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Stubbs, Joseph Olan. "Biblical masculinity understanding biblical masculinity /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), access this title online, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.2986/tren.083-0032.
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Aronovitz, Michael. "Hemingway and masculinity." Click here for download, 2006. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/villanova/fullcit?p1432830.
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King, Anthony James Social Sciences & International Studies Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences UNSW. "Violence suicide masculinity." Publisher:University of New South Wales. Social Sciences & International Studies, 2008. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/42681.
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Australia has one of the highest suicide rates in the developed world. Epidemiological data indicate that young men (15-25 years of age) make up one of the most vulnerable groups. The print media regularly portray men in this age group as aggressive and violent in various ways (on the sporting field, at war, in their cups, in contests and in leisure, all of which which take on many different forms). This dissertation presents a collection of such images gleaned over a number of years, the purpose of which is to evoke Durkheim's notion of suicidogenic currents that flow through the ??collective consciousness??, finding, according to Durkheim, their clearest expression in suicide rates. Using the notion of ??suicidogenic current?? as a sensitizing concept, this thesis traces the way in which violence weaves its way through social life and influences social relations that may be conducive to suicide. It will be argued that the images presented ?? arranged, for effect, as photomontages ?? express the celebration of violence as a powerful social trend which runs not only through social activity, but also through hearts and minds of contemporary persons; as such, it constitutes one of the suicide-inducing conditions in contemporary society.
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Fox, Emma. "Conrad and masculinity." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 1995. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/4072/.
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The thesis seeks to demonstrate that Conrad does not fit at all into the manly-heroic tradition which his work is often approached as belonging to. By tracing the entwining of masculine and homoerotic imagery in his major and minor works, as well as in the often neglected late novels, it is possible to discover ample evidence to suggest that he would be more accurately- if somewhat shockingly for critical tradition placed in the tradition of homosexual literature. Appended to the main body of the thesis is a glossary of homosexual codewords- words that were widely understood to refer to what was then the otherwise unmentionable crime of homosexuality from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This glossary is drawn both from the homosexual prose and poetry of the era, as well as from what evidence we have of wider public usages in contemporary newspapers, court-reports, diaries, letters, etc. At present, there is no recognition of, or collation of, the vast majority of these words in any dictionary of historical or sexual slang.
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MERCURI, EUGENIA. "FATHERHOOD AND MASCULINITY." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2434/569865.
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The thesis presents the results of a qualitative social research which deals with contemporary experiences and representations of fatherhood in the Italian context, with the main aim of looking at possible spaces for a deepening of the reflection on how studying fatherhood could give a contribution to the study of masculinities. Theoretically, it is based on the conceptual distinction between fathers, fathering and fatherhood, on conceptualizations of masculinities, and on critiques and developments of the concept of hegemonic masculinity: hybrid/plural masculinities on the one hand and inclusive/caring masculinities on the other. Methodologically, it is based on three sets of data: 33 discursive interviews with first time Italian fathers of children aged 0-3 years, all employed, heterosexual, and cohabiting with the mothers of their children (areas of Torino and Cuneo – Piedmont); 15 television advertisements depicting fathers, and a focus group with a subgroup of interviewees on media representations of fatherhood and issues related to care. The analysis of the empirical materials deals with different issues: the process of becoming a father, and the meanings attached to fatherhood; care practices and responsibilities; fatherhood as depicted in popular media culture; gender costruction in fathering practices. The fundamental aim is to understand whether contemporary experiences of fatherhood and transformations of traditional masculinities may represent a change in gender relations within the family, or instead have to be interpreted as hybridizations of hegemonic masculinity.
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LIMA, RENATA STELLMANN DE SOUSA. "MASCULINITY IN THE CLINIC." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2007. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=9704@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROEste trabalho tem como objetivo investigar os clientes masculinos e como eles têm reagido às recentes mudanças nas relações de gênero, segundo o olhar do psicólogo clínico. Para tanto, realiza-se, inicialmente, uma revisão dos estudos de gênero, dos estudos psicológicos de gênero e dos estudos da masculinidade à luz da perspectiva construtivista. Dado que a maior parte da bibliografia encontrada sobre estes temas é de origem estrangeira, apresenta-se em seguida um capítulo tratando das relações de gênero no Brasil, e os trabalhos desenvolvidos nesta área. Por fim, apresenta-se a pesquisa de campo, realizada com 10 psicólogos clínicos. Os principais resultados obtidos foram divididos em dois grandes temas. O primeiro, gênero na clínica, discute a clínica psicológica como espaço construtor de gênero e como os psicólogos vêm realizando isto. O segundo, as relações de gênero, discute alguns dilemas presentes no processo de mudança das relações de gênero, e qual pode ser o papel do psicólogo neste.
The present thesis aims to investigate the male clients and how they have been reacting to recent changes on gender relations, trough the psychotherapists´ eyes. A theoretical review of existing gender studies, psychological studies of gender, and of masculinity studies, in the light of the constructivist perspective, is done initially. Since most of the available bibliography about those themes is of foreign origin, a chapter about the relations of gender and works developed in this area in Brazil, is presented next. Finally, the research carried out with 10 clinical psychologists is presented. The main results obtained from this research were divided in two main subjects. The first one, gender in the clinic, discusses the psychological clinic as a space of gender construction, and how the psychologists are doing this. The second one, relations of gender, discusses some present dilemmas in the process of gender relations´ changes, and which may be the psychologist´s role in that.
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Nyborg, Erin. "The Brontës and masculinity." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:3d1d0ee1-f3f8-43cd-9fdd-5d44cfae2a83.
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This is the first comprehensive study of the Brontës' representations of masculinity. In it, I analyse the ways this family of writers depicted forms of masculinity as they developed from late-Romantic child writers to mature novelists and poets of the Victorian period. My chief concern is to situate the Brontës within the historical period of 1829-1855, from Charlotte's first Glass Town stories to the time of her death. This thesis examines the Brontë siblings' complete body of work, including Branwell's contributions to the Angrian saga, Emily's and Anne's Gondal poetry, and Charlotte's and Emily's Belgian devoirs. In undertaking this work, I model my approach on Heather Glen's precise, historical readings in Charlotte Brontë: The Imagination in History (2002), as well as John Tosh's social historical examination of Victorian masculinity, particularly in A Man's Place: Masculinity and the Middle-Class Home (1999). This study examines representations of masculinity in the modes of cultural production the Brontës were exposed to: contemporary periodicals, poetry, fiction, domestic handbooks, gift books, educational texts, clerical and medical handbooks, and labour management treatises. I track the Brontës' various engagements with and revisions of Byronic and Carlylean forms of masculinity, as well as the rise and fall of the silver fork dandy and the emergence of both the Victorian self-made man and the new professional. This study considers how the Brontës' representations of gender formation were affected by different modes of familial literary production and collaboration. Though the Brontës shared their creative works from a young age and grew up within the same domestic literary culture, the siblings' depictions of masculinity diverge, and each sister situates herself within various cultural contexts relating, for example, to child-rearing, romance, and professional conduct. My thesis is organised thematically, with chapters examining heroic, domestic, and professional representations of masculinity in the Brontës' works.
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Chung, Marilyn. "Hegemonic Masculinity and Transphobia." OpenSIUC, 2017. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/2089.
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Transphobia research has focused on predictors and correlations of prejudice toward transgender people. Consistently, male participants have higher transphobic attitudes compared to female participants in various studies. Further, males are overrepresented in crimes against transgender people. However, these studies were correlational and causation cannot be determined. Masculinity researchers outside of psychology have discussed maintenance of masculine privilege as a motivator for oppressive beliefs and actions. Thus, the goal of this study was to provide an experimental study of causes for increased transphobic attitudes in men, based on sociological and gender studies’ research on hegemonic masculinity. To test this, participants were given false feedback that masculinity score was either “feminine” (the experimental group) or “similar to their age group” (the control group). Results of the present study indicated participants in the experimental group reported nearly statistically significantly greater transphobia than those in the control group, p = .047. Although the findings were not significant, further research is needed to validate these findings. The study provides implications for future research on causes of transphobic attitudes and behaviors through sociological frameworks of power and privilege in the context of gender.
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Barry, Katherine. "Hegemony, protest masculinity, and film /." Title page, contents and introduction only, 2001. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arb279h.pdf.
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Godfrey, Richard David. "Military, masculinity and mediated representations." Thesis, Keele University, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.558325.
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The aim of this thesis is to consider how a new genre of war films can usefully contribute to ongoing discussions of masculinity through an exploration of the representation of masculinity and/in the military. This aim manifests itself in the following research question: Under the conditions of a perceived ‘crisis of masculinity’ what is the power/knowledge regime on war, the military and the military subject currently being constructed by a new genre of war-related cultural texts? Furthermore, how might an articulation of this power/knowledge regime deepen our wider understanding of the organisation of masculinity itself? In order to engage with this question I draw, primarily, on a Foucauldian reading of discourse, power/knowledge, discipline and notions of the (masculine) subject and locate the study within what might broadly be conceived of as a ‘cultural studies or organisation’ approach. I employ a visual discourse analysis method to read the texts under consideration. The objectives of the research are to contribute to management and organisation by problematizing and subsequently pluralizing the ways in which the military and masculinity have been conceived of within the literature in order to offer a more complex account of these concepts, and their interconnections, through their mediated representation.
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Chandler, Paul William. "Exploring masculinity: A theological framework." Thesis, Australian Catholic University, 2014. https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/download/8615805ac8a17118797141197ca35d639cc0dbda43af79e21de5cdb0149417e7/1516142/Chandler_2014_Exploring_masculinity.pdf.
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Male or female, the human person provokes a continuing stream of questions and reflection. This investigation concentrates on the theological significance of the male person. It takes into account the historical and cultural setting as well as considers the fields of sociology, psychology, and anthropology. The theology of the human person is not a new field of endeavour but rather one that has certainly emerged with some urgency alongside the development of existential and phenomenological philosophies in the twentieth century. A theology of the male human person, and thus of masculinity, is a more specific and emerging field. The aim of this thesis is to contribute to the specific discussion of masculinity within the wider conversation of theological anthropology. Contributing to the relevance of this task is the acknowledgment that it is possible that an understanding of the human person can be obscured among the trends and mores of the current cultural and secular context. The notion of the human person has become malleable, flexible and is in need of clarification. The aim of this thesis is to offer a Christian theological perspective towards a clearer, deeper, as well as a contemporary understanding of the male human person. This investigation proceeds by constructing a framework that uses key theological concepts and indicators so as to highlight the theological character of human masculinity. Such a theological framework permits masculinity’s theological quality to emerge clearly and critically. Just as a theology of femininity has emerged within the general field of theology, it is hoped that this research and its framework will make possible a more detailed theological development of masculinity. The thesis unfolds by first reviewing a body of literature in the area of masculinity, under various themes and groupings. Critical use is then made of Lonergan’s four “functions of meaning”, providing four perspectives on the topic of investigation. Firstly, the cognitive perspective outlines what the disciplines of sociology and psychology articulate about masculinity. Rather more space is spent on sociology because it is a wide area in which sexual identity and gender feature prominently. Sociology is divided into its descriptive, analytic and comparative approaches. Secondly, the constitutive perspective on masculinity is described both within culture and the church. It is the more popular literature on masculinity, and most particularly the mythopoetics, that figure prominently in this cultural perspective. Significant ways of being masculine in the church are examined as well. The relative absence of men in the Christian church is also analysed. The effective perspective on masculinity provides the third function of meaning and outlines three contemporary and successful organisations within the Catholic Church that cater for men, and most particularly for their faith and connection with the church. These three perspectives on masculinity then allow the communicative perspective to be considered. This admits a deeper analysis of the identity of the human person, which, in turn, allows an exposition of a theology of the human person. Finally, a theology of the human person is made explicit in reference to the masculine. In doing this, the thesis enumerates seven components of a sustainable framework for understanding a theology of masculinity. This work argues that it is possible to speak both of a theology of masculinity and also to describe masculinity theologically. There are qualities and characteristics of the male human person that are theological per se and there are possibilities and potentials for masculinity that are theological. Then, there are ways of approaching masculinity that are theological as well as significant contributions that theology makes to an understanding of masculinity in accord with the framework that the thesis constructs. The framework that emerges from this thesis makes more explicit what is implicit in masculinity when viewed through a theological lens. I propose that each component of the structure can be pursued fruitfully towards a more detailed and fuller theology of masculinity. This is one contribution to an ongoing critical re-examination of masculinity today.
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Singh, Amritesh. "Tudor women writers fashioning masculinity." Thesis, University of York, 2011. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/1522/.
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This thesis contributes to the growing interest in early modern masculinity and its literary representations by introducing texts by women writers into dialogue with their male-authored counterparts. It argues for a more nuanced approach that recognises that the concepts of masculinity and femininity can only be fully understood when studied in relation with each other. The first chapter explores how, notwithstanding the wisdom of conduct books and marriage guides, the demands of the state may not always be commensurate with those of the domestic realm and shows that this conflict necessitates a rethinking of existing definitions of masculinity by focusing on selected writings of the Tudor sisters Mary and Elizabeth and Jane Fitzalan’s *Tragedie of Iphigeneia*. The second chapter identifies how Elizabeth’s unique discursive strategies were designed to elicit support from her male subjects and subdue the belligerence that simmered under polemic like John Stubbs’ *Gaping Gulf*. In her letters to Anjou, the chapter examines how Elizabeth manoeuvred around her position as a beloved and as a monarch to fashion a husband who would not only be sympathetic but also subordinate to her political authority. This chapter also shows how the fabulous world of John Lyly’s *Galatea* consummates the Queen’s desire for the ideal male subject. The final chapter investigates the construction of martial manhood. It juxtaposes Mary Sidney’s *The Tragedy of Antonie* with William Shakespeare’s *Antony and Cleopatra* to determine how the figure of Cleopatra, common to both plays, challenges and revises the martial code of masculinity as embodied by Antony. By examining the authorial position appropriated by Cleopatra in the plays and its impact on the narrative, this chapter also extends this thesis’ interest in the extent to which female characters within texts compete for diegetic control with male protagonists.
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Singh, Yii-Jan Lin. "Mark and masculinity a narrative critical analysis of the second gospel /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2005. http://www.tren.com.
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Harpel, Whittaker Wigner. "Conceptions of masculinity among Arab Americans." Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University, 2010. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Thesis/Summer2010/w_harpel_042910.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A. in anthropology)--Washington State University, August 2010.Title from PDF title page (viewed on July 13, 2010). "Department of Anthropology." Includes bibliographical references (p. 95-106).
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Kay, Geoffrey Ernest, and n/a. "Masculinity in a corporate boys' school." University of Canberra. Education, 1994. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20051108.084123.
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This thesis is a report of a study of masculinity at Canberra
Grammar School, a corporate boys' school. The data were collected
during 1991 and 1992. The thesis questions the conventional wisdom
that a school like Canberra Grammar produces a particular
hegemonic masculinity. Indeed, it identifies the production of a
hierarchy of exalted, multiple masculinities.
There were limitations to what could be investigated in this
study, as well as to how it could be investigated. However, the ideas
and work of several people were blended in order to provide a way
into the questions of masculinity in this school. This eclectic
approach drew upon the literature of Popkewitz, Lather, and Parlett
and Hamilton, who called for narrative descriptions and
interpretation, as well as Beare, Caldwell and Millikan, whose
framework of school culture, albeit modified, provided very rich
information. This method resulted in an emphasis on what was
observed and read within the school, rather than on what might have
been heard, but, nevertheless, a great deal of relevant and useful data
were generated. The data were then interpreted with the help of
questions and insights formed by immersion in the literature on
masculinity and schools, particularly that of corporate boys' schools.
It was possible to identify multiple masculinities in the school,
and arrange them into a hierarchy based on the degree to which each
of them was exalted. These masculinities were fluid and the
hierarchy was dynamic. During the time of the study greatest
support was for "the man as scholar", "the sportsman" and "the man
as leader", three notions of masculinity traditionally associated with
these schools. There was also considerable support for the notion of
"the sensitive man", a notion that has been promoted in schools like
this for many years, but which draws upon traits and qualities less
traditionally associated with these schools. One area of fluidity was
an official move by the school's leaders towards the notion of "the
person", rather than the man. Contestation was evident as changes
occurred within this hierarchy, as well as within the notions
themselves.
These findings are significant for several reasons. Firstly,
they challenge the conventional wisdom about corporate boys'
schools. Secondly, for those working in this school and schools like
it who are searching for ways to bring about different gender and
social relations, the findings offer an encouraging, optimistic picture
of what this school is trying to do. The findings also identify those
within the school who might support or oppose counterhegemonic
practice, as well as areas of the school's culture that should be
targeted in the future. Thirdly, for those wanting to find out about
notions of maculinity in these schools, they show that the method
used here can be very productive, despite its limitations.
The first chapter of this thesis explains the reasons for this
study in more detail, and the second chapter describes and accounts
for the nature of the study. The main body of the thesis is in
Chapters Three, Four and Five, where findings about the school's
setting, curriculum and rituals are described and interpreted. The
thesis concludes with a chapter containing reflections on the reasons
for this study, as well as possible ways forward for those wishing to
investigate questions of masculinity in corporate boys' schools in the
future.
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Semper, Samantha. "Conversion : melancholia, masculinity, and psychic change." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/33734.
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This study chooses three representations of conversion and asks whether these might challenge or ‘talk back’ to discourse about conversion, or whether they simply transfer a deeply problematic melancholic attachment structure? This analysis considers three primary case studies: the religious conversion of St. Augustine as represented in his Confessions; John Howard Griffin’s white racial conversion narrative, Black Like Me; and the Hip-Hop conversion testimony of Caesar L. Willis, Rude Awakening, and his associated spiritual-autobiographical dance practice of krumping. The first two chapters specifically deal with religious conversion: Chapter One offers a reinterpretation of the role of the maternal and paternal object in religious conversion, and Chapter Two proposes a rereading of the conversion of St. Augustine using this model. The remaining chapters analyze conversion discourse in relation to, and from embedded stances within, the dynamics of racialized oppression and legacy of slavery in the United States of America.
The philosopher and psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva carefully distinguishes between “revolt”, from the Latin, revolvere, a productive ‘return’ and ‘rolling’ over of psychic structures, and the conversion, or conversio, turning, of the Christian man. She argues that religious conversion, the turn to religious faith, that ends in “reconciliation” or “unification” is a compromise: “a primary identification with a loving and protective agency” that is compensatory (24). It is a “fusion” with a “nourishing, loving, and protective” “breast” that is “transposed from the mother’s body to an invisible agency located in another world” (24). Building from this, my analysis argues that this compromise is a specifically melancholic compromise marked by the splitting and fusion with the maternal part-object, which is retained in a dynamic of “rejection, yet attachment to”. Because religious conversion is built on a drive toward ‘wholeness’ that is achieved through the fusion with a part-object, it does not represent an ethical relation or productive revolt. However, this analysis asks whether there are examples of conversion that do not end in a melancholic compromise, but instead open up to what Ranjana Khanna calls “critical melancholia” (22).
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Roemmele, David. "Peach fuzz: boys, masculinity and education." Thesis, McGill University, 2013. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=114423.
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Recent educational assessment findings demonstrate that educational concerns about boys are relevant and timely. Males are dropping out of school at higher rates, achieving lower grades, and appear to be losing historical advantages in math and science relative to females. These statistics have led to some fervent assertions being made regarding boys, masculinity, and education. Those assertions are tempered by developing a dialogue between social constructionist perspectives of masculinity, so-called biological determinist perspectives, and evolutionary psychology findings. First, a review of the historical generation of the debate about boys' education is conducted in order to understand both the technical terminology that has evolved to discuss boys and masculinity as well as the theoretical pitfalls in the turn to address boys' educational concerns. Next, a critical comparison of current perspectives is taken up in order to move towards developing a Social Constructionist Plus (SC+) theory of masculinity that is primarily social constructionist in emphasis but also accounts for sex difference trends demonstrated by evolutionary psychology research. Then, from this new theoretical perspective, relevant considerations in the debate about boys' education are re-evaluated, including males' educational (under)performance, the desire for more male teachers in schools, and males' violence. There are subtle but important shifts in perspective suggested for future research and theorizing. Lastly, the importance of a SC+ perspective is discussed relative to the future of boys' educational discussions and equality more generally, providing significant avenues for further research and analysis.Les conclusions d'évaluation scolaire récentes démontrent que les préoccupations pédagogiques regardant les garçons sont pertinents et à propos. Les garçons lâchent l'école à des taux plus élevés, atteignent des notes inférieures, et ils semblent perdre leur avantage historique en science et en math relatif aux femmes, ce qui à créé des affirmations ardentes en ce qui concerne les garçons, la masculinité et la scolarité. Cette dissertation tente de tempérer ces affirmations en développant un dialogue entre la perspective de la masculinité d'après les conceptions sociales, la perspective déterministe biologique et les conclusions de la psychologie évolutionniste. La dissertation commence en examinant la genèse historique du débat concernant l'éducation des garçons en vue de comprendre la terminologie technique qui s'est manifestée pour discuter des garçons et la masculinité et les pièges théoriques qui se présentent en adressant les préoccupations scolaires des garçons. Ensuite, une comparaison critique des perspectives courantes est entamée dans le but de progresser envers le développement d'un model de Conception Social plus (SC+) de la masculinité qui est principalement un model de conception social mais qui prend en compte les tendances des différences de sexe tel que démontré par la recherche en psychologie évolutionniste. De cette nouvelle perspective théorique, les considérations pertinentes dans le débat sur l'éducation des garçons sont réévaluées, y compris la (sous)performance des garçons, le désir de voir davantage d'enseignants masculins dans les écoles et la violence des hommes, incluant des changements subtils mais importants dans la perspective suggérée pour de futures recherches et analyses.
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McGaughey, Jane Gretta Victoria. "Ulster masculinity and militarisation, 1912-1923." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.499098.
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Breeze, Simon G. "Construction work : Masculinity in the workplace." Thesis, University of Kent, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.516204.
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MacDonald, Alex. "Submarine films as narratives of masculinity." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2002. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/29276/.
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The research for this thesis is on representations of masculinity in Anglo-American submarine films since 1943. The discussion will draw on relevant work on the representation of masculinity and popular cinema in film and cultural studies. In particular, the thesis will account for the notion of hegemony in relation to masculinity in the submarine film. Further, the notion of hegemonic masculinity will be addressed in terms of four key claims. These are as follows: that relations between groups are characterised solely by domination and subordination, that a singular hegemonic masculinity prevails at anyone time, that this masculinity is coherent, and that hegemonic masculinity is consistently dominant in relations of power. Through the reading of the films, this thesis will critique the notion of hegemonic masculinity in the following terms: a) the recurrent concern with the group emphasises teamwork and cooperation rather than domination and subordination. Even where these relations operate at the level of fantasy, they can suggest utopian possibilities of mutuality. b) This preoccupation with teamwork shows that the struggle between competing masculinities endorses difference in masculinity, not just a hegemonic masculinity. c) Rather than privileging hegemonic masculinity as coherent, this struggle leads to alliances between masculinities, in which hegemonic masculinity has to negotiate contradictions in masculinity. d) This account of submarine films therefore shows that masculinity involves the complex negotiation of differences and not solely the consistent privileging of hegemonic masculinity. The analysis will be organised into chapters that derive specifically from the following thematic concerns within the case study: nature, the masculine body, men's friendships, rationality, vision and power, ideological processes, and the submarine as masculine space. Through the discussion of these themes and the developments in submarine films, the thesis will show the extent to which representations of masculinity in the case study conform to assumptions about hegemonic masculinity and popular film.
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Claydon, E. Anna. "Masculinity and the sixties British film." Thesis, University of Kent, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.274320.
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Tucker, Staci. "Griefing: Policing Masculinity in Online Games." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12140.
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vii, 124 p.Despite the rise in participation and economic importance of online games as a media phenomenon, ever-growing virtual worlds that seemingly exist as "third places" for social interaction and relationship formation, there is little research on the experiences of gamers with harassment, discrimination, and hate speech. Though changes in the industry serve as evidence of shifting attitudes about female, GLBTQ, and non-white gamers, harassment and use of hate speech based on sex and sexual orientation continue to flourish unchecked in online games. This study explores the prevalence of homophobia and sexism in online games as expressed through "griefing" behavior used to police competitive spaces traditionally dominated by white, heterosexual men. This thesis employs qualitative research methods to illuminate the persisting homophobia, sexism, and racism as experienced by gamers in online console and PC games.
Committee in charge: Carol Stabile, Chair; Pat Curtin, Member; Gabriella Martinez, Member
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McDonald, Anne. "Primary school boys' narratives about masculinity." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/80281.
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Thesis (MEdPsych)--Stellenbosch University, 2013.Bibliography
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The issue of masculinity is complex, and many theories on how gender is constructed exist. The central premise of this study is that gender construction is the result of dynamic social interaction and, as such, a post-structuralist paradigm is ascribed to. The concept of multiple masculinities exists to explain the influences different contexts have on how masculine ideas are constructed. This is not a passive process and individuals are considered active creators of their own identity. However, research demonstrates that not all masculinities are equal. Hegemonic masculinity maintains its leading dominant position status through using strategies of power and dominance to maintain the pinnacle position of status in the hierarchy of masculinities. The purpose of this study is to listen to the narratives of pre-adolescent boys about masculinity. Post-structuralist and social constructivist ideas that meaning is fluid and open to change, is influenced by culture and the individual meanings that people make. This understanding provides the theoretical framework for this qualitative study. Through a narrative-inquiry design, meaning was made of the individual experiences of six boys within the context of a single-sex preparatory school. The narratives of these participants, purposively selected, were obtained using the data-collecting methods of interviews, a focus group and the construction of a collage. The analysed data was presented both in the form of the narratives of the participants and through a thematic analysis. The findings indicate that within this private, single-sex preparatory school context, multiple constructions of masculinity are formed, and they all appear to be constructed in relation to hegemonic notions of masculinity. It was found that fathers play an important role in the way in which boys construct their masculine identity. However, their peers and the school context also play a significant role. Further, the findings revealed that although hegemonic notions of masculinity in this context had a powerful impact on these participants’ construction of masculinity, there are indications some are challenging overt expressions of hegemonic masculinity and, as such, hold more complex, transitional constructs of masculine identity.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die kwessie rondom manlikheid is kompleks en daar bestaan baie teorieë oor hoe geslag gebou word. Die sentrale uitgangspunt van hierdie studie is dat die konstruksie van geslag ‘n resultaat van dinamiese sosiale interaksie is en dus aan 'n post-strukturalistiese paradigma toegeskryf word. As sodanig bestaan die konsep van verskeie vorme van manlikheid om te verduidelik hoe verskillende kontekste manlike idees beïnvloed. Dit is nie 'n passiewe proses nie. Individue word as aktiewe skeppers van hulle eie identiteit beskou. Navorsing toon egter dat nie alle vorme van manlikheid gelyk is nie. Hegemoniese manlikheid hou 'n dominante posisie in stand deur die gebruik van strategieë van mag en oorheersing; die hoogsteposisie van status in die hiërargie van manlikheid word dus gestaaf. Die doel van hierdie studie is om na die narratiewe van pre-adolessente seuns oor manlikheid te luister. Post-strukturalistiese en sosiale konstruktivistiese idees wat aandui dat bedoelings vloeibaar en veranderbaar is, afhangende van kultuur en die betekenis wat deur 'n individu daaraan geheg word, voorsien dus 'n teoretiese raamwerk vir hierdie kwalitatiewe studie. Deur die gebruik van ‘n narratiewe ondersoek-ontwerp, is die betekenis van die individuele ervaringe van ses seuns in die konteks van 'n enkel-geslag voorbereidende skool geevalueer. Die verhale van hierdie deelnemers, wat doelgerig geselekteer is, is verkry deur gebruik te maak van onderhoude, 'n fokus groep en die konstruksie van 'n collage as data insamelingsmetodes. Die geanaliseerde data is beide in die vorm van verhale van die deelnemers sowel as 'n tematiese analise aangebied. Die bevindinge dui daarop dat binne hierdie private, enkel-geslag voorbereidende skoolkonteks, verskeie konstruksies van manlikheid gevorm word en het telkens beblyk in verhouding tot hegemoniese idees oor manlikheid gebou te word. Daar is bevind dat vaders 'n belangrike rol speel in die wyse waarop seuns hul manlike identiteit konstrueer. Eweknieë en die skoolkonteks speel egter ook 'n belangrike rol in die konstruksie van geslag. Die bevindinge het verder aan die lig gebring dat, alhoewel hegemoniese idees oor manlikheid in hierdie konteks 'n kragtige uitwerking op hierdie deelnemers se konstruksie van manlikheid het, daar aanduidings is dat sommige van die deelnemers openlike uitdrukkings van hegemoniese manlikheid uitdaag en sodoende meer komplekse oorgang-konstrukte van manlike identiteit het.
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Miracle, Tessa Louise. "Influences of Masculinity on Health Behaviors." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1472231998.
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Fitzpatrick, Berne. "Men in Groups| Attachment and Masculinity." Thesis, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10259251.
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This quantitative study examines how attachment and masculinity influence men in their participation in social groups and support or therapy groups as measured by the ECR-RS (Fraley, Brumbaugh, Heffernan, & Vicary, 2011) and the MRNI-SF (Levant, Hall, & Rankin, 2013). An online survey was given to 308 U.S. male adults asking questions about their attachment to their primary partner, their family of origin, social groups they participate in, support or therapy groups they participate in, and their endorsement of traditional masculine gender norms. The results from this study suggest the following: that men will have the same level of attachment to their family of origin as they do to both romantic dyadic relationships and to social groups they participate in, men are more securely attached the more they participate in groups, more traditionally masculine men are more drawn to competitive type social groups, more traditionally masculine men tend to have a more avoidant attachment to groups, and masculinity endorsement doesn’t affect men’s level of participation in groups. Keywords: men, attachment, masculinity, groups, gender, norms
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Santos, Jose Leonardo. "Evangelical conversion and Latin American masculinity." Ann Arbor, Mich. : ProQuest, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3336817.
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Thesis (Ph.D. in Anthropology)--S.M.U.Title from PDF title page (viewed Mar. 16, 2009). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-12, Section: A. Adviser: Caroline Brettell. Includes bibliographical references.
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Lee, Nancy. "Celebrity chefs: class mobility, media, masculinity." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/11727.
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There is an unprecedented construction of contemporary celebrity unique to the figure of the chef. This thesis considers the position of chefs in celebrity culture, and the construction of a particular kind of authoritative celebrity identity, with an emphasis on empirical research. I examine the effects of celebrity culture on the work of chefs and in terms of gender, taste, and class. I argue that the commercial kitchen is a space that institutionalises masculinity, and that popular media and celebrity culture augment the process of institutionalisation. This thesis also considers the production of economies of cultural capital across different platforms and in different forms. I position social media as a key site that produces global economies of cultural capital, and that facilitates diverse modes of consumption and production of cultural capital. Celebrity culture has altered the way chefs are perceived by consumers and the media. In response to celebrity culture, chefs’ work has moved outside the kitchen and is becoming increasingly abstract. Intellectual labours enable class and social mobility and articulate taste, positioning celebrity chefs as middle class rather than working class. Celebrity chef culture has created what I call the ‘chef economy’, within which restaurants trade on the brand and celebrity status of their chefs. This thesis provides a close examination of celebrity chef culture, drawing on principles of ethnographic research and one-on-one interviews with chefs who have extensive experience working with popular media and have negotiated celebrity culture in their work. My ethnographic approach and empirical research responds to suggestions for more empirical data in celebrity studies (Ferris 2010; Turner 2010b, 2013). Through developing a multimedia, multi-sited ethnography, in addition to in-depth interviews with chefs, I offer a discussion on the changing nature of celebrity culture and the changing labours of the chef.
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Davis, Ian. "Teaching Men: Masculinity, Narrative and Pedagogy." Thesis, Griffith University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367340.
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The Teaching Men project investigates masculinity, narrative and teaching by considering one central question; (How) are male teachers influenced by fictional narratives in the construction of masculinities within education? The exploration of this question is executed using three distinct yet corresponding research activities. Firstly by developing a methodological system of narrative analysis that is able to account for the influence of a fictional text alongside a reading of interview data. Secondly by focusing on a specific cohort of male teachers in order to measure the influence of a fictional text, illustrating possibilities of how masculinity can be enacted within education. Finally by assessing how the narrative nature of critical reflective practice enables the integration of fictional texts, and the literary tropes they contain, both widening and restricting perceptions of teachers and teaching. The work of the project demonstrates how fictional narratives and their encompassing ideologies can become a powerful force in the shaping of our professional identities, in this case as male teachers.
The Teaching Men project has two parallel research streams. The first stream focuses on a collection of 22 fictional narratives drawn from the teacher text genre. Each text describes the world of teachers and teaching from differing perspectives, in differing forms including, literary texts; dramatic works such as plays or musicals; feature films; and television and radio series. The teacher text genre is both popular and prolific; therefore three key criteria have been established to determine inclusion within the project.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Education and Professional Studies
Arts, Education and Law
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Kailing, Danielle W., and Peggy PhD Cantrell. "TRADITIONAL MASCULINITY & ADVERTISING IMAGE APPROVAL." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/191.
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This project investigates the relationship between adherence to traditional masculinity and approval of selected advertising images. Because traditional masculinity includes characteristics supportive of aggression and dominance; I hypothesize that an increase in adherence to traditional masculinity will correlate with approval of the violence found in some print advertisements. Participants include 259 men who completed an anonymous, online, survey. Adherence to masculinity is measured using the Male Role Norm Inventory-Revised (MRNI-R) (Levant, et. al, 2007). Each picture is scored on a 5-point Likert Scale. As hypothesized, an increase in total MRNI-R score, is significantly correlated with an increase in the approval of the depiction of women, men and male/female interactions, with (r=.340, a=0.01) (r=.244, a=0.01) (r=.360, a=0.01), respectively. The results indicate that men reporting adherence to traditional masculinity also see violence in advertising positively. Future research should further examine marketing and its relationship with gender role acquisition, and violence in intimate partners.
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Kumar, Navin. "Negotiating masculinity in male independent escorting." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2016. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/98780/4/Kumar%2C%20Navin_Thesis.pdf.
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Male sex work research has been generally limited to the examination of ‘social problems’. While there have been studies on the occupational aspects, most have neglected the role of masculinity, and therefore research on masculinity in the vocational paradigm of the field is necessary to better contextualize male sex work. Thus, using semi-structured interviews with 20 escorts, this study explored the role of masculinity in understanding the occupational context of male escorting. The thesis shows that male escorting is transitioning toward legitimacy, and more significantly, how masculinity is essential in understanding the occupational features of the field.
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Odom, Randall E. "Understanding and developing biblical manhood." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.
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Carson, Rebecca M. "Black Masculinity and Crime: Towards A Theoretical Lens for Seeing the Connections between Race, Masculinity, and Crime." Ohio : Ohio University, 2007. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1194573373.
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Whitehead, Antony. "Rethinking masculinity : a critical examination of the dynamics of masculinity in the context of an English prison." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.313142.
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Arseneau, Poirier Patrick. "Les représentations de la masculinité dans les productions cinématographiques post-apocalyptiques." Mémoire, Université de Sherbrooke, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11143/6848.
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Résumé : Ce mémoire propose d’étudier les représentations de la masculinité dans les productions cinématographiques post-apocalyptiques. Il consiste plus précisément en une analyse qualitative de contenu qui cible six films et trois séries télévisées, tous réalisés depuis les événements du 11 septembre 2001. Partant du principe que la masculinité hégémonique peut être définie comme le modèle actuel de masculinité idéalisée et imposée, ce mémoire cherche à dégager quels traits de personnalité sont valorisés et lesquels sont dévalués. Les résultats montrent que les représentations de la masculinité sont encore conservatrices : les personnages masculins occupent des rôles plus importants que les personnages féminins et les leaders des groupes restreints sont généralement des hommes blancs, hétérosexuels et âgés de 35 à 44 ans. Cependant, les personnages masculins possèdent une grande variété de traits de personnalités, un changement considérable par rapport aux caractéristiques stéréotypées du Action Hero.Abstract : The following study pursue an analysis of the various representations of masculinity in post-apocalyptic movies and TV-series. It consists more precisely of a qualitative content analysis, which focus on six movies and three TV-Series pilots, all produced since September 11th 2001. Assuming that hegemonic masculinity can be defined as the current model of imposed and idealized masculinity, this paper seeks to identify which personality traits are valued and which ones are devalued. The results show that the representations of masculinity are still conservative: the male characters occupy more important roles than female characters and leaders of small groups are usually white, heterosexual men aged 35 to 44 years. However, the male characters have a variety of personality traits, a considerable change from the stereotypical characteristics of the Action Hero.
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Willocks, Remy M. "Masculinity on Every Channel: The Development and Demonstration of American Masculinity of the Postwar Period via 1960s Television." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1574024599256381.
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Byrd, Anne S. "Dominant Masculinity Construction in a Motorcycle Club." Thesis, Fielding Graduate University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10624207.
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This study uses life-history interviews with militarized men to describe a version of masculinity constructed in the local context of a non-profit motorcycle club. The study describes the details of one group’s specific gender nature, the result of which expands and challenges our understanding of the masculinity master narrative. The findings establish that both hegemonic and nonhegemonic attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors co-exist in the local dominant masculine norm, thereby disrupting traditional distinctions of masculinity as being either hegemonic or nonhegemonic. Key future research implications support the study of context as essential to the study of gender construction, challenge descriptions of masculinity as being either hegemonic or nonhegemonic, and posit the relevance of veteran peer groups in supporting post-military resocialization.
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Gollins, Tim. "Understanding male carers: masculinity caring and age." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.485210.
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Research on carers has shown that, whilst there are often significant differences between men and women in terms of activity and intensity within filial and sibling caring relationships, the respective contributions ofmale and female spousal carers are very similar. Nevertheless, despite feminist considerations of the informal caring that men do, the qualitative experience ofmale carers has not received the same in-depth examination as that offemale carers. This thesis explores the way in which thirty men, identified as carers for their spouse, construct their understanding ofcaring and masculinity. The influence ofageing and retirement in this process are also considered. Fifty-nine qualitative interviews were gathered and analysed using feminist approaches -premised on the co-procluction of knowledge. The theoretical framework of the study prioritised the agency ofindividual male carers, albeit constrained by material realities of an ageing body, and retirement. The thesis offers a new framework for understanding the way men undertake informal caring activities for their spouse and the emotional as well as practical significance ofinformal caring for them. An important aspect ofthe framework is that it describes how men, who begin to care for their spouse informally, often do so without an awareness ofneed and the practical caring skills they require to care holistically: Older men, however, particularly when they have experienced their own health problems, show greater responsiveness to their wife, enabling a more holistic caring relationship to develop. The framework also shows how this transition is influenced by male carers' interaction with health care professionals, support groups, family, and friends. Finally, the study points to potential topics for future research, particularly the relationship between masculinity, ageing and life course. It also confirms the conclusions ofrecent theoretical research on men and masculinity that suggests the importance oflooking at men's everyday practices, and not just focussing on men's hegemonic behaviours, because after all, men do not always behave in hegemonic ways, but men are always gendered.
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Hall, Mark M. "The Journey is the Destination: Pursuing Masculinity." NCSU, 2004. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-05182004-174611/.
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This thesis examines the influence of male homosocial relationships on the masculine identity performances men develop in such relationships. Specifically, I argue that three American novels?Herman Melville?s Moby-Dick, Jack Kerouac?s On the Road, and Chuck Palahniuk?s Fight Club?illustrate a similar pattern of masculine identity performance and (re)construction. In each novel, the narrator initially experiences a masculine identity crisis. In order to resolve his crisis, he engages in homosocial relationships that refine and reaffirm his masculinity. Furthermore, each narrator examines and reports the life of another man?a man obsessed with a single-minded pursuit. Ishmael of Moby-Dick narrates the events of a whaling voyage led by the Moby Dick-obsessed Captain Ahab. Sal Paradise of On the Road recites the adventures he has on the road following the IT-obsessed Dean Moriarty. And, the unnamed narrator of Fight Club explains the development of Fight Club and Project Mayhem by the revolution-obsessed Tyler Durden. As I reveal, hunting for Moby Dick, traveling the road, fighting each other and terrorizing capitalistic society all represent pursuits of manhood and ways of constructing, performing, and asserting masculinities. By joining these pursuits, the narrators forfeit their agency to these obsessed men; however, as the narrators continue to follow, they realize that to regain their masculine identities they must also eventually establish agency in their lives. Ultimately, the pattern illustrated in this thesis involves the continual remasculation of an emasculated man?or a man under threat of becoming so?through purpose-oriented homosocial relationships and an assertion of agency.
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Oliver, Andrea E. E. "Constructions of Masculinity in Late Medieval England." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.520420.
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McKenzie, Callum Campbell. "Masculinity, morality and hunting, c.1850-1950." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2004. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=21519.
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The moral imperatives of hunting have long been associated with masculinity. In Britain's age of High Imperialism, hunting assumed greater importance as a 'right of passage' necessary for personal assertion and imperial stability. For proponents, killing wildlife for sport was a 'natural' process which illustrated the ethnocentric and cultural superiority of British upper class men over various "others". This 'pre-eminence' manifested itself through 'male' institutions including elite education, church, army and hunting clubs and found wider expression through hunting books and museums. Dissidents from this pleasing masculinity railed at the celebration of hunting as 'character' training, in particular, the 'objectification' of animals for 'sport'. The ubiquity of the hunting image in the age of High Imperialism, however, was evidence of hunting's popularity as a 'maker of men' despite the concerns of humanitarians.
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Jalas, Kristiina Eeva Maria. "Psychoanalysis and lesbian 'masculinity' : a theoretical study." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.399352.
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Matheson, Neil. "The traumatised male : Dada, surrealism and masculinity." Thesis, University of Kent, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.246594.
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Shail, Robert Simon. "Constructions of masculinity in 1960s British cinema." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.248479.
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Housiaux, Kathryn Margaret Louise. "Re-conceptualising consumption : a geography of masculinity." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.297871.
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Schmiedl, Dominic. "Crisis and Masculinity on Contemporary Cable Television." Doctoral thesis, Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2015. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-176166.
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Both the “crisis of masculinity” and “quality TV” have been popular discourses in academia in recent years. Many of these contemporary quality TV series feature male anti-heroes at the center of their narratives. This dissertation argues that the constructions of masculinity in series such as "Breaking Bad" and "The Walking Dead" are informed by the Western hero.
Furthermore, the dissertation links this recourse to an arguably outmoded model of masculinity to recent crisis tendencies in the USA, most notably the recent economic downturn and the aftermath of September 11 2001. Moreover, the return of the Western hero can be understood as a process of remasculinization in light of the crisis of masculinity.
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Salter, Gregory. "Domesticity and masculinity in 1950s British painting." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2013. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/48105/.
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This thesis examines how men experienced domesticity in the 1950s in Britain and analyses the role that artistic representations play in the expression and formulation of this masculine selfhood in this context. It considers domesticity at this historical moment as an inherently flexible concept: one that takes in the private spaces of the home as well as more public realms and aspects beyond it, and includes a variety of relationships, both familial and non-familial. At the same time, it highlights the social structures surrounding domesticity in Britain at this time – exemplified by the policies and aims of the welfare state and post-war reconstruction, and their reflection in institutions and social beliefs – particularly their assumptions about specific gender roles, particularly in relation to masculinity, in the context of the family, sexuality and work. As a result, my thesis examines how four male artists operated in this context – as individuals negotiating particular identifications of masculine selfhood within their own private and unstable conceptions of domesticity, in relation to, and sometimes at odds with, the public social structures in Britain around them. It focuses on the art of four male artists working in Britain in the immediate post-war period: John Bratby, Francis Bacon, Keith Vaughan and Victor Pasmore. By placing their work in a wide social and cultural context, including social history, sociology, psychoanalysis, literature, and the popular press, this thesis significantly expands the academic work on modern art in Britain after the Second World War. Furthermore, it begins to interrogate and expand on the relationship between art, domesticity, selfhood, and, more broadly, everyday life. By focusing on the ways in which art and life interact in the work of these artists, it argues that artistic representations, for these artists at this historical moment, serve as ways to negotiate the unstable and seemingly impossible task of selfhood, within the expansive, fluctuating realms of domesticity.
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Jachimiak, Peter. "Middle management and the enactment of masculinity." Thesis, University of South Wales, 2002. https://pure.southwales.ac.uk/en/studentthesis/middle-management-and-the-enactment-of-masculinity(8055911d-3612-4f34-90f5-4887cf7c02dd).html.
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Adopting a radically diverse organisation studies approach that embraces a Cultural Studies analytical framework, this thesis examines the ways in which today's middle managers enact masculinity. Considering the gender-orientated 'ways of being' of a middle manager within a contemporary organisational environment, the research gives equal credence to space, language and the body - termed Locations of Enactment - at a time when masculinity (and even middle management) is thought to be 'in crisis'. Focusing, primarily, upon a single case-study - a local authority social services department that provides child-care for a homogenous South Wales community (Wood Valley) - the research is placed within its contemporaneous social, cultural and organisational context: a public sector that, as it is currently experiencing severe staff recruitment and retention difficulties, can be deemed to be 'in crisis' also. Utilising a grounded theory methodology that acknowledges both the research setting and the data itself as 'organic' entities, the middle managers of Wood Valley are understood to be dynamic organisational players who, on a daily basis, attempt to balance their work duties with their home responsibilities. As middle managers they are perceived to be 'in the middle' in a multitude of ways: they are 'in the middle' of an organisational hierarchy; they operate as intermediaries 'between' Wood Valley and outside agencies; they are middle managers who are precariously placed between the working-classes (whom they have distanced themselves from through social mobility) and the middle-classes (as their blatant attempts to prove their worthiness within that strata only heightens their 'anxious' bodily display). Furthermore, as middle-class 'bureaucrats' who work and live among a staunchly working-class community, the middle managers of Wood Valley often find themselves singled-out and scathingly criticised as socially and culturally 'different'. With this in mind this thesis insists that, as an increasing number of individuals are finding themselves employed within white-collar administrative posts, middle managers deserve to find themselves the focus of studies that are determined 'to put the humans back into organisation studies'.
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Muir, Grant. "Masculinity and sexual coercion : a paradoxical relationship." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/14260.
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Previous work on masculinity and sexual coercion has proposed either that sexual coercion is an expression of a traditional ideology of masculinity, or that sexual coercion is a resource in the construction of masculinity. That is, they have proposed that masculinity is either cognitive or strategic. It is proposed, in this thesis, that these viewpoints should be integrated and that masculinity should be thought of as both cognitive and strategic. Using the SIDE (Social Identity Definition and Enactment) model as a framework, there would, in relation to masculinity and sexual coercion, seem to be a paradox. That is, on the one hand, traditional masculinity is associated with the inclination to be sexually coercive, that there is a traditional ideology of masculinity which people internalise and which influences their behaviour. However, on the other hand, the actual expression of sexual coercion undermines masculinity. That is, men who engage in sexual coercion are perceived, by other men, as abusing their power and as less masculine, as not real men. Five studies are presented which support this notion of a paradox. However, this paradox is slightly different to that originally proposed. Rather than it being the case that men who most endorse traditional masculinity being those who most endorse coercion against women, it is those who we describe as being 'insecure' in their traditional masculinity who are most inclined to be coercive. A further two studies are presented which working from a basic assumption of this thesis, that the relationship between men and women is a relationship of unequal power consider, firstly, when the paradox might arise and shows that a challenge by a woman is perceived as a threat to masculinity. Secondly, in addressing how men might resolve the paradox, the final study considers the contexts in which coercion might be enacted and shows that when a challenge engenders feelings of threat to masculinity, this may translated into the enactment of sexual coercion, but only in a private context. The implications of this research and possible future directions are discussed.
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Matlebyane, Keketso. "Negotiating masculinity: Experiences of black gay men." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/65583.
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South Africa’s progressive Constitution remains at the forefront of legislation within the African continent, which emphasise inclusion, freedom and societal acceptance. This social advancement led to the adoption of the Civil Union Act in 2006. This made South Africa one of the first countries to recognise same-sex marriage as well as to bar discrimination based on sexual orientation. Although the Act expresses ideals which strive for human dignity and respect, incidences of hate crimes and discrimination towards members of the LGBTI community still occur. Sexual orientation continues to be considered a taboo subject, which is often fueled by unsettling stereotypes that justify discrimination against sexual minority groups. Black gay men are a minority based on their race and sexual orientation, this study analyses how they perceive gender and masculinity in particular. The research questions analyse the role of socialisation and other social institutions in shaping ideas pertaining to masculinity through the life-stages of the participants beginning from boyhood until young adulthood. Masculinity is analysed using contextual tools – which describe sexuality and gender within the South African context, and conceptual tools – which provide theoretical explanations relating to masculinity and sexuality. Masculinity will be explored as a dynamic and contextual social construct, which is learned and performed according to one’s personal experiences and upbringing. Qualitative research methods were utilised in the form of focus group discussions and supplemented through semistructured interviews for detailed narratives on the experiences of the participants. The research findings reveal the important role, which primary socialisation agents possess in shaping an individual’s understanding of gender and sexuality. The image of a “good black man” remains entrenched in heteronormative ideals, which reinforce homophobic, religious and conservative views. South Africa may have a liberal Constitution but the reality of “coming out” is not without its challenges.Mini Dissertation (MSocSci)--University of Pretoria, 2017.
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Luyt, Russell. "Hegemonic masculinity and aggression in South Africa." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7938.
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This thesis explores 'Hegemonic Masculinity and Aggression in South Africa'. It incorporates three separate, but sequential research parts, each building on the findings of the previous part in order to realise general research aims.