Journal articles: 'Masculinity in literature'

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Hobbs, Alex. "Masculinity Studies and Literature." Literature Compass 10, no. 4 (March 19, 2013): 383–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/lic3.12057.

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Idle, Jeremy. "McIlvanney, masculinity and Scottish literature." Scottish Affairs 2 (First Series, no. 1 (February 1993): 50–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/scot.1993.0008.

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Ahmadi, Anas. "Maskulinitas dalam sastra dan agama di Tiongkok." Masyarakat, Kebudayaan dan Politik 30, no. 2 (June 15, 2017): 103. http://dx.doi.org/10.20473/mkp.v30i22017.103-113.

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This study aims to describe masculinity in literature and religion of China. The focus of this study are (1) how is the representation of masculinity in literature and religion in China, (2) how is the representation of the other side of masculinity literature and religion in China, and (3) how is masculinity literature and religion in relation to the relevance of social life in China nowaday. The theory used in this study is masculinity. This study used a qualitative descriptive method-style narrative and autoethnography exposure. Source of data used in the form of (1) literature study classical Chinese literature (Journey to the West, Story Classical Ming Dynasty, and The Plum in the Golden Vase or, CHIN P ‘ING MEI Volume 1: The Gathering) and (2) autoethnography. The results show that masculinity in literature and religion in China is very strong. Masculinity in literature and religion in China comes in the form of leadership, courage, and responsibility; (2) the other side of masculinity literature and religion in China, namely concubinage and dominance in leadership; and (3) the masculinity literature and religion in relation to the relevance of public life represented that China upholds masculinity that looked at the country’s leadership, the leadership of the household, and religious leadership.

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E, Pavithra, and R. L. N. Raju. "Tribal Masculinity: An Alternative of Anti-ecological Masculinity." World Journal of English Language 14, no. 2 (January 19, 2024): 253. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/wjel.v14n2p253.

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Masculinity is considered as behavior and attributes expected out of men. It is a socially constructed concept that is shaped by gender roles, societal expectations, and power dynamics that vary across cultures and historical periods. The studies concerning men, masculinity, and nature relations emerged as a response to the essentialized notion of associating men with culture, patriarchy, oppression, and women with nature, rather than focusing on the complexity of masculinities and their relation with nature. Further, Ecomasculinity and Ecological masculinism are Western concepts and frameworks that evolved out of the studies concerning men-nature relationships. Considering the plurality of masculinity and the nuances of men-nature relationships, this paper explores the intersection of men, masculinity, and nature in Tribal society in the context of South India. The study employs textual analysis as a method to explore men-nature relationships. The text considered for the analysis is the novel Huntsman by Lakshmi Saravanakumar, translated into English by Aswini Kumar. The novel presents an indigenous tribal society rooted in the forest with interpersonal connections between humans and non-humans. The paper demonstrates how the concept of Home, Indigeneity, and life in tribal society caters to the construction of the notion of masculinity, which emphasizes caring attitudes toward nature. The perspective of indigenous society challenges the traditional notion of masculinity as dominant and oppressive. This paper argues that masculine discourse in Tribal society is counter-hegemonic, and is built on caring towards humans and nonhumans rather than domination.

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Sri Harianti, Winda. "Social Construct of Masculinity Towards Mental Health: A Literature Review." European Journal of Behavioral Sciences 6, no. 3 (August 17, 2023): 69–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.33422/ejbs.v6i3.1103.

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Masculinity is trait that exist in both male and female. However, masculinity values develop into social constructs affecting various aspects of life, one of which is mental health. It is important to understand how individuals internalize the construct that contributes to their psychological dynamics. This study aims to determine the impact of masculinity construct and the role of mental health literacy on mental health through a literature review. The results show that some aspects in the construct of masculinity, such as self-reliance, dominance, and emotional restraint, inhibit people’s mental health behavior, such as decreasing help-seeking behavior and self-disclosure, and increasing maladaptive coping. However, another study reports that the masculinity construct also affects women as well as men and the related studies remain very limited. It is imperative to improve mental health awareness that is sensitive to the influence of gender roles and its impacts on mental health.

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O'BRIEN, CORMAC. "Rethinking Masculinity." Theatre Research International 36, no. 3 (August 30, 2011): 286–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s030788331100054x.

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Authentic Irish manhood has long been the concern of several self-appointed vanguards. However, just exactly what may constitute authentic Irish manhood has not, until quite recently, been the subject of serious critical and theoretical reflection. Moreover, Irish playwriting (and theatre production) has a notoriously male-dominated history. Because of this masculinist and often misogynistic slant to Irish theatre writing, there is a sense, for the masculinities scholar at least, that any piece of erudite theatre scholarship can make critical inroads into the deconstruction of Irish masculinity in performance.

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Goldhill, Simon. "MASCULINITY." Classical Review 54, no. 2 (October 2004): 437–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cr/54.2.437.

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Palmer, Jamie L. "Ineffective Masculinity." Men and Masculinities 21, no. 4 (March 13, 2017): 455–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1097184x17696184.

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Advancing literature on Cuban–American relations through an analysis grounded in hegemonic and relational, or “subordinate” masculinities, this work explores representations of Cuban male leaders in the US media. Using ethnographic content analysis to examine 763 articles on Cuba from 1959 to 2010 in Time and Newsweek, data reveal narratives of ineffective masculinity as articulated through emergent themes and images that portray Cuban men involved in the revolutionary or political process as (a) simultaneously hypermasculine, that is, motivated by anger, violence, or idealism and (b) hypomasculine or displaying inadequacies in either their professional efforts and/or their physical characteristics. The findings supported by ineffective masculinity add to the literature by recognizing that these male leaders are deemed deficient; however, this deficiency does not rely on tropes of femininity. It is through this analysis that one may recognize the ways in which representations of Cuban male leaders may relate but differ from portraits of other nonwhite men. These findings might reasonably pave the way for possible variations in portrayals of “ineffective masculinity” and hegemonic masculinity where future research may question what role the trope ineffective masculinity may have on the maintenance of racial inequalities and ideologies especially of men of color in international relations with the United States.

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Todorova, Marija. "Beyond (Hyper)Masculinity." Boyhood Studies 15, no. 1-2 (December 1, 2022): 154–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/bhs.2022.15010210.

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This article gives an outline of stereotypical representation of the Balkans as a predominantly violent culture that legitimizes violence through the lenses of (hyper)masculinized characters represented in Croatian literature for young adults selected for translation into English. A representation of this stereotypical image can be found in one of the most recent translations of a contemporary novel for children from Croatia, Odohohol and Cally Rascal by Matko Sršen. Meanwhile, the second case study of this article focuses on the analysis of translated young adult literature that promotes or contests violent masculinities. The novel The Teacher of My Dreams by Miro Gavran portrays a more complex image of masculinity from the Western Balkans, promoting a depiction of an emotional, intellectual, and rational male.

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Larson, Jennifer. "Paul's Masculinity." Journal of Biblical Literature 123, no. 1 (2004): 85. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3268551.

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Potter, Troy. "(Re)constructing Masculinity: Representations of Men and Masculinity in Australian Young Adult Literature." Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature 17, no. 1 (May 1, 2007): 28–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.21153/pecl2007vol17no1art1203.

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In this essay, I analyse how the representation of masculine discourses, and the dialogic processes at work between those present (or absent) function to support, to undermine or to challenge the current hegemonic masculinity in two Australian Young Adult realist texts, David Metzenthen's Boys of Blood and Bone (2004) and Scot Gardner's Burning Eddy (2003). While various and viable masculine schemata, and the dialectical relations between them, may exist in society and be represented within a text, I argue that the masculine constructions which are represented and privileged in the chosen two texts ultimately perpetuate and support normative hegemonic masculinity, that is, masculinity which can be characterised by heterosexuality, a desire for mateship, a sense of responsibility or duty, actual or implicit misogyny, and an inability or unwillingness to express emotion and taciturnity (Romøren and Stephens 2002, p.220).

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Bal, Mieke, and Peter Schwenger. "Phallic Critiques: Masculinity and Twentieth Century Literature." Poetics Today 6, no. 1/2 (1985): 327. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1772142.

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Wolski, Paweł. "Excessive Masculinity: Boxer Narratives in Holocaust Literature." Teksty Drugie 2 (2017): 209–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.18318/td.2017.en.2.13.

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Lemon, Jennifer. "Masculinity in Crisis?" Agenda, no. 24 (1995): 61. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4065897.

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Horlacher, Stefan. "“In Reality Every Reader Is, While He Is Reading, the Reader of His Own Self”: Reconsidering the Importance of Narrative and Savoir Littéraire for Masculinity Studies." Men and Masculinities 22, no. 1 (March 12, 2019): 75–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1097184x18805554.

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Given the strong emphasis on plurality, which is so characteristic of current masculinity studies, the relationship between masculinity as a concept and its plural forms has to be rethought. If we conceive of masculinity as having a largely discursive and narrative structure and accept that narrative is an ontological condition of social life which exemplarily manifests itself in literature and the arts, it is precisely here that a plethora of narratives of masculinity becomes ‘visible’, with the performative function of narrative allowing for a variety of new masculine gender identities and subject positions that only become available through their conception in literature/the arts.

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Puspitasari, Diana, Yudi Suryadi, and Hinano Kumasaka. "Yakuza Masculinity: Marginalized Hegemonic in Gokusen Manga." Eralingua: Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa Asing dan Sastra 7, no. 1 (April 4, 2023): 78. http://dx.doi.org/10.26858/eralingua.v7i1.37446.

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Abstract. Masculinity is a construction formed by society because of the expectations of men in society, so various forms of masculinity emerge. The Yakuza group is a group that is very synonymous with masculinity and is even referred to as the world of men. However, in reality, their masculine form shackles them in social interaction. The purpose of this study is to describe the forms of Yakuza masculinity so that there will be visible differences in the forms of masculinity between Yakuza and society in general. Yakuza masculinity has a general concept of masculinity, or is called hegemonic masculinity. However, forms of masculinity that are too extreme make their masculinity marginal. That happens because of differences in the interpretation of masculinity by society toward certain groups. The data is from images and dialogues representing Yakuza forms of masculinity in Gokusen manga. Data collection used a literature review technique, and data analysis used a qualitative descriptive technique. The findings suggest that masculinity owned by the Yakuza group represents a form of hegemonic masculinity, but the form of masculinity becomes a problem for its existence. The form of masculinity has a dual identity as a tool of legitimacy and a means of subordination to individuals and groupsKeywords: Hegemonic, Marginal Masculinity, Masculinity, Yakuza Masculinity, Yakuza

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Haralson, Eric L. "Mars in Petticoats: Longfellow and Sentimental Masculinity." Nineteenth-Century Literature 51, no. 3 (December 1, 1996): 327–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2934014.

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From "A Psalm of Life" and "The Village Blacksmith" to Evangeline and The Song of Hiawatha, Longfellow provided middle-class Americans with models of self-comportment and means for coping with the anxieties and stresses of a commercial society on the move. Mixing tones of melancholy and patient resolution, the poetry served to attenuate polarized gender roles and, especially, to authorize a sentimental or domestic style of masculinity in opposition to more aggresive, competitive, business-oriented modes of "manliness." Though this body of verse employs martial imagery and masculinist terms in order to evoke the tenor of mind and will required by an increasingly complex socioeconomic environment, Longfellow converts these images and terms to elaborate a "feminized" ideal of personal and social behavior: sublimative, spiritualized, quietly persistent. The figure of Evangeline crosses gender lines to instruct both men and women how to bear up under the burden of American "modernity," while that of Hiawatha blends gender traits to embody a soft-but-still-manly masculinity, with implications for both heterosexual and homosocial relations. The efficacy and the very premises of Longfellow's cultural service, which secured his enormous popularity in the antebellum period, were called into question with the advent of realist antisentimentalism, and the poet's work suffered permanent devaluation under the canons of the modernist taste.

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Connor, Sandra, Kristina Edvardsson, Christopher Fisher, and Evelien Spelten. "Perceptions and Interpretation of Contemporary Masculinities in Western Culture: A Systematic Review." American Journal of Men's Health 15, no. 6 (November 2021): 155798832110610. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/15579883211061009.

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The social construct of masculinity evolves in response to changes in society and culture. Orthodox masculinity is mostly considered to be hegemonic and is evidenced by the dominance of men over women and other, less powerful men. Contemporary shifts in masculinity have seen an emergence of new masculinities that challenge traditional male stereotypes. This systematic review aims to review and synthesize the existing empirical research on contemporary masculinities and to conceptualize how they are understood and interpreted by men themselves. A literature search was undertaken on 10 databases using terms regularly used to identify various contemporary masculinities. Analysis of the 33 included studies identified four key elements that are evident in men’s descriptions of contemporary masculinity. These four elements, (a) Inclusivity, (b) Emotional Intimacy, (c) Physicality, and (d) Resistance, are consistent with the literature describing contemporary masculinities, including Hybrid Masculinities and Inclusive Masculinity Theory. The synthesized findings indicate that young, middle-class, heterosexual men in Western cultures, while still demonstrating some traditional masculinity norms, appear to be adopting some aspects of contemporary masculinities. The theories of hybrid and inclusive masculinity suggest these types of masculinities have several benefits for both men and society in general.

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Burke, Kelsy, and Trenton M. Haltom. "Created by god and wired to porn: Redemptive Masculinity and Gender Beliefs in Narratives of Religious Men’s Pornography Addiction Recovery." Gender & Society 34, no. 2 (March 19, 2020): 233–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0891243220905815.

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The literature on hybrid masculinity suggests that some men manage subordinate or contradictory forms of masculinity while still maintaining and benefiting from gender inequality. Drawing from 35 in-depth qualitative interviews with religious participants in pornography addiction recovery programs, we expand this literature by illustrating how hybrid masculinity operates through shared cultural knowledge about sex, gender, and sexuality. We find that participants use distinct cultural schemas related to religion and science to explain how men are created by God to be biologically “hard-wired” for pornography addiction. We use the phrase redemptive masculinity to describe a type of hybrid masculinity that upholds the cultural association between hegemonic masculinity and pornography consumption, but allows religious men to describe their avoidance of pornography as a masculine feat. Redemptive masculinity depends upon particular beliefs about gender that give advantage to the religious men who work to overcome pornography addiction. We show how their stories reinforce essentialist differences between male and female bodies that protect the interests and sexual expressions of religious men. In turn, we show how hybrid masculinities may involve gender-flexible practices for men but also how these may ultimately reinforce strict and inflexible beliefs about so-called “opposite” sexes.

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MacDonald, Cheryl A. "Masculinity and Sport Revisted: A Review of Literature on Hegemonic Masculinity and Men's Ice Hockey in Canada." Canadian Graduate Journal of Sociology and Criminology 3, no. 1 (April 2, 2014): 95–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.15353/cgjsc.v3i1.3764.

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Ice hockey is particularly significant in Canada as it acts as a primary site of socialization for boys and men. This form of socialization raises questions about masculinity on the public agenda in terms of the problematic nature of hypermasculinity in sport, stereotypical images of athletes, and questions of social responsibility as both men and athletes. These issues are presently relevant as Canada (and perhaps all of North America) finds itself in an era characterized by accounts in mainstream media of competitive athletes’ cavalier lifestyles, hazing, violence, homophobia, drug addictions, and suicides. This review of literature uses secondary research to problematize masculinity in the ice hockey context by presenting the overarching claim that male hockey players are hegemonically masculine individuals. The piece begins by defining Australian sociologist R.W. Connell’s (1987) concept of hegemonic masculinity and situating it in the contemporary academic context. Next, it offers an overview of relevant literature on masculinity and sport along with a concise examination of scholarly work on the relationship between hegemonic masculinity and ice hockey in Canada. It concludes by summarising calls for further research in the literature and by suggesting approaches to future studies in the field.

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Conway, Colleen. "Gender and Divine Relativity in Philo of Alexandria." Journal for the Study of Judaism 34, no. 4 (2003): 471–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157006303772777053.

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AbstractPhilo's apparent divinization of Moses is considered vis-à-vis ancient conceptions of gender. Philo's Moses is a perfect illustration of the ideology of masculinity evident in a wide range of Greco-Roman literature. Moreover, with Philo's Moses, perfect masculinity is commensurate with divinity, but both remain relative to the "asexual masculinity" of God.

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Pease, Bob. "Recreating Men’s Relationship with Nature: Toward a Profeminist Environmentalism." Men and Masculinities 22, no. 1 (March 12, 2019): 113–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1097184x18805566.

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While feminist and profeminist scholars are increasingly in agreement with the thesis that hegemonic and destructive forms of masculinity are the source of current environmental crises, there is less agreement on how to address this issue or on the way forward for ecologically conscious and profeminist men. Some forms of ecofeminism essentialize women as being closer to nature than men, while arguing that men are closer to culture. There seems little capacity for men to change in this view. In a parallel development, some ecomasculinity theorists argue that the problem is not with the nature of masculinity per se but with the separation of men’s natural maleness from forms of masculinity that suppress their infinite capacity to care. It will be argued that such latter approaches espouse either an ecofeminine or ecomasculinist perspective rather than a social ecofeminist view. This article will explore the implications of the social ecofeminist critique (or what some writers refer to as feminist environmentalism) for understanding socially constructed masculinism, and what men can do about it, in the context of the social divisions between men across the world.

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Page, Jamie. "Masculinity and Prostitution in Late Medieval German Literature." Speculum 94, no. 3 (July 2019): 739–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/703557.

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Shek, Yen. "Asian American Masculinity: A Review of the Literature." Journal of Men's Studies 14, no. 3 (April 1, 2006): 379–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.3149/jms.1403.379.

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Salamone, Frank. "The Depiction of Masculinity in Classic Nigerian Literature." Journal of the African Literature Association 1, no. 1 (January 2006): 202–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21674736.2006.11690036.

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Watson, Wallace Steadman. "Conrad and Masculinity (review)." Conradiana 39, no. 1 (2007): 87–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cnd.2007.0010.

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Zhu, Qinxuan. "Cultivating "Masculinity": Where Does China's Anxiety about Masculinity Come From?" Communications in Humanities Research 28, no. 1 (April 19, 2024): 8–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.54254/2753-7064/28/20230006.

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China's Education Minister recently called for educating teenagers to be "masculine" by highlighting the "crisis of masculinity." This paper intends to examine the causes and impact of this initiative by exploring the cultural and societal factors. Drawing on academic literature, media reports, and government policy documents, the paper identifies the main causes of anxiety in China about masculinity from two perspectives: 1) The increasing participation of Chinese women in the workplace and 2) The trend of feminization and its relationship to collectivism. Finally, the paper discusses the negative consequences of overemphasizing the "crisis of masculinity" in China, particularly on mental health issues, domestic violence, and gender stereotypes. This paper offers insights into promoting a more diverse and inclusive gender-equal society.

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Berggren, Kalle. "Sticky Masculinity." Men and Masculinities 17, no. 3 (June 13, 2014): 231–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1097184x14539510.

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Mendoza Pérez, Karmele, and Marta Morgade Salgado. "Doing Masculinity." Men and Masculinities 21, no. 3 (January 22, 2018): 403–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1097184x17748169.

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The aim of this article is to engage with unaccompanied migrant Maghrebi boys’ styles of physical self-presentation, “looks,” and hairstyles as a source of knowledge on the construction of masculinities. In order to observe such bodily expressive practices, we used general ethnographic methodology and, in particular, a workshop built around different artistic techniques. Since masculinity is inextricably defined in relation to specific agents and contexts, insights into unaccompanied migrant teenagers’ enactments of masculinity are dependent on (1) the collective imagination lying behind such “looks” and bodily images, (2) the discomfort and tensions created in the institutional communities in which these minors live—especially among social workers, and (3) the dialogue and relationships that emerge between the aesthetic and bodily expressions of these young migrants’ own culture and those of the other cultural groups that coexist, in our case, in a European city.

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Bark Persson, Anna. "Home and Hell." lambda nordica 25, no. 2 (October 26, 2020): 68–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.34041/ln.v25.675.

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The aim of this article is to examine the representation of female masculinity in genre literature. Reading female masculinity as queer embodiment, I put two science fictional texts driven by a typical action narrative in dialogue with earlier research on representations of female masculinity in literature and popular culture to demonstrate the importance of bringing the genre of the text into the analysis when examining female masculinity. In the article, I use the connection between female masculinity and tragedy as my starting point to exemplify how the genre of a text shapes the depiction and reading of female masculinity. In the action-driven science fiction texts I study, this link is very much present, but tragedy is given another role to play. Instead of being an element in the constitution of gender non-conforming as an unlivable experience, the representation of these masculine female heroes as oriented away from heteronormative constructions of a good life (Ahmed 2006) makes possible the depiction of these women as masculine, as well as the glorification of their gender non-conformity within the framework of the action-based SF narrative.

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Horlacher, Stefan. "“From the idea that the self is not given to us...”." Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur 43, no. 2 (November 6, 2018): 327–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/iasl-2018-0016.

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Abstract One of the consequences of emphasizing plurality – so characteristic for current masculinity studies – is that the question of commonalities and similarities of masculinities has been neglected, and therefore the relationship between masculinity as a concept and its plural forms has to be rethought. One way of doing this involves conceiving of masculinity as having a largely discursive or narrative structure and focusing on the relationality and interdependency of masculinities by paying special attention to stories and genres as their paramount components. If one takes narrative to be an ontological condition of social life which exemplarily manifests itself in literature and the arts, it is precisely here that a plethora of narratives of masculinity becomes ‘visible’ in a reading process that can be conceptualized as an act of imagining and a process of transfer during which readers perpetually ‘stage’ themselves, while the performative function of narrative allows for a variety of new masculine gender identities that become available through their very conception in literature/art. Combining comparative masculinity studies with the concept of narrative paves the way for a new, more encompassing, relational and intersectional understanding, if not definition of masculinity.

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Laluna, Fadila Rana, Muhammad Suryadi, Sukarjo Waluyo, and Michael Kevin Bryan Sahertian. "Hubungan nilai budaya suku Batak dengan ideologi patriarki pada karakter pria dalam film Ngeri-Ngeri Sedap." Diglosia: Jurnal Kajian Bahasa, Sastra, dan Pengajarannya 7, no. 2 (June 2, 2024): 259–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.30872/diglosia.v7i2.970.

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This research was carried out to understand the relationship between Batak cultural values and patriarchal ideology, which is reflected in the masculinity of the male characters (Mr. Domu, Domu, Gabe, and Sahat) in the film Ngeri-Ngeri Sedap, directed by Bene Dion Rajagukguk. This research was carried out based on interpreting the emerging patriarchal ideology in the film Ngeri-Ngeri Sedap through signs of masculinity of male characters who live in Toba, North Sumatra, or those who choose to emigrate. The method used in this research is a qualitative approach through the sociology of literature and gender (masculinity) and literature study. The theory used in analyzing this film is the theory of masculinity by Tuncay. The results found are that there is a relationship between patriarchal ideology, which is reflected through the masculinity of male characters in films, and Batak cultural values. Individuals who live their lives with strong Batak cultural values almost every day will have a higher level of masculinity, which will result in a stronger patriarchal ideology that they display. Meanwhile, individuals who live a life with strong Batak cultural values will show less of their patriarchal ideology to those around them.

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Hickey-Moody, Anna, and Timothy Laurie. "GEOPHILOSOPHIES OF MASCULINITY." Angelaki 20, no. 1 (January 2, 2015): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0969725x.2015.1017359.

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Hickey-Moody, Anna. "CARBON FIBRE MASCULINITY." Angelaki 20, no. 1 (January 2, 2015): 139–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0969725x.2015.1017394.

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Wardani Putri, Thalia Aurora, Muhlis Fajar Wicaksana, and Wahyu Dini Septiari. "KONSTRUKSI MASKULINITAS DALAM FILM MIRACLE IN CELL NO. 7 SERTA PEMANFATAANYA DALAM PEMBELAJARAN SASTRA." INDONESIA: Jurnal Pembelajaran Bahasa dan Sastra Indonesia 5, no. 2 (June 4, 2024): 285. http://dx.doi.org/10.59562/indonesia.v5i2.61257.

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This research aims to describe the construction of masculinity in the main character in the Indonesian version of Miracle in Cell No. 7 and its utilization in literature learning. This research uses the descriptive-qualitative method; the data obtained is obtained through listening and note-taking techniques, then classified in the form of notes and documented in the form of screenshots. Data analysis in this research uses content analysis techniques. The results of this study reveal that the construction of masculinity in the Indonesian version of Miracle in Cell No. 7 is represented in an unusual form in general but still maintains its masculinity traits. The character Dodo Rozak has seven characteristics of masculinity, according to Chafetz, namely: male physical appearance; male functional; male sexual; emotional; intellectual; male interpersonal; and personal character. The characteristics of masculinity are used as an alternative teaching option in Indonesian language subjects at the high school level, especially in the context of learning literature, namely drama texts, specifically analyzing the content and language of dramas watched, in accordance with KD 3.19.

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Quindeau, Ilka. "Masculinity Concepts in Psychoanalysis." Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur 43, no. 2 (November 6, 2018): 377–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/iasl-2018-0019.

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Abstract In the last few years, promising concepts for understanding masculinity have emerged from the perspective of inter-subjective, relational psychoanalysis; yet, a central theoretical problem is present in this approach: it focuses on “gender without sex“. The theories focus primarily on questions of identity. In contrast to this, I place the conflict-based, unconscious psychosexual dimension of maleness at the center of focus and use the terms ‘phallic’ and ‘genital’ not as normative and metaphoric, but focus on – in the original Freudian sense – the sexual, bodily dimension.

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Garrison, Kasey, Mary Mary, and Elizabeth Derouet. "Of Men and Masculinity: The Portrayal of Masculinity in a Selection of Award-Winning Australian Young Adult Literature." Knygotyra 76 (July 5, 2021): 228–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/knygotyra.2021.76.82.

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This research investigates the portrayal of masculinity in Australian young adult novels published in 2019. The novels were taken from the 2020 Children’s Books Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year for Older Readers Notables List. Established in 1946, these annual awards are considered the most prominent and prestigious in Australian children’s and young adult literature and are likely to be accessible and promoted to young readers in schools and libraries. The three texts studied were Four Dead Queens by Astrid Scholte, The Boy who Steals Houses by C.G. Drews, and This is How We Change the Ending by Vikki Wakefield. Using a Critical Content Analysis methodology (Beach et al., 2009), researchers completed a review of the literature and theories around masculinity and chose to analyse three exemplary texts using the attributes of the Hegemonic Masculinity Schema (HMS) and Sensitive New Man Schema (SNMS) as described by Romøren and Stephens (2002). Attributes from the HMS include traits and behaviours like being violent, physical or verbal bullying, and hostile to difference while attributes from the SNMS include being supportive, affectionate, and considerate and respectful of the space and feelings of others (especially females). In this method, researchers identify examples of the attributes within the main characters and minor characters from each of the three books, recording quotes and noting critical incidents depicting aspects of masculinity. Notable findings of the research include the acknowledgment and portrayal of a particular conception of hegemonic masculinity in the selected novels often informed or shaped by the presence of dominant father figures and the absence of the concept of “the mother.” The characters who aligned to the schema used within this research are often overshadowed by a dominant father figure who conformed to an extreme version of hegemonic masculinity and who shaped their child’s actions even if the fathers were absent from the novel. The research reveals commonly held conceptions of masculinity aligned to those used in the schema and demonstrated that young adult literature, like popular media, can be used as a vehicle for the dissemination of such concepts and reveal contemporary understandings of it. Outputs from this research include the development of a modified and more contemporary schema which could be applied to future research. Significantly, this interdisciplinary research bridges the library, education and literature fields to examine the different ways maleness and masculinity are depicted to young adult readers in prize-nominated Australian young adult novels.

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Angelianawati, Desca, and Darsono Darsono. "Romancing Masculinities in Utsana Phleungtham's The Story of Jan Darra: A Thai Literature." British (Jurnal Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris) 9, no. 2 (September 26, 2020): 37. http://dx.doi.org/10.31314/british.9.2.37-47.2020.

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The portrayal of male masculinities varies from time to time following the engulfment of gender studies. It is seen from the significant increase of the discussion related to male and masculinities. Furthermore, discussions of masculinity are linked with how a particular culture perceive masculinity. In several Thai folktales and so-considered classic literature like the Legendary Tale of Krai Thong and the Legend of Phra Chao Sua, the heroes and the warriors present themselves as masculine. Their manly assets including body and gesture have become the exploitation of the story whilst being the model of masculinity. Utsana Phleungtham’s two main male characters in the novel the Story of Jan Dara is without exception. Those heroes of the story portray male masculinities through their existence and domination. Undertaking the library studies, this article illustrates how male masculinities are depicted and why it is manifested though those characters. The findings show that the male masculinities are presented vividly in order to maintain the rooted masculine domination.

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Diabah, Grace. "Masculinity as a ‘hard small cage’? Reflections from Chimamanda Adichie’s We should all be feminists." Legon Journal of the Humanities 33, no. 1 (September 20, 2022): 39–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ljh.v33i1.2.

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With data from YouTube, this paper examines some masculinity issues raised by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in her TEDx talk ‘We should all be feminists’ and some selected interviews. She problematizes the masculine ideal of suppressing emotions and acting tough and uses them to gauge how masculinity can be described as a ‘cage’. To exemplify how this ‘cage’ might look like in reality, I draw on evidence from the literature on masculinity and men’s health as well as data from an unpublished document on discourses of fear and anxiety among male COVID-19 survivors in Ghana. Using the concept of hegemonic masculinity, I argue that the plethora of evidence in the literature suggest that (hegemonic) masculine norms indeed constrain men in ways that may have dire consequences, not only for their ego, but also for their health; hence, Chimamanda’s call to change the existing discourse is in order. Focusing on the ‘cage’ metaphor (including its qualifiers), however, I question Chimamanda’s description of masculinity since it suggests as though there is no room for contestation – something which weakens her own call for changing the narrative. The paper therefore proposes going beyond the kind of cage Chimamanda equates masculinity with, to make way for the needed interventions.

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Baguia, Jason Abellaneda. "Perspectives on the mediation of the quest for healthy masculinity: the case of the website Art of Manliness." Health & New Media Research 7, no. 1 (June 30, 2023): 14–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.22720/hnmr.2023.00038.

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Inspired by the phenomenological tradition of communication theory and research, this study applies frameworks relevant to the discourse on media, health, and society in a preliminary analysis of the Anglophone website Art of Manliness, which, without using the vocabulary of toxic or healthy masculinity, offers men actionable advice on personal development, in content that ranges from being generally about wellbeing to being almost medicalized. Toxic masculinity has been articulated, at the intersection of the social science and public health disciplines, as a gender issue and as a general social problem with implications on the health of communities. Movements for gender equality have inaugurated advocacies to curb this kind of masculinity, asserting that manhood can be expressed in healthier ways, especially in ways that honor women, but also in ways that respect the facticity of variety in how to live manhood. Missing from the literature is an examination of media cases exemplifying the search for healthy masculinity. I begin to close this gap by drawing from contemporary literature about toxic masculinity to enumerate a taxonomy of approaches to the problem. I also demonstrate the operationalizability of frameworks and concepts such as purity and danger, sociomaterialism, biovalue, and healthism in conjunction with textual analysis for future research about the mediation of healthy masculinity.

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King, Alice. "Experiencing Masculinity in the Classroom." Journal of PGR Pedagogic Practice 1 (November 9, 2021): 47–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.31273/jppp.vol1.2021.933.

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In this piece, I reflect upon my experiences of masculinities in different teaching and learning spaces. I draw upon existing literature concerned with laddism and compare how masculinity is performed differently in different spaces.

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Todorović, Marko. "THE (MIS)USE OF IDEAL MASCULINITY IN ARMED CONFLICTS." KULTURA POLISA 21, no. 1 (April 24, 2024): 82–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.51738/kpolisa2024.21.1r.82t.

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This paper explores the concept of ideal masculinity in the context of armed conflicts and analyses its relationship with actual forms of masculinity. The paper aims to present the content of the socioculturally shaped ideal of masculinity during wartime and explain how such an ideal impacts the lives of men affected by armed conflicts. Through a review of relevant literature from feminist theories of international security and masculinity studies, the paper highlights the discrepancy between ideals and reality, drawing attention to the negative consequences stemming from that gap. Namely, unable to meet the demands of ideal masculinity, men face frustration and pressure to become more violent than they would be, in order to conform to societal expectations. In conclusion, the paper emphasises the need for further research into this domain and the deconstruction of militarised masculinity with an ultimate aim to establish more inclusive perceptions of masculinity so that the majority of men can benefit from such a perception change.

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Juliana Daniels. "In the name of war: Hypermasculinity in Elma Shaw’s redemption road." World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews 17, no. 1 (January 30, 2023): 1030–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.30574/wjarr.2023.17.1.0092.

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The paper examines hyper-masculinity in West African war literature. Masculinity, hegemonic masculinity, and hyper-masculinity are all recurrent themes in Social Sciences and other fields of study but not so much in Literature. The disparity between the war history of West Africa, the few literary works on conflicts in West Africa, and the dearth of literary studies on Africa’s war literature underscore this study. Elma Shaw’s Redemption Road is one of the very few war novels on Liberia’s civil war that spanned from 1989 to 2003 and cost the lives of over 250,000 people. Through the frameworks of postcolonialism and hypermasculinity, this paper analyses hypermasculinity and gender relations in Shaw’s post-colonial war novel. The geopolitical struggles of the post-colony, the emblematic dichotomies of feminine and masculine, and their implications on gender relations in war discourse are centralized. The study demonstrates that faulty childhood context, faulty governance, poor coping strategies, and the fear-loaded cultural oppression of males to show manliness culminate in the trials of men in this fictional post-colonial Liberia. These tensions exacerbate the chaos of war as they render the conflict setting a ripe fodder for violent gender relations. They also engender the inexplicability of femininity in masculinity discourses for the only reason that females are the litmus for the test and measurement of masculinity in many patriarchal cultures as demonstrated in the novel. Thus, the paper reveals insights into why male characters become hyper-masculine in the novel. This revelation facilitates a better understanding of gender issues in war contexts. The conclusion to the discourse is that in fictional war-torn Liberia, excessive masculinity is not a masculine nomenclature but a colonially influenced gender coping parading that has lasting negative implications on gender relations.

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Wafidhi, Arif. "New Masculinities as Prevention and Resistance to Violence Against Women." Journal of Feminism and Gender Studies 3, no. 2 (July 24, 2023): 159. http://dx.doi.org/10.19184/jfgs.v3i2.39687.

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Abstract Violence against women does not arise in an empty space. Violence against women emerges as a consequence of the construction of dominant masculinity that has been maintained for thousands of years. Long history bears witness to how this construction continues to produce a dominant-subordinate position between men and women. Men in the dominant position and women in the subordinate position. This article discusses the history of masculinity from traditional-modern-postmodern and tries to criticize the masculinity of each period. The analytical tool used is a compilation of critical social theory in Ben Agger's book and Janet Saltman Chafetz's theory of masculinity hegemony. The method used is the literature study method, to trace how the evolution of masculinity that was originally rigid has now become more fluid. The result of this article is how new men who are the product of postmodern masculinity can be used as a concept to prevent and fight violence against women. This concept is known as the new masculinity. Keywords : Violence, History, New Masculinity, Women, and Resistance

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Armengol, Josep M. "Past, Present (and Future) of Studies of Literary Masculinities: A Case Study in Intersectionality." Men and Masculinities 22, no. 1 (March 12, 2019): 64–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1097184x18805552.

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This article offers an overview of studies of literary masculinities. After tracing their origins and development within the broader field of masculinity studies, it continues by illustrating the present applications of masculinity studies to literary criticism, ranging from studies of female to “ethnic” (i.e., both white and non-white) masculinities in literature, among others. This article concludes by showing that, as in the case of masculinity studies in general, current studies of literary masculinities could and should continue to draw on critical insights from intersectionality, as illustrated by rereading Douglass’ autobiographical slave (1845). Narrative from the perspective of both masculinity and whiteness studies.

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Bankauskaitė, Gabija, and Raminta Stravinskaitė. "Masculinity in Algirdas Landsbergis's Short Stories." Respectus Philologicus 40, no. 45 (October 11, 2021): 122–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/respectus.2021.40.45.97.

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In interwar and post-war societies, men were required to show endurance, courage, and emotional stability, but their traumas, caused by the experience of war and the economic, political, and social realities of the post-war period, are just started to be analysed. Algirdas Jeronimas Landsbergis (1924–2004), a playwright, prose writer, editor, literary and theatre critic of the Lithuanian diaspora, conveys these themes in his work. The images of masculinity revealed in the texts help clarify the general experience of the society hidden in the works and understand what kind of masculinity prevailed in society after the world wars changed the lives of women and men. Using K. G. Jung’s theory of analytical psychology, the article analyses A. Landsbergis’ short stories, which literature researchers less studied. Texts are explored as reflections and shapers of society, and in the case of masculinity, it is discussed what is meant by the archetypes of masculinity recorded in the literature. Based on the work of R. L. Moore and D. Gillette and J. C. Campbell, the archetypes of the divine child, the child prodigy, the Oedipus child and the hero and mature masculinity – the king, warrior, magician and lover are distinguished.

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Boothroyd, Lynda G., Isabel Scott, Alan W. Gray, Claire I. Coombes, and Nicholas Pound. "Male Facial Masculinity as a Cue to Health Outcomes." Evolutionary Psychology 11, no. 5 (December 2013): 147470491301100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/147470491301100508.

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Evolutionary theories of human attraction draw heavily upon nonhuman literature, and currently the Immunocompetence Handicap Hypothesis dominates research into female attraction to male facial masculinity. Although some studies have shown links between masculinity and some measures of health, other data have failed to support the Immunocompetence Hypothesis as applied to human face preferences. Here we summarize that literature and present new data regarding links between masculinity and multiple measures of health condition in human males. Undergraduate males were photographed and their faces were assessed for sexual dimorphism using multiple methods and rated for apparent healthiness and attractiveness. Participants also reported recent health experiences both prior to being photographed and then again 10 weeks later. Although both attractiveness and rated health were associated with better actual health in the past and future (mainly indexed by lower antibiotic use), results were mixed for masculinity. With respect to respiratory illnesses, facial masculinity (assessed using morphometric techniques) was associated with better past health but with worse future health. Possible reasons for the complex and inconsistent findings are discussed and some potentially fruitful avenues of future research are outlined.

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Robertson, Janice. "Marketing masculinity, branding the book: Current gender trends in the presentation of selected boys’ adventure novels." Journal of Language and Cultural Education 4, no. 3 (September 1, 2016): 257–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jolace-2016-0035.

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Abstract Chris Bradford’s Young Samurai series, and his more recent Bodyguard Series draw on a strong sense of hegemonic masculinity to secure popularity for the protagonist. The success of these books is particularly interesting when one considers the gender agendas that are embraced by modern western society and the extent to which general opinion has altered in terms of the performance of masculinity. According to John Stephens in Ways of Being Male: Representing Masculinities in Children’s Literature and Film (2002, p. x), a problem for boys, both in narrative fictions and in the world, is that hegemonic masculinity ‘appears simultaneously to propose a schema for behaviour and to insist on their subordination as children, to conflate agency with hegemonic masculinity, and to disclose that, for them, such agency is illusory. These paradoxes are currently being increasingly dealt with as a theme in children’s literature and film’. My paper will discuss these apparent paradoxes in Chris Bradford’s novels in the context of a 21st century child readership.

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Thomas, Helen. "Women Writing Creole Masculinity." Women's Writing 28, no. 2 (April 3, 2021): 283–304. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09699082.2021.1879436.

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Lehnhof, Kent R. "PERFORMING MASCULINITY IN “PARADISE LOST”." Milton Studies 50 (January 1, 2009): 64–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/26396038.

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