suicide, the study examines the connection between men’s suicide trajectories and their emotional, work, and help seeking practices. There is a striking gender difference in suicide rates worldwide with men accounting for approximately 80% of all deaths. In contradictory public discussions, men are presented sometimes as victims of a masculinity crisis and sometimes as victors in suicide, i.e. superior practitioners of suicide compared to women. A more substantive theory of men’s suicide, which moves beyond homogenizing accounts, is now required. Seventeen life-history interviews were undertaken with men who engaged in nonfatal suicide. Individual case-studies were written for each man. Four of these case-studies are presented in the thesis. The thesis then examines major analytic themes, on the basis of the full set of case studies. It reflects on; the multiple ways that suicide is practised in reference to masculinity; patterns of intent in nonfatal suicide; the construction of masculinity through the gender division of labour; the gendering of emotion, and emotional practice and finally, different patterns of help seeking in relation to health service frameworks. The findings challenge homogenising and crisis views of men’s suicide. They capture issues of agency, plurality of practice and the complex intersection between gender and other social structures that constitute a hierarchy of masculinities. Whether men pursued a hegemonic pattern of masculinity, remained ambivalent or resisted hegemony, their projects remained vulnerable to work, relationship and emotional issues. In many cases, suicidal action provided a way out of distress and, paradoxically, an alternative practice for constructing masculinity, where the body was both the vehicle and object of violence.
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Zhang, Yumin. "Masculinities in Transcultural Spaces." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/18977.
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Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Interpretation vier ausgewählter Filme des Filmemachers Ang Lee – Pushing Hands, The Wedding Banquet, Brokeback Mountain und Hulk, die in den Jahren 1992 bis 2005 entstanden. Sie erforscht die unterschiedliche Inszenierung von Konzepten der Männlichkeit im chinesischen und US-amerikanischen Kontext, sowie den Männlichkeitsdiskurs in Räumen des kulturellen Üergangs.
Die Untersuchung Lees männlicher Figuren und Männlichkeitskonzepte macht sich sowohl die chinesische als auch die westliche erkenntnistheoretische Perspektive zu eigen, dabei ist Untersuchung sowohl konzeptionell als auch analytisch angelegt. Auf der konzeptionellen Ebene soll sie zeigen, wie sich die Konstruktion von Männlichkeitskonzepten unter der Einbeziehung nicht nur der westlichen konzeptionellen Argumentation von transkulturellen Räumen (Transdifferenz), sondern auch von andersartigen erkenntnistheoretischen Perspektiven, hier der chinesischen, besser erklären lässt. Auf der analytischen Ebene werden in der Untersuchung der Inszenierung männlicher Figuren audio-visuelle Textanalysen benutzt.
Die Analyse hat deutlich die Komplexität und Vielfältigkeit der Aushandlung von Männlichkeitskonzepten in transkulturellen Räumen gezeigt, wobei die Rekonstruktion und die Neuverhandlung von Männlichkeit sowohl emanzipatorisch als auch repressiv von statten gehen kann. Männliche Protagonisten bei Lee finden drei unterschiedliche Wege, ihre männliche Identität zu konstruieren. Als erste Lösung unterdrücken sie den transdifferenten Aspekt und wählen die klare Zugehörigkeit zu einer der Kulturen, die dann als Ursprung für die Restauration der Männlichkeit dient. Die zweite Lösung ist das Annehmen der Transdifferenz um eine mehrdeutige maskuline Identität im transkulturellen Raum aufzubauen. Als letzte Lösung gelingt es einen männlichen Figuren, kulturelle Grenzen zu überschreiten und eine transkulturelle Männlichkeit zu manifestieren.This dissertation consists of readings of four selected films by Ang Lee — Pushing Hands, The Wedding Banquet, Brokeback Mountain and Hulk, ranging over a decade from 1992 to 2005. It explores Lee’s representation of diverse Chinese and American masculinities, discussing negotiations of masculinities in transcultural spaces. My exploration of Lee’s representation of men and masculinities is equipped with double epistemological perspectives, namely, both Chinese and Western. My project is both conceptual and analytical. On the conceptual level, I intend to demonstrate how constructions of masculinities can be more productively explained by employing not only the Western conceptual arguments of transcultural space (transdifference) but also by reading this space from different epistemological perspectives, namely the Western and Chinese. On the analytical level, I employ audio and visual textual analysis in my examination of Lee’s portrayal of male figures. My analysis has clearly demonstrated the complexity and multiplicity in negotiations of masculinities in transcultural spaces, which can be both emancipatory and repressive in re-constructing and re-negotiating one’s masculinity. Male subjectivities in Lee’s films turn to three different ways to construct or reconstruct their manliness. First, men suppress trandifference and opt for a clear belonging to a certain culture, in particular, the culture of origin for masculinity restoration. Second, men embrace transidifference to construct an ambiguous masculine identity in transcultural spaces. Third, men might transcend cultural boundaries to demonstrate transcultural manhood.
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Haque, Md Mozammel. "Men, masculinities and social change : exploring Khmer masculinities and their implications for domestic violence." Thesis, Faculty of Education and Social Work, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/17556.
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au, W. Martino@murdoch edu, and Wayne Martino. "Interrogating masculinities : regimes of practice." Murdoch University, 1998. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20070831.135338.
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This thesis draws on post-Foucauldian theories of governmental power and technologies
of the self to critically examine the deployment of post-structuralist, psychoanalytic,
sociological and cultural studies' paradigms for theorising and researching masculinities.
It is argued that a particular dialectical mode of rationality and a project of cultural
completion inform these approaches which are based on a requirement to reconcile
oppositional categories such as freedom and determination, subject-determining state and
self-determining subject, social structure and social actor. The limits are outlined of
theorising subjectivity in terms of the restoration of consciousness to the individual and as
the means by which 'culture' is mediated via repressive andlor ideological mechanisms.
An alternative theorisation of subjectivity, conceiving of masculinities as enacted within
regimes of historically contingent nomalising practices, is applied to an investigation of
how specific groups of boys learn to relate as gendered subjects in a particular school.
Surveys, observational methods and semi-structured interviews are used to trace the
specific effects of practices implicated in the formation of masculinities for the boys.
Attention is also drawn to the relationship of specific models of masculinity to the boys'
literacy practices.
On the basis of this research, important implications for practice at policy and pedagogical
levels are identified.
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Owen, Craig. "Dancing gender : exploring embodied masculinities." Thesis, University of Bath, 2014. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.636536.
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Within popular culture we have recently witnessed a proliferation of male dancers. This has been spear-headed by the success of the BBC television program Strictly Come Dancing. The current cultural fascination with dance provides a stark contrast to traditional discourses in England that position dance as a female activity, with men’s participation frequently associated with homophobic stigma. We therefore have a context in which multiple and contradictory discourses on masculinity are available for men to make sense of themselves. This thesis explores how young men negotiate these discourses when learning to dance. The research is based upon an ethnographic study of capoeira and Latin and ballroom dance classes in South West England. The core methods included 1) four years of embodied fieldwork in the form of the researcher learning to dance, 2) writing field-notes and collecting multi-media artefacts, 3) interviewing dancers, and 4) photographing dancers in action. The researcher also drew upon a diverse range of subsidiary methods that included producing a dance wall of collected images and artefacts, cataloguing relevant dance websites and YouTube videos, and extensive use of Facebook for publishing photographs, sharing resources and negotiating ongoing informed consent. The findings of this PhD identify how learning capoeira and Latin and ballroom dance produces embodied, visual and discursive transitions in male dancers’ performances of masculine identities. The analysis focuses on three sets of practices that work to support or problematise the transitions in masculine identities in dance classes. These practices include 1) dancing with women in ballroom dancing, 2) performing awesome moves in capoeira, and 3) men’s experiences of stiff hips. In examining transitions across these three processes the thesis documents the changing possibilities and constraints on embodied masculinities in dance.
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Yates, Candida. "Jealous masculinities and contemporary cinema." Thesis, University of East London, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.532565.
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It is widely argued that in contemporary Western societies, masculinity is in crisis. Whether or not this alleged `crisis' represents a shift towards more positive and reflexive masculinities has been the focus of much debate. Such debate provides the context for this thesis. The thesis offers new insights into the psychic and cultural shaping of masculinities by examining the possibilities for `good-enough' masculinities within the shifting conditions of Western postmodern culture. It uses psychoanalytic, cultural and social theories to explore contemporary masculinities through a study of male jealousies and their representation in popular cinema. Jealousy provides a useful case study to explore the alleged crisis of contemporary masculinities because it indicates a capacity to tolerate the complex emotions of wounded narcissism and feelings of loss that are said to characterise this crisis. The thesis argues that jealousy occupies a central place in the psychosocial shaping of Western masculinities. Historically, it has played a key role in guarding and defining men's social and emotional boundaries. However, the cultural rules of entitlement and possession are in flux, and the cultural codes surrounding male jealousies are becoming less clear. The thesis discussion develops through the analysis of representations of male jealousies in recent popular films, where the possessive gaze of the hero and the emotional and moral outcomes of jealous triangles are often ambiguous. Such ambiguity resonates with the popular cultural trope of masculinity in crisis and the alleged feminisation of masculinity within popular culture more generally. These themes are explored in depth through case studies of four films, released in the 1990s, which examine their cultural reception in the press and the possibilities for reflexive, `good-enough' formations of masculinity in popular cinema. The thesis aims to contribute to the study of cinema and the emotions by developing an interdisciplinary mode of analysis, which captures the psychic, social and emotional nuances of the film text, and the cultural context of its reception.
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Barker, Richard W. "Lone fathers, parenting and masculinities." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/19904.
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This thesis examines lone fathering, parenting and masculinities drawing on data from a study of 35 lone parent fathers who had responsibility for dependent children in households where there was no woman resident. The sample was drawn from child benefit records, and thus is a more representative sample than those used in previous similar studies. Quantitative and qualitative data was obtained via an in-depth interview with the sample members, 19 divorcees and 16 widowers, who were all resident in the North of England. The research explores the impacts of interactionist and structural factors on the experiences of the lone fathers studied. The study has indicated that there was no single pattern of lone fatherhood, it is suggested that differences can be best understood as the expression of different forms of masculinities operating within the different patriarchal structures of society. This research argues for a six fold division of the social construction of patriarchy into the patriarchal relations of the domestic setting, the economic setting, community and neighbourhood, sexuality, the state and culture. On the basis of orientations to gender roles, two forms of masculinities have been established. 'Traditional patriarchs' tended to have experienced lone fatherhood as a gender and parenting crisis to be resolved via minimal change. They were more likely to have developed routines for managing housework than traditional patriarchs, they tended not to regret the additional responsibilities of lone fatherhood, and had an orientation to masculinities which placed child care and parenting as important for men as well as for women. The results of this study suggest that the commonly held assumption that therre has been no recent significant restructuring of male gender roles is an oversimplification. Whilst the members of this sample should not be seen to be New Men, both traditional patriarchs and gender pioneers were more involved with their children and with the management of the household than they had been prior to lone fatherhood, and virtually all the men in the study were more 'active' as fathers and as workers in the domestic setting than men have generally been found to be in studies of two parent families. The study concludes with a discussion of some issues that arise from these findings, and with suggestions for further research.
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de, Boise Sam. "Masculinities, music, emotion and affect." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2012. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/3400/.
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Background: Gendered inequalities have historically been legitimated through the discursive enforcement of ‘natural’ sexual difference. One particular fallacy that has denied females a political voice, is that white, Western, males are more ‘naturally’ equipped for rational thought or strive for emotional suppression. In starting from the premise that this is always the case however, critical approaches to masculinities underestimate how adherence to the discursive ideal of rationality is mediated through emotional experience. Purpose: Using concepts of ‘habitus’ and ‘affect’ this thesis challenges the assumption that the perceived rejection of emotions, is firstly how masculinities are constructed. Secondly, because ‘individual’ emotions are a prerequisite to social action, it foregrounds the importance of a nuanced understanding of male emotional narratives explicitly through music. Culturally, music consumption is overtly concerned with ‘individual’ emotional experience and group interaction. Therefore male domination of music production and consumption, stands at odds with discourses of ‘rationality’, offering a means of understanding socially patterned, male emotional experience Methods: A two-stage, mixed methods approach was undertaken, with males ranging from ages 16-64 participating. The first stage was an online survey and the final sample included 361 males, spanning various demographics. The second stage was a series of six, life-history case studies with participants selected from those who had completed the survey, based on the richness of data they provided and stratified by age. Conclusions: Both survey and life-history accounts demonstrated a wealth of emotional experience. Whilst music was primarily used as a tool for emotional expression, it was also perceived to manage ‘undesirable’ emotions. Respondents’ emotional engagement with music differed over the course of their lives, in line with socially patterned expectations. This has implications for the notion of ‘learning to be affected’ through the construction of masculinities, indicating new ways of theorising about masculinities as social embodiment.
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Martino, Wayne. "Interrogating masculinities: regimes of practice." Thesis, Martino, Wayne (1998) Interrogating masculinities: regimes of practice. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 1998. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/185/.
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This thesis draws on post-Foucauldian theories of governmental power and technologies of the self to critically examine the deployment of post-structuralist, psychoanalytic, sociological and cultural studies' paradigms for theorising and researching masculinities. It is argued that a particular dialectical mode of rationality and a project of cultural completion inform these approaches which are based on a requirement to reconcile oppositional categories such as freedom and determination, subject-determining state and self-determining subject, social structure and social actor. The limits are outlined of theorising subjectivity in terms of the restoration of consciousness to the individual and as the means by which 'culture' is mediated via repressive andlor ideological mechanisms.
An alternative theorisation of subjectivity, conceiving of masculinities as enacted within regimes of historically contingent nomalising practices, is applied to an investigation of how specific groups of boys learn to relate as gendered subjects in a particular school. Surveys, observational methods and semi-structured interviews are used to trace the specific effects of practices implicated in the formation of masculinities for the boys. Attention is also drawn to the relationship of specific models of masculinity to the boys' literacy practices.
On the basis of this research, important implications for practice at policy and pedagogical levels are identified.
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Martino, Wayne. "Interrogating masculinities : regimes of practice /." Martino, Wayne (1998) Interrogating masculinities: regimes of practice. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 1998. http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/185/.
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This thesis draws on post-Foucauldian theories of governmental power and technologies of the self to critically examine the deployment of post-structuralist, psychoanalytic, sociological and cultural studies' paradigms for theorising and researching masculinities. It is argued that a particular dialectical mode of rationality and a project of cultural completion inform these approaches which are based on a requirement to reconcile oppositional categories such as freedom and determination, subject-determining state and self-determining subject, social structure and social actor. The limits are outlined of theorising subjectivity in terms of the restoration of consciousness to the individual and as the means by which 'culture' is mediated via repressive andlor ideological mechanisms.
An alternative theorisation of subjectivity, conceiving of masculinities as enacted within regimes of historically contingent nomalising practices, is applied to an investigation of how specific groups of boys learn to relate as gendered subjects in a particular school. Surveys, observational methods and semi-structured interviews are used to trace the specific effects of practices implicated in the formation of masculinities for the boys. Attention is also drawn to the relationship of specific models of masculinity to the boys' literacy practices.
On the basis of this research, important implications for practice at policy and pedagogical levels are identified.
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Tolley, Rebecca. "American Masculinities: A Historical Encyclopedia." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2003. https://www.amzn.com/0761925406.
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Book Summary: American Masculinities: A Historical Encyclopedia is a first-of-its-kind reference, detailing developments in the growing field of men′s studies. This up-to-date analytical review serves as a marker of how the field has evolved over the last decade, especially since the 1993 publication of Anthony Rotundo′s American Manhood. This seminal book opened new vistas for exploration and research into American History, society, and culture. Weaving the fabric of American history, American Masculinities illustrates how American political leaders have often used the rhetoric of manliness to underscore the presumed moral righteousness and ostensibly protective purposes of their policies. Seeing U.S. history in terms of gender archetypes, readers will gain a richer and deeper understanding of America′s democratic political system, domestic and foreign policies, and capitalist economic system, as well as the "private" sphere of the home and domestic life. The contributors to American Masculinities share the assumption that men′s lives have been grounded fundamentally in gender, that is, in their awareness of themselves as males. Their approach goes beyond scholarship which traditionally looks at men (and women) in terms of what they do and how they have influenced a given field or era. Rather, this important work delves into the psychological core of manhood which is shaped not only by biology, but also by history, society, and culture.
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Kovitz, Marcia Mitzi Ruth. "Mining masculinities in the Canadian military." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0019/NQ47689.pdf.
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Olson, Linda Helena. "Masculinities in Bruce Lee's 'Breakthrough' films." Thesis, Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2007. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B38778907.
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Scalena, Adam Nicholas. "State masculinities in Siam, 1910-1925." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/14731.
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This essay examines the crucial role of certain types of gender constructions in
the nationalist project. The Siamese state had to reform in the late nineteenth century if it was to survive in an Asia dominated by European imperial powers. The Chakri dynasty
created a salaried bureaucracy both for its civilian and military functions, and perhaps
more importantly, strictly separated the two functions in the process. This bureaucracy
created new problems for the dynasty. How could it ensure loyalty to a hereditary
monarch when his position was becoming increasingly superfluous? How could the
monarchy maintain its centrality within the state? King Vajiravudh responded to the new
challenge by resorting to a gendered strategy; through creating the paramilitary
organization, The Wild Tigers Corps, he built up a solidarity among the men staffing this single-sex institution. The king cultivated a warrior ethos among the bureaucrats and positioned himself as the chief warrior. Additionally, through his didactic writings, he encouraged his ‘wild tigers’ to reform their domestic life so that they could serve the state more effectively. Government officials were told to stick to monogamous relationships
and be content with a humble Thai wife who could provide a nurturing home life. This
analysis of King Vajiravudh’s initiatives demonstrates that changing conceptions of
masculinities were intimately linked to the formation of the Siamese nation-state.
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Vrooman, Patrick Duane. "Passing Masculinities at Boy Scout Camp." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1182780149.
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Winlow, Simon. "Badfellas : crime, tradition and new masculinities /." Oxford : Berg, 2001. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb38869170q.
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Trickett, Loretta Faye. "Masculinities and the 'fear of crime'." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.635435.
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My overall aim within this thesis is to tackle a neglected area within criminological thought, that of male 'Fear of Crime'. My interest originated from the notion of a disparity between levels of 'fear' reported by men and women. Hough and Mayhew (1983) found that it was young working class men, particularly those that frequented pubs and clubs that were most at risk from personal attack albeit women and the elderly expressed most anxiety. This led to the depiction of those 'fears' that did not correspond to objective levels of risk as being 'irrational'. I suggest that in reality, these so called gender disparities 1 are attributable to the way in which 'fear' has been researched, most commonly by victim surveys, which exclude the particularities of experience and context. The aforementioned assumptions about men's 'fearlessness' of crime can be attributed, in part, to the dearth of information on the subject. There has been a prevalent assumption that men are naturally reticent and reluctant to discuss feelings/experiences (see Stanko and Hobdell 1993: 400). What is missing from the literature is a qualitative study that examines men's concerns around crime. I suggest that 'fear' cannot actually be 'measured', although men can be asked to recall 'fearful' moments. Consequently, this research focuses on the recalling of 'fearful' moments, the constructions of 'risk' grounded in experiences of victimization and those that are purely hypothetical. It is also important to provide men with opportunities to discuss other concerns because it is recognized that the 'Fear of Crime' can serve as an idiom for other insecurities (Merry, 1981). This might be particularly true for men because they may be less likely to be asked or expected to express 'fears' and concerns around crime. This research is aimed at addressing this gap in the literature by taking a qualitative approach that uses depth interviews to enable respondents to discuss concerns more broadly. The research is set within a particular geographical area and includes three age categories to discern whether there are differences in the masculine identities of my respondents at different life stages. If such differences do exist then, the question is, what impact do these have on concerns and 'fears' around crime and 'incivilities'?² In this way my study examines how men achieve masculine identities and concludes that concerns around crime and incivilities are intimately bound up with them as men.
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Brittan, Owen. "British masculinities beyond patriarchy, 1689-1702." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2017. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/271236.
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This research project examines multiple constructions of masculinity during the reign of William III (1689-1702), a period often overlooked by historians of masculinity. Historical interpretations of masculinity in the early modern period have focused heavily on patriarchal models of masculinity and the accompanying gendered relationships and expectations associated with the household. Recently, historians have turned their attention to cultures of politeness and civility in the public sphere. Yet masculinity in this period was more diverse than these prominent models allow because it could be constructed through a number of different processes. Using normative literature and experiential records, this project seeks to add to the scholarship on nonpatriarchal constructions, understandings, and norms of masculinity. Four non-domestic settings were particularly prominent and recurrent throughout the autobiographical sources and normative literature of the period: the military, government and public service, commerce, and religion. The norms associated with each setting were complex. Moreover, these norms sometimes varied between settings in ways that created tension. Negotiating masculinity in accordance with the normative expectations of various settings could be taxing. Each of these four settings constitutes a chapter in this dissertation, along with a final chapter that shifts the focus beyond the British Isles to how British colonists, travellers, and traders experienced the foreign hardships, climates, and peoples of the geographical periphery, which often necessitated further alternative constructions of masculinity. Grounded upon men's experience recorded in their own words in diaries, journals, and memoirs, this project highlights the numerous ways of establishing manhood and demonstrates the variability of masculinity as an identity that is both subjective and socially contingent. Examining settings of masculinity outside of the household and beyond male female relations at the turn of the eighteenth century confirms that masculinity is multiple, nuanced, complicated, and (at times) anxious.
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CASTRO, RICARDO GONÇALVES. "REDEEMING MASCULINITIES: REPRESENTATIONS AND MEANINGS OF MASCULINITIES AND VIOLENCE IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF AN AMAZONIAN PASTORAL THEOLOGY." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2018. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=34264@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROCOORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR
PROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTS. DE ENSINO
PROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTITUIÇÕES COMUNITÁRIAS DE ENSINO PARTICULARES
A tese analisa a relação entre as masculinidades, violência e religiosidade a partir do contexto Amazônico. Esta se volta para os significados das masculinidades encarnadas nas representações elaboradas dentro dos contextos interculturais e históricos da religiosidade amazônica. Masculinidades no plural quer expressar a diversidade de expressões que se constrói tanto na vida das pessoas, como nas expressões culturais e religiosas. A pesquisa usa da metodologia das teologias contextuais da libertação, porque se elabora a partir de aspectos da realidade cultural-religiosa de onde deriva compreensões críticas das representações teológicas sobre as masculinidades. As mediações teóricas são elaboradas a partir das perspectivas teológicas de gênero, feminista, pós-colonial e intercultural. O problema central desta pesquisa é a relação entre os vários significados de masculinidades presente nas representações religiosas e teológicas, como causa de violência ou possibilidade de redenção. A hegemonia de uma masculinidade construída a partir de estruturas coloniais violentas, princípios racionais e teológicos patriarcais, ao ser desconstruída, abre a possibilidade de melhor compreender e enriquecer a vivência humana nos seus modos plurais, no contexto Amazônico. Esta reflexão teológica procura oferecer significados teológicos atualizados, para que a vida humana e suas relações, sejam transformadas e manifestem os sinais do Reino de Deus. Masculinidades, são colocadas na esfera da história, da cultura e da religião que os homens habitam, elas são interculturais, hibridas, ou seja, não são estáveis, mas estão em constante processo de reformulação. Essa constatação é um aspecto importante para pensar possibilidades pastorais do cuidado de homens no âmbito eclesial. Uma antropologia pastoral das masculinidades se fundamenta na perspectiva trinitária e kenótica, na releitura de suas representações bíblico-teológicas: êxodo, páscoa, kénosis, morte e ressurreição – da escravidão para a liberdade de filhos e filhas, da morte para a vida em plenitude. Masculinidades redimidas na Amazônia bebe das fontes cristãs, mas também da cultura milenar de seus povos, tornando-se ecológicas. A formação e vivência de novas identidades masculinas necessitam de processos iniciáticos, ou seja, adquirir uma consciência de si mesmo como pessoa – adquirir compreensão da corporeidade espiritual, subjetiva, intersubjetiva e chamada a vivência comunitária.
The thesis aims to analyze the relationship between masculinities, violence and religiosity from the Amazon context. It turns to the meanings of masculinities embodied in the representations elaborated within the intercultural and historical contexts of Amazon religiosity. Masculinities in the plural wants to express the diversity of expressions that is built both in people s lives and in cultural and religious expressions. The research uses a methodology of the contextual liberation theologies, because it is built from aspects of the cultural-religious reality from which critical understandings of theological representations about masculinities derive. The theoretical mediations are elaborated from the theological perspectives of gender, feminist, postcolonial and intercultural. The central problem of this research is the relationship between the various meanings of masculinities present in religious and theological representations, as cause of violence or possibility of redemption. The hegemony of a masculinity built from violent colonial structures, patriarchal rational and theological principles, by being deconstructed opens the possibility of better understanding and enriching human experience in its plural modes, in the Amazon context. This theological reflection seeks to offer up-to-date theological meanings, so that human life and its relationships are transformed and manifest the signs of the Kingdom of God. Masculinities are placed in the sphere of history, culture and religion that men inhabit, they are intercultural, hybrid, it means, they are not stable, but are constantly in the process of reformulation. This observation is an important aspect to think about the pastoral possibilities of caring for men in the ecclesial sphere. A pastoral anthropology of masculinities is based on the trinitarian and kenotic perspective, re-reading its biblical-theological representations: exodus, easter, kenosis, death and resurrection - from slavery to the freedom of sons and daughters, from death to life in fullness. Redeemed masculinities in the Amazon drink from Christian sources, but also from the ancient culture of its peoples, so that it becomes ecological. The formation and experience of new masculine identities need initiatory processes, that is, to acquire an awareness of oneself as a person - to acquire an understanding of the spiritual, subjective, intersubjective bodiliness and called the community experience.
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Ravenhill, James Peter. "Gay masculinities : a mixed methods study of the implications of hegemonic and alternative masculinities for gay men." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2018. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/75687/.
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Contemporary theories of gender conceptualise masculinity as a socially constructed, pluralistic and action-oriented entity. Hegemonic masculinity is the dominant masculinity discourse in many Anglophone societies. Heterosexuality is the bedrock of hegemonic masculinity, and heterosexual expressions of masculinity are more socially desirable than gay masculinities. Although gay men are unable to embody hegemonic masculinity, prior research suggests that their behaviour may nevertheless be guided by its mandates. This may include gay men's sexual positioning behaviour in anal intercourse – previous research has demonstrated that gay sexual positions are steeped in gender role stereotypes. The mixed-methods programme of studies presented in this dissertation provides a greater understanding of the components of “gay masculinities”, and how positioning in relation to masculinity discourses is associated with how gay men experience their masculinity, including in anal intercourse. A discursive qualitative approach used in Study 1 identified how gay men could “compensate” for their homosexuality by displaying attributes associated with hegemonic masculinity (e.g., muscularity). It was also found that gay masculinities were notable for their diversity (Chapter 3). Using quantitative methods, Study 2 demonstrated that gay men who are anally-insertive in anal intercourse were perceived as more masculine than those who are receptive, although muscularity and a deep voice were more strongly associated with perceptions of gay men's masculinity than sexual positioning (Chapter 4). In Study 3, an experiential qualitative approach identified how gay men's beliefs about masculinity were associated with their gendered perceptions and experiences of anal intercourse (Chapter 5). Insight was also provided into the range of beliefs that gay men have about masculinity, and how these beliefs are related to how gay men negotiate their masculine and gay identities against the dominance of the hegemonic masculinity discourse (Chapters 6 and 7).
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Bongwana, Thembelihle. "Masculinities and fatherhood in a South African context: exploring Xhosa men's experiences of fatherhood and ideas about masculinities." Thesis, University of Cape Town, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/2664.
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This is a qualitative study that explores meanings around fatherhood among Xhosa fathers in Cape Town. In so doing, the dissertation goes on to explore attitudes, beliefs, and needs of these township fathers have with regards to taking care of their children. This is a descriptive and exploratory qualitative study which was conducted with a sample of 4 Xhosa fathers. Responses around fathering clustered into the following themes: challenging notions of nurturing as women's roles, changing patterns in fatherhood, fatherhood as a process, multiple ways of fathering, communal and familial support structures, and deviation from ‘traditional' norms and ‘traditional' ideas around fathering. The fathers in this study identified a number of benefits and opportunities to being good fathers who were actively involved in their children's lives.
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Field, M. "Boys, education, pedagogies : reconstructing sport, reconstructing masculinities /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2005. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe19295.pdf.
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Onyango, James Ogola. "Masculinities in Kiswahili children's literature in Kenya." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-91156.
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Children's literature affects the child's socialisation process, including the shaping the gender roles. But despite this, up to now children have featured less in gender scholarship. Against this backround, this paper seeks to critically interrogate the physical, social, economic and political manifestations of masculinities in selected Kiswahili children\'s books from Kenya. By analysing these works, we hope to demonstrate that power and ideological aspects of masculinites are rooted at childhood. Since special attention will be paid to the ideological and power basis of the masculinities, the analysis of the selected works is done in the encompassing prism of Critical Discourse Analysis revealing hegemonic masculinities.
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Kizilkan, Nurhayat. "Spaces Of Masculinities: Bachelor Rooms In Suleymaniye." Master's thesis, METU, 2009. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12610652/index.pdf.
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This study attempts to understand the relational formation of masculine identites and masculine spaces in the construction and production of masculinities by looking at the notion of &ldquobachelor&rdquo
and the socio-spatial reflections of &ldquo
bachelorship&rdquo
, a particular case of manliness in Turkish context, in the case of &ldquo
bachelor rooms&rdquo
in Sü
leymaniye district in Eminö
nü
, Istanbul from the perspective of feminist geography. Neighborhoods gendered with bachelor rooms situated near the commercial heart of the big cities as a sociological and historical phenomenon in Turkish urban context have been christalized reflections of segregated heterosexual gender structure of the society being these neighborhoods the performative spaces of masculinities for centuries. This study also tries to relate the bachelor rooms with traditional single male migration from rural to urban. These neighborhoods provide space for the performance of different masculinities and they function for young provincial men as a kind of &ldquo
rite of passage&rdquo
for various kinds of social transitions. The knowledge of migration, of masculinities, and of space related to these transitions is accumulated in the homo-social spaces of the district and constantly recirculated through migrant bachelors among the local traditional masculinities. Masculinities of not only the immigrants from rural, but of urban space, including space bounded masculinities specific to the district have been categorized from the perspective of hegemonic masculinity concept and concluded that the construction of hegemonic type of masculinity with contestations and discourses through performances, representations and the power relations influences the transformation of space and are influenced by these spaces of masculinities.
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Skelton, Christine. "Masculinities and primary schooling : two case studies." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1998. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/34675/.
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This thesis is a study of the ways in which hegemonic masculinity is constructed in two primary schools. Its principal perspective is feminist, though it draws heavily on the substantial body of work on masculinities within sociology. Connell's (1987) understanding of hegemonic masculinity which informs much of the work in this area, underpins the theoretical framework for conceptualising how a school constructs specific forms of masculinities which are powerfully shaped by ideologies and structures in wider society. The notion of 'critical incidents' is employed to ascertain how social processes come together in specific combinations in order to explore hegemonic and other modes of masculinities. This study is a feminist analysis of masculinities in school settings. As such, methodological/theoretical issues occupy a central role. The research on which the study is based was conducted with teachers and children in two primary schools located in different socio-economic areas of the same city. In one school the focus was on a class of 6-7 year olds, and in the other, on 9-10 year olds. The study adopts a qualitative methodology in the form of ethnography in order to explore teacher-pupil classroom behaviours and the peer relationships and social interaction of children, with a particular focus on boys. The study both confirms findings of other research on masculinities and primary schools which show the importance of locale on constructions of hegemonic masculinity and draws attention to previously unacknowledged issues. Locating the research in a middle- and a working-class school enabled a comparison of the ways in which the characteristics of a social area influence the processes of masculine constructions in a school. Also, the study considers the impact of the Education Reform Act (1988) on constructions of dominant masculinities in schools. Importantly, these two ethnographic case studies have been undertaken from a feminist position and the researcher's relationships with, and explorations of the relationships between, male teachers and boys contribute new insights into how hegemonic masculinity is constructed, at the level of the school, through various discourses.
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Pyke, Toni. "'Reformed' men? : positioning masculinities in Alexandra township." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2017. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/66591/.
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Despite the growing body of literature focusing on men and masculinity/ies, there is limited material that adequately explores the everyday experiences and specificities of being and living as a man in diverse social and cultural contexts. Furthermore, inadequate consideration is given to the unique ways in which men redefine, renegotiate and reconstruct their masculinities and multiple identities over time, or the challenges/limitations that they may experience during this process. More importantly, there is a lack of critical attention given to men’s agentic roles in supporting a vision for gender equality and social change. Considering men’s lived realities, subjectivities, the ways in which they redefine and reconstruct multiple masculinities and social identities across time and diverse social and cultural environments, has significant implications for studying and working with men in international human development contexts. In this thesis, I consider these dimensions within the context of township living. Through daily interactions with men in Alexandra township in Johannesburg, South Africa, I explore their subjective interpretations of what it means to be a man in this context and the ways in which change, specifically political, social and economic change, is experienced through their daily lives, their sense of self and their social relationships. I demonstrate that as men reflect on change, they struggle to renegotiate the parameters of their masculinities within a patriarchal context that is steadfast in its expectations of traditional gendered norms, alongside an absence of alternative masculine blueprints for transforming masculinities. Through self-reflection, peer group support and for some, access to gender-transformative workshops, some men are actively engaging with the change agenda and are exploring their lives and their future aspirations, and reconsidering what it means to be a man in the context of Alexandra township.
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Onyango, James Ogola. "Masculinities in Kiswahili children's literature in Kenya." Swahili Forum 14 (2007), S. 245-254, 2007. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A11506.
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Children''s literature affects the child''s socialisation process, including the shaping the gender roles. But despite this, up to now children have featured less in gender scholarship. Against this backround, this paper seeks to critically interrogate the physical, social, economic and political manifestations of masculinities in selected Kiswahili children\''s books from Kenya. By analysing these works, we hope to demonstrate that power and ideological aspects of masculinites are rooted at childhood. Since special attention will be paid to the ideological and power basis of the masculinities, the analysis of the selected works is done in the encompassing prism of Critical Discourse Analysis revealing hegemonic masculinities.
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Wiltshire, Kim Kristina. "The loser : alternative masculinities in contemporary texts." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.547968.
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Nejako, H. Alexander. "Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison: Conflicting Masculinities." W&M ScholarWorks, 1994. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625892.
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Viteri, Marquez Elisa Andrea. "Literary masculinities in contemporary Egyptian dystopian fiction : Local, regional and global masculinities as social criticism in Utopia and The Queue." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för Asien-, Mellanöstern- och Turkietstudier, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-184262.
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In the aftermath the 25th January Revolution of 2011, two Egyptian dystopian novels stand out as particularly relevant: Utopia (2008) by Ahmed Khaled Towfik, and The Queue (2013), by Basma Abdel Aziz. Due to the absence of studies that pay attention to how gender relations are portrayed in Arabic dystopian novels, this study focuses on the literary representation of men and masculinities in Utopia and The Queue. This thesis uses narratology and content analysis in order to show that, although patterns of local masculinities are different in both novels, regional and global models of masculinity clearly point out men as controlling, violent and hypersexual, which is supported by multiple institutions, such as the state, media, and the religious establishment. The inclusion of relevant ethnological studies of masculinities in Egypt confirms that the social criticism of the novels include gender relations, and refers to the time in which the novels were written. This study points out the need for recognizing Arabic dystopian fiction as a valuable instrument that carries meaningful and intricate social criticism, as well as the need for the inclusion of gender as a category of literary analysis.
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Pettyjohn, Celine Lyn Doherty. "Swingers masculinities and male sexualities in ballroom dance /." abstract and full text PDF (free order & download UNR users only), 2007. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1446434.
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Imms, Wesley David. "Boys doing art negotiating masculinities within art curriculum /." Thesis, Full text available online (restricted access), 2003. http://images.lib.monash.edu.au/ts/theses/Imms.pdf.
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McMillan, Neil Livingstone. "Tracing masculinities in twentieth-century Scottish men's fiction." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2000. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5190/.
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Tracing Masculinities in Twentieth-Century Scottish Men's Fiction takes account of the representation of masculinities in a selected group of novels by twentieth-century Scottish male authors. Rather than attempt a chronological survey of fictions during this period, the argument proceeds by analysing groups of texts which are axiomatic in specific ways: the Glasgow realist novels of the 1930s and post-1970s, from the works of James Barke and George Blake to those of William McIlvanney and James Kelman, which offer particular perspectives on relationships between men of different class identifications; fictions reliant upon existentialism, which intersect with the masculinist values of the Glasgow tradition in the figure of Kelman, but are also produced by Alexander Trocchi and Irvine Welsh; and novels which employ the technique of 'cross-writing', or literary transvestism, from the Renaissance fictions of Lewis Grassic Gibbon to the postmodern works of Alan Warner and Christopher Whyte. In a critical field which has always been concerned with a tradition of largely male-produced texts privileging the actions of male characters, but has neglected fully to consider the production and reception of those texts in terms of their specific articulations of gender positions, this thesis employs theories of masculinities developed in the study of American and English literatures since the 1980s in order to provide new perspectives on Scottish novels. It also draws upon the materialist theory of Louis Althusser for a model of ideological identification, as well as utilising several psychoanalytic and deconstructive approaches to gender formation in Western culture, epitomised by the work of Judith Butler and Kaja Silverman. The various perspectives on masculine gender and sexual identities thus assembled are primarily directed towards considering the novels under discussion as 'men's texts' - texts not only by or about men, but often directed towards men as readers too.
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Richardson, Noel. "Men's health practices and the construction of masculinities." Thesis, University of the West of England, Bristol, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.441816.
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DUTRA, JOÃO VICTOR PINTO. "MATRYOSHKA PUTINA: MASCULINITIES, SECURITY AND BORDERING IN RUSSIA." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2015. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=27094@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROCOORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR
PROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTS. DE ENSINO
As mudanças ocorridas na Rússia desde a eleição de Vladimir Putin são marcantes tanto nas esferas materiais como simbólicas. No plano sociológico é possível observar o aparecimento de uma masculinidade hegemônica e hipermasculina, que estabelece uma hierarquia e ordem na sociedade. Assim, é importante o questionamento sobre quais alicerces a política se sustenta e em que medida essas relações se articulam tendo em vista a criação de uma determinada ordem social produzida que marginaliza, exclui e hierarquiza. Desta maneira, o Estado como prática das relações de poder constrói dicotomias e espaços de autorização e exclusão que, em última instância são condições de possibilidade da agência política. Com as Revoluções Coloridas, a possibilidade de uma intervenção estrangeira por dentro do regime transformou-se numa paranoia constante. O ocidente, então aparece como um espaço moral de ameaças e perigos; mais que isso, aceitar e defender um estilo de vida ocidental torna-se um exemplo de anti-patriotismo e objeto da definição de limites tanto internos como externos. Nesse sentido, podemos estabelecer uma relação entre a formulação da Política Externa/política externa no estabelecimento de ameaças e perigos para uma determinada narrativa sobre a Rússia. Por isso, a matryoshka é uma figura excepcional: bonecas que definem as fronteiras uma das outras sucessivamente, mas que sempre guardam alguma coisa dentro de si. A ascensão de Vladimir Putin e as narrativas políticas que lhe são capilarizadas perpassam necessariamente questões sociais e políticas essenciais para as Relações Internacionais: segurança e perigo, interno e o externo, autoridade e exclusão.
The changes in Russia since Vladimir Putin s election are striking both in material and symbolic spheres. In sociological level one can observe the emergence of a hegemonic masculinity and hypermasculine establishing a hierarchy and order in society. It is therefore important to question about how the political foundation is sustained and to what extent these relations are articulated to creating a certain social order that marginalizes, excludes and hierarchizes. In this way, the state as a practice of power relations and dichotomies produces spaces of exclusions that ultimately are conditions of possibility of political agency. With the Coloured Revolutions, the possibility of a foreign intervention inside Russia was transformed in a constant paranoia. The West, then appears as a moral space of threats and dangers; more than that, accept and defend a Western lifestyle becomes an example of anti-patriotism and object of the definition of both internal and external limits. In this sense, we can establish a relationship between the formulation of foreign / foreign policy in the establishment of threats and dangers for a particular narrative about Russia. Therefore, the matryoshka is an exceptional figure: dolls that define the boundaries of the other successively, but always keep something inside. The rise of Vladimir Putin and political narratives necessarily permeate social issues and key policies for International Relations: safety and danger, internal and external, authority and exclusion.
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Magee, David G. "The deconstruction of violent masculinities amongst Ulster loyalists." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2013. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=201700.
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Despite recent interest in masculinities and the Northern Ireland peace process, the gender dynamics of Ulster Loyalism has yet to capture serious interest among scholars. This research attempts to address this omission in the literature that informs our understanding of Loyalism. The research was conducted with groups of UDA and UVF aligned young men, who participated in a series of workshops. Groups of older Loyalist men and Loyalist women also participated in focus groups and semi-structured interviews. The thesis focuses on three aspects of Loyalist masculinity. Loyalism is presented as a highly gendered form of military masculinity, deeply rooted in local community narratives and social and cultural practices. Loyalist masculinity is not monolithic, but instead is understood as multiple and fluid. The thesis addresses how allegiance to patriarchal hypermasculinities damaged the emotions of Loyalist men and left many struggling with relationship problems, substance abuse, and mental health issues relating to the conflict. The thesis also explores the extent to which Loyalist men are engaging in transformation, if and why Loyalist men have changed, and in what forms this change takes. It understands the transformation of Loyalist masculinities as the transcending of patriarchal values and the will to dominate. It outlines the uneven nature of transformation of Loyalist men and describes the factors that influenced their transformation as twin pressures that both simultaneously encourage and discourage change in Loyalist men as Northern Ireland advances further into a post-violent terrain.
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Razak, Amina. "'South Asian' young men : stories, accounts and masculinities." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/29333.
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This thesis is concerned with young 'South Asian' and in particular Bangladeshi and Pakistani men, their new masculinities and experiences of racism. The thesis examines the life stories of young Bangladeshi and Pakistani young men aged eighteen to twenty-eight living in the North-East and North-West of England. The thesis contributes to research and theory on Bangladeshi and Pakistani masculinity by looking in detail at young men's lives and how they understand and talk about these. This is a comparative piece of research which analyses and dissects the experiences of young Bangladeshi and Pakistani young men and realizes what configures their masculinity, it takes as axiomatic that 'South Asian's are not a homogenous category and there are various experiences, identities and masculinities at play. The thesis provides accounts of real experiences of how young men contend with their ethnicity, culture and masculinity in their lives and locality, and the tensions and strains they encounter in concealing their secret lives. The thesis is divided in to four chapters which offer a detailed literature review, a discussion of the life story research method and my own personal experiences, and the final two chapters analyse recurring themes in the young men's interviews and what 'makes' masculinity. The thesis concludes that young Bangladeshi and Pakistani men are not very different to young men of other ethnicities in relation to their use of violence and aggression, their form of protest, their defence and offence tactics, the occupation of space, and acts which display and confirm masculinity. What distinguishes young Bangladeshi and Pakistani men apart from other men is their cultural and religious heritage and the related understandings of 'man'.
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Power, Terri. "A method to her manliness : women performing masculinities." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2008. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.520072.
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Richardson, Michael Joseph. "Irish incarnate : masculinities and intergenerational relations on Tyneside." Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/2790.
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This study investigates Irish masculinities on Tyneside with thirty eight men of Irish descent over three living generations. The intergenerational approach to researching men’s lives contributes to the geographies of masculinities literature by researching the relationships between place, age, and gender. It considers the intersections of masculinity with roles within the family: such as son, father and grandfather. Furthermore, it looks at masculinities in the context of the workplace, the home, the school, and wider social settings to shed light on the aspirations and economic priorities of ‘Irish’ men. These discussions reveal gender and generation dynamics: looking at ‘growing up’ in the post industrial city; at the fusion of Irish and Geordie cultures; as well as the underpinning influence of class and religion. I note the intersections of age, roles within the family, embodied working identities and attitudes towards a religious upbringing as key to understanding the everyday experiences of men of Irish descent, in what I have called ‘Irish Incarnate’. To date, there has been much work on the intersectional aspects of identity – gender, race, religion – though much less which combines this with an intergenerational approach. I argue that generational differences have acted as a force of change in the perceptions and performances of Tyneside Irish masculinities. The thesis reveals significant change, often shaped by wider socio-economic factors, such as social mobility and the declining role of institutional religion; but also continuity, through an inheritance of culture and heritage and at times an explicit resistance to change. Through studying the processes of place, age, and masculinity with men of Irish descent I analyse how they negotiate growing up and growing old and all that is in between; how nationality is considered across generations, of what bits of them they claim to be Irish and why; and why ultimately, this all matters.
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Bronner, Irene Enslé. "Intimate masculinities in the work of Paul Emmanuel." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002193.
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Paul Emmanuel is a South African artist who produces incised drawings, outdoor installations and prints (particularly intaglio etchings and manière noire lithographs). These focus on the representation of male bodies and experience. Having begun his career as a collaborative printmaker, since 2002, his work has become more ambitious as well as critically acclaimed. In 2010, his most recent body of work, Transitions, was exhibited at the Smithsonian Museum of African Art in Washington D.C. I propose that Emmanuel represents the male body as a presence that either is not easily seen or that actively disappears or erases itself. Its subjectivity, and the viewer’s engagement with it, may be characterised as one of intimacy, exposure, loss and vulnerability. Emmanuel’s work may be said to question conventions and ideals of masculinity while, at the same time, refusing any prescriptive interpretation. To develop this proposition, I examine specifically Emmanuel’s incising drawing technique that ‘holds open’ transitions in male lives. In these liminal moments, Emmanuel represents men as ‘seen’ to change state or status, thereby exposing the ongoing process of building masculine identities. Equally elucidatory is Emmanuel’s imprinting of his own body, which, in his use of “traces” that reveal the vacillation between presence and absence, makes contingently ‘visible’ this gendering process, and has particular implications for the expression of subjectivity in a contemporary South African context.
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Zhang, Xingkui. "Studies of men and masculinities in contemporary china." Phd thesis, Faculty of Education and Social Work, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/10307.
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Johnson, D. H. "Masculinities in rural Australia : gender, culture, and environment." Thesis, Richmond, N.S.W. : University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury, 2001. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/21148.
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This research examines first the consequences of a learned, individualistic construction of masculinity as it exists within an aging population of farm men, and second the influence of this form of masculinity on possibilities for change in human relationships and industry practices. It is suggested that in a context of diminishing economic power and political influence, the prevailing model of masculinity has disabled the capacity of many farm men to manage change proactively. It is argued that evidence of a necessary change from instrumental, to-values and feelings-based engagement with human and natural systems has been slow to appear. A range of beliefs and attitudes are identified from the research data.Alternatives to traditional models of masculinity are examined. The research has been conducted using a Social Ecology approach, in which the personal autonomy arising from a coherent integration of values and beliefs informs our approach to all human and natural systems. Some possible consequences of such a change in personal orientation are explored, in relation to agricultural practices, community viability, and the fostering of social capital, and reference is made to alternative forms of community organisation.
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Johnson, D. H. "Masculinities in rural Australia : gender, culture, and environment /." Richmond, N.S.W. : University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury, 2001. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030409.155513/index.html.
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Wardell, Kathryn Brenna. "The rake's progress: Masculinities on stage and screen." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/11457.
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viii, 261 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.My dissertation analyzes the rake, the libertine male, a figure whose liminal masculinity and transgressive appetites work both to stabilize and unsettle hegemony in the texts in which he appears. The rake may seem no more than a sexy bad boy, unconnected to wider social, political, and economic concerns. However, my project reveals his central role in reflecting, even shaping, anxieties and desires regarding gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity. I chart the rake's progress from his origins in the Restoration era to the early twenty-first century. Chapter II examines William Wycherley's comedy The Country Wife in concert with John Dryden's Marriage à la Mode and Aphra Behn's The Rover to analyze the rake's emergence in seventeenth-century theatre and show that his transgression of borders real and figurative plays out the anxieties and aspirations of an emerging British empire. Chapter III uses John Gay's ballad opera The Beggar's Opera, a satiric interrogation of consumerism and criminality, to chart the rake in eighteenth-century British theatre as Britain's investment in global capitalism and imperialism increased. My discussion of Opera is framed by Richard Steele's early-century sentimental comedy The Conscious Lovers and Hannah Cowley's late-century The Belle's Stratagem, a fusion of sentiment and wit. Chapter IV hinges the project's theatre and film sections, analyzing Oscar Wilde's fin-de-siècle comedy The Importance of Being Earnest as a culmination of generations of theatre rakes and an anticipation of the film rakes of the modern and post-modern eras. Dion Boucicault's mid-century London Assurance is used to set up Wilde's queering of the rake figure Chapter V brings the rake to a new medium, film, and a new nation, the United States, as the figure catalyzes American tension over race and gender in early twentieth-century films such as Cecil B. DeMille's The Cheat, George Melford's The Sheik, and Ernest Lubitsch's Trouble in Paradise. My final chapter reads contemporary films, including Jenniphr Goodman's The Tao of Steve, Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz's About a Boy, and Gore Verbinski's trilogy Pirates of the Caribbean for Disney Studios, to assess the ways in which millennial western masculinity is in stasis.
Committee in charge: Dianne Dugaw, Co-Chair; Priscilla Ovalle, Co-Chair; Kathleen Karlyn; John Schmor
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Umegaki, Hiroko. "Men and masculinities in the changing Japanese family." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2017. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/270199.
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The shifting topography of contemporary Japanese society is engendering a significant reorientation of men’s family relations. However, exactly how Japanese men are adapting to these broad-based trends, including parent-child relations, demographics, marriage norms, care provision, residential choices, and gender roles, as well as in the decline of Confucian worldviews, remains relatively obscure. In this dissertation, I explore men’s everyday practices underpinning their family relations as husbands, fathers, sons-in-law, and grandfathers. I conducted ethnographic fieldwork in the summers of 2013 and 2014 in Hyogo, through narrative interviews and participant-observation. I find husbands’ view of their wives transitioning from having a culturally prescribed duty to perform domestic matters to simply having responsibility for domestic matters. This opens up space for negotiation within married couples, with my informants providing what I refer to as additional help, which offers new insight into charting the evolution of hegemonic masculinity. I evidence relatedness founded on exchange as an approach to understand relations across the extended family, which importantly involves additional help, financial resources, and intimacy. I underscore how men selectively seek intimacy in some family relations, notably as fathers and grandfathers. Provision of additional help and seeking of intimacy lead to men’s (re)construction of masculinities differing across family relations, with an important reason for men to select their practices so as to craft their family relations is to address their sense of well-being. Further, the pattern of men’s family relations reveals the emergence of substantially novel sons-in-law relations, as compared to that found in ie patriarchal norms. This evidence suggests a fundamental shift from a vertically-dominated set of family relations, as in the ie household, to a more horizontal, fluid set of relations across the extended family.
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Channing, Jill. "Threats to Masculinities: On Being a Woman Leader." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/4881.
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Giampaoli, Damiano <1985>. "Exiled in Paris The shaping of liminal masculinities." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/15847.
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This ethnographic research is about the study of the relations between LGBT North African asylum seekers in Paris, particularly men, and the volunteers of the associations assisting them during their asylum process.
Volunteers in the LGBT associations that I have visited appeared to uphold a culturally specific way of ‘being LGBT’, one that may be thought of – or presented as – universal, although it is the product of a cultural model with specific rules, codes and languages. As a result, spaces of LGBT socialisation can be perceived as unwelcoming or even exclusionary for people whose way of living and expressing a sexual orientation or gender identity does not match with this dominant model.
Through this research, I wanted to highlight how different expectations and understandings related to sexuality can affect the life experience of LGBT migrants both in the framework of the asylum process and during their socialisation in Paris. Narratives of victimisation, unequal power relations and the protection given by the refugee commissions only to those who are considered ‘credible LGBT’, contribute to the condition of liminality in which these migrants find themselves.
This research builds upon my participatory observation over a period of nine months in two associations assisting LGBT migrants in Paris, and includes some semi-structured interviews conducted with both migrants and volunteers that are familiar with the functioning of the LGBT associations in and around Paris.