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Journal articles on the topic "Virtual masculinity"

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Olufisayomi Opeyemi Oripeloye. "Virtual masculinities: Gamification, escape, and body control in Ernest Cline’s ready player one (2011)." World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews 23, no. 3 (2024): 1387–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.30574/wjarr.2024.23.3.2782.

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This paper examines the intersection of masculinity and technology in Ernest Cline's Ready Player One, focusing on how virtual spaces like the OASIS serve as arenas for constructing and performing masculinity. Through the lenses of gamification, technological escape, and control over the virtual body, the novel presents a nuanced critique of how men navigate identity in a digital, hyperreal world. The study argues that Ready Player One not only reflects hegemonic masculine ideals but also reveals the vulnerabilities and limitations of such constructions in both real and virtual realms. By analyzing the protagonist Wade Watts's journey, the paper explores how the gamification of identity in the OASIS allows for the performance of idealized masculinity while simultaneously exposing its fragility. It examines how technology serves as an escape from real-world vulnerabilities, offering temporary empowerment but ultimately highlighting the unsustainability of virtual refuges. Furthermore, the paper investigates how control over the virtual body in the OASIS reflects broader cultural pressures on men to conform to societal standards of masculinity. Drawing on scholarly work in digital media, gender studies, and gaming culture, this analysis contributes to a deeper understanding of how digital environments both construct and deconstruct traditional gender norms. Ultimately, the paper argues that while the OASIS provides a space for performing idealized masculinity, it also underscores the limitations of virtual identities, revealing the need for a more grounded understanding of masculinity that transcends the illusory empowerment offered by technology.

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Olufisayomi, Opeyemi Oripeloye. "Virtual masculinities: Gamification, escape, and body control in Ernest Cline's ready player one (2011)." World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews 23, no. 3 (2024): 1387–96. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14945355.

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This paper examines the intersection of masculinity and technology in Ernest Cline's <em>Ready Player One</em>, focusing on how virtual spaces like the OASIS serve as arenas for constructing and performing masculinity. Through the lenses of gamification, technological escape, and control over the virtual body, the novel presents a nuanced critique of how men navigate identity in a digital, hyperreal world. The study argues that <em>Ready Player One</em> not only reflects hegemonic masculine ideals but also reveals the vulnerabilities and limitations of such constructions in both real and virtual realms. By analyzing the protagonist Wade Watts's journey, the paper explores how the gamification of identity in the OASIS allows for the performance of idealized masculinity while simultaneously exposing its fragility. It examines how technology serves as an escape from real-world vulnerabilities, offering temporary empowerment but ultimately highlighting the unsustainability of virtual refuges. Furthermore, the paper investigates how control over the virtual body in the OASIS reflects broader cultural pressures on men to conform to societal standards of masculinity. Drawing on scholarly work in digital media, gender studies, and gaming culture, this analysis contributes to a deeper understanding of how digital environments both construct and deconstruct traditional gender norms. Ultimately, the paper argues that while the OASIS provides a space for performing idealized masculinity, it also underscores the limitations of virtual identities, revealing the need for a more grounded understanding of masculinity that transcends the illusory empowerment offered by technology.

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Gumilar, Trisna, Aquarini Priyatna, and Tisna Prabasmoro. "“Boys Will Be Boys?”: Men’s Talk as Homosocial Engagement in Male-Dominated WhatsApp Groups of Cycling Communities in Bandung." International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies 21, no. 1 (2025): 29–60. https://doi.org/10.21315/ijaps2025.21.1.2.

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This article explores how men shape their masculine identities within the WhatsApp groups of cycling communities in Bandung, Indonesia, in particular how dominating masculinity is exhibited in the social interactions between members of WhatsApp groups and how this influences the formation of masculine identities. The comprehensive netnographic study conducted in this research, spanning from 2020 to 2023, discerns two distinct modes of interaction that underscore this association. In virtual chat groups, hegemonic masculinity is maintained through messages focusing on core cycling-related activities, which are rooted in themes of competition and male dominance. Additionally, the use of chat fillers, including verbal, pictorial, and video postings, reinforces hegemonic masculinity, even if they digress from the core discussions. This study employs a qualitative methodology to illuminate the multifaceted ways in which individuals engage in reshaping formal sporting communities into playful male homosociality. The aims are to examine the ways in which men perform their masculine identities through internal competition and the perpetuation of masculine stereotypes within these virtual homosocial settings. Moreover, they engage in the internalisation of gender role stereotypes and stigmas, the endorsement of heterosexual masculinities, and the expression of transphobic sentiments to defend and perpetuate norms associated with hegemonic masculinity. The article argues that the circulation of and interaction with digital images associated with femininity and womanhood underpins male homosocial bonding within WhatsApp groups belonging to the cycling community in Bandung.

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Espinar-Ruiz, Eva, and Ismael Ocampo. "Ways of Masculinity in Online Dating Profiles: the Cases of Meetic.es and AdoptaUnTio.es." Masculinities & Social Change 6, no. 3 (2017): 196. http://dx.doi.org/10.17583/mcs.2017.2709.

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The analysis of masculinity has been a topic of growing interest in recent decades. Its study has incorporated a wide and diverse range of research areas and themes, including the representation of gender relations and identities on the Internet. Specifically, this article concerns the research area related to online dating websites and aims to compare the principal current tendencies related to identity -as provided by research on masculinity- with the way that men present themselves on two Spanish dating websites: Meetic.es and AdoptaUnTio.es. These types of virtual spaces have specific characteristics that facilitate the analysis of the masculine ideal among their users; or at least the characteristics that these men consider attractive to women. This research was carried out through a qualitative analysis supported by Atlas-ti. The principal results highlight the presence of traces of the so called egalitarian masculinity within predominant forms of traditional masculinity, characterized by a minimal process of reflection and introspection on the part of users of these websites.

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Caruso, Alexandra, and Steven Roberts. "Exploring constructions of masculinity on a men’s body-positivity blog." Journal of Sociology 54, no. 4 (2017): 627–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1440783317740981.

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Men’s experiences with digital media and social networking sites remain relatively underexplored. Here, we analyse the complex ways that men construct, represent and perform masculinity on a men’s body-positivity Tumblr blog called Body Positivity for Guys. Drawing on both hegemonic masculinity theory and inclusive masculinity theory’ we contribute to current theoretical discussions within the academic literature on masculinities, while extending these prominent debates to new virtual environments. In particular, we find that the interactions of the men on the blog demonstrate a consistent eschewal of tactics of marginalisation and subordination that have long been the hallmark of research into relations of power within masculine hierarchies. Furthermore, we demonstrate how all of the diverse constructions of masculinities on the blog site held cultural legitimacy and were equally supported.

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Romanets, Maryna. "Virtual Warfare: Masculinity, Sexuality, and Propaganda in the Russo-Ukrainian War." East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies 4, no. 1 (2017): 159. http://dx.doi.org/10.21226/t26880.

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This paper explores the intersection of sexual and political discourses as a particular aspect of the body politics that Russia has employed, among other strategies, in its massive propaganda offensive during the hybrid warfare against Ukraine.While recognizing sexuality as one of the mainstream concepts in political analysis, the paper draws on sexually explicit imagery and idiom used in Russian social media, and public discursive space in general, as propaganda techniques, and maps their “genealogy” within wider sociocultural and political contexts. Being conceptualized in terms of Russian hegemonic masculinity in relation to subordinated femininity and non-hegemonic masculinities of its adversarial others, these setups reveal how sexuality constitutes uneven and contradictory nexuses of power once being co-opted by Putin’s propaganda machine. It is noteworthy that Russia’s neo-imperial discursive tactics of homologizing sexual and political dominance—when supplemented with the official rhetoric of restituting Russia as a great power, Orthodox Christian fundamentalism as an integral part of Russian unique “state-civilization,” state-sanctioned homophobia, and traditional macho gender ideology—contribute quite effectively to sustaining public support in Russia for aggression against Ukraine in the process of Russian reimperialization of the former Soviet space.

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Rodriguez, Nathian Shae, and Terri Hernandez. "Dibs on that Sexy Piece of Ass: Hegemonic Masculinity on TFM Girls Instagram Account." Social Media + Society 4, no. 1 (2018): 205630511876080. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2056305118760809.

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The study examines how the TFM Girls Instagram account, along with its followers, shapes and maintains dominant discourses of masculinity. Mixed-method analyses revealed that women were depicted more in bikinis, posed in overtly sexually suggestive poses, excluded the women’s eyes and faces, and included predominately White, fit, big-breasted women. There was a positive correlation between the number of likes/comments with breast size. There were also instances of misogyny and objectification manifested in the men’s comments attached to the photographs. The results highlight Instagram as a digital extension of fraternal social spaces. TFM Girls reinforces hegemonic masculinity on a macro-level by allowing virtual linkages among fraternity members across the United States and by fostering a national online frat house ripe with misogyny and objectification.

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Cappelle, Tessa, and Bernhard Fink. "Changes in Women's Attractiveness Perception of Masculine Men's Dances across the Ovulatory Cycle: Preliminary Data." Evolutionary Psychology 11, no. 5 (2013): 147470491301100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/147470491301100503.

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Women's preferences for putative cues of genetic quality in men's voices, faces, bodies, and behavioral displays are stronger during the fertile phase of the ovulatory cycle. Here we show that ovulatory cycle-related changes in women's attractiveness perceptions of male features are also found with dance movements, especially those perceived as highly masculine. Dance movements of 79 British men were recorded with an optical motion-capture system whilst dancing to a basic rhythm. Virtual humanoid characters (avatars) were created and converted into 15-second video clips and rated by 37 women on masculinity. Another 23 women judged the attractiveness of the 10 dancers who scored highest and those 10 who scored lowest on masculinity once in days of high fertility and once in days of low fertility of their ovulatory cycle. High-masculine dancers were judged higher on attractiveness around ovulation than on other cycle days, whilst no such perceptual difference was found for low-masculine dancers. We suggest that women may gain fitness benefits from evolved preferences for masculinity cues they obtain from male dance movements.

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Clarkson, Alexander. "Virtual Heroes: Boys, Masculinity and Historical Memory in War Comics 1945 - 1995." Thymos: Journal of Boyhood Studies 2, no. 2 (2008): 175–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.3149/thy/0202.175.

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Lau, Kimberly J. "Masculinity and Melancholia at the Virtual End: Leaving the World (of Warcraft)." differences 28, no. 3 (2017): 44–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/10407391-4260531.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Virtual masculinity"

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Brenner-Levoy, Jeremy. "Virtually Masculine: Queer Men's Experiences with Harassment in Online Video Games." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1571061741106006.

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Ruby, Matthew Byron. "Of meat, morals, and masculinity : factors underlying the consumption of non-human animals, and inferences about another’s character." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/1504.

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Previous psychological research on vegetarianism has focused primarily on participants' health and weight concerns, and the process by which people adopt a vegetarian diet. The present studies broaden this research by exploring the differences in the way omnivores and vegetarians perceive animals and people whose diets do or do not include meat. In Study 1, participants reported their willingness to eat a series of animal- and vegetable-sourced foods, as well as their perceptions of the animals’ qualities. In Study 2, participants reported their impressions of a hypothetical student’s character and personality, basing their inferences on a short profile that indicated the student’s dietary choices as either omnivorous or vegetarian. Our findings in Study 1 suggest that the decision to eat or not eat animals is chiefly a function of disgust at the thought of eating them and how often one has seen them for sale in a store, but also affected by such diverse factors as perceptions of their intelligence, capacity for pain and suffering, appearance, and similarity to humans. In Study 2, both omnivores and vegetarians rated the vegetarian student targets as more virtuous and ethical than the omnivorous student targets.

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Jackman, Alexander. "Virtue, Honour and Mischief: The Role of Youthful Disobedience in Civic Humanism and Masculinity in the Florentine Renaissance." Thesis, Department of History, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/18251.

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This thesis explores the subversive world of male youths in Florence between the mid-fourteenth century and 1530. Whereas historians have emphasised the conservative foundations of Renaissance ‘virtue’ and ‘honour’ – values such as piety, thrift, self-restraint and political participation – this thesis evokes the ways in which unorthodox means of civic engagement were tolerated, and indeed celebrated, when perpetrated by young males for the benefit of the city. Through public ridicule, unauthorised violence and extra-marital sexuality, young males asserted themselves within the Florentine Republic, and this thesis highlights how that culture’s laudation of such dissident behaviour reflected its interpretation of civic humanism.

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Bluteau, Joshua Max. "Authenticity, performance and the construction of self : a journey through the terrestrial and digital landscapes of men's tailored dress." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/16576.

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This thesis explores high-end and bespoke menswear, tailoring and fashion, asking the question - why do some men choose to spend large sums of money to have clothes made for them? Using tailors and high-end menswear as a lens, this thesis unpacks how men construct their notion of self in the digital and terrestrial worlds through the clothes that they wear and the identities they perform. Based on twelve months' terrestrial fieldwork in London and twenty-four months' concurrent digital fieldwork with Instagram, this thesis examines notions of dress, performance and the individual across a multi-dimensional fieldsite set within a blended digital and terrestrial landscape. The fieldwork comprised visiting and interviewing tailors, and observing inside their workshops and at their fashion shows. In addition, the analyst-as-client built relationships with tailors, and constructed a digital self within Instagram through the publication of self-portraits and images of clothing. This thesis is presented in four chapters, flanked by an Introduction and Conclusion. These chapters move from an exploration of terrestrial research in the first two, to an analysis of digital research in the latter two. Five major motifs emerge in this thesis: the importance of the anthropology of clothing and adornment within western society; the nature of the individual in a digitised world; the difficulty in conducting western-centric fieldwork without an element of digital analysis; a methodological restructuring of digital anthropology; and the idea that a digital self can acquire agency. This thesis employs a pioneering blended methodology which brings together the fields of digital anthropology, visual anthropology and material culture to question how selves are constructed in a rapidly changing and increasingly digitised modernity. In conclusion, the thesis argues that individuals construct multiple digital selves and a sense of identity (around the notion of 'authentic individualism') that is illusory.

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Harder, Marie-Pierre. "Hercule à la croisée des chemins ou le “héros perplexe”. (Re)configurations discursives et genrées de l’apologue de Prodicos dans les cultures européennes, de l’Antiquité aux débuts du XIXe siècle (domaines allemand, anglais, français, italien)." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018SORUL027.

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Au croisement des études culturelles, de la comparaison différentielle et des études genre et queer, cette thèse propose une analyse mythopoétique des (re)configurations discursives et genrées du mythe d’Hercule à la croisée des chemins dans les cultures européennes, de l’Antiquité aux débuts du XIXe siècle, dans les domaines allemand, anglais, français et italien. La thèse commence par une relecture critique des interprétations humanistes du mythe, qui font du héros hésitant entre le vice (ou le plaisir) et la vertu le paradigme universel et désincarné d’un sujet moral. Grâce aux apports des études sur les masculinités, la deuxième partie procède à une recontextualisation et à une historicisation genrées des réécritures du choix herculéen. Étudiant successivement les reconfigurations du mythe dans la pédagogie humaniste, ses réinvestissements dans des textes épiques sur la longue durée européenne, ses reprises dans des pièces et poèmes didactiques du XVIIIe siècle, puis sa réélaboration dans les romans de formation, qui émergent au tournant des XVIIIe-XIXe siècles européens comme formes privilégiées de mise en récit d’un devenir-masculin hégémonique, la présente étude avance que ce mythe constitue une puissante « technologie de genre » (Teresa de Lauretis), à travers laquelle s’est engendrée, selon des modalités (con)textuelles variées, la figure d’un sujet libéral, masculin, blanc et straight, érigé en mythe fondateur de la modernité européenne (et de sa raison discriminante). Une dernière partie propose dès lors une relecture queer du mythe, en explorant plusieurs réécritures qui troublent la binarité du choix à la croisée des chemins pour mieux désorienter son héros<br>This PhD thesis proposes a mythopoetic analysis of the discursive and gendered (re-)configurations of the myth of Hercules at the crossroads, as it has taken shape in the realm of European cultures, from Antiquity until the beginning of the 19th century, in German, English, French, and Italian. Adopting an approach at the intersection of cultural studies, comparative studies, gender and queer studies, the thesis begins with a critical rereading of the humanist interpretations of the myth, where the hesitating hero, torn between vice (or pleasure) and virtue, is the universal paradigm of a moral subject. Based on masculinity studies, the second part of the thesis recontextualises and historicizes Hercules choices from a gendered perspective. The core of this thesis revisits historical reconfigurations of the myth by looking at humanist pedagogy and its resurgence of epic forms in the long European tradition—including 18th century didactic plays and poems and coming-of-age novels that emerge at the turn of the 18th to 19th century. These become the primary discursive forms for narrating a hegemonic idea of masculinity. The thesis demonstrates that the Hercules myth constitutes a powerful “gender technology” (Teresa de Lauretis), that has operated as a vector for engendering, in varying contextual modalities, the figure of the liberal, masculine, white and straight subject, erected as the founding myth of European modernity (and its discriminatory implications). Departing from this argument, the last part proposes a queer reading of the myth, by exploring several rewritings that trouble the binary choice of the crossroads in order to better disorient its hero

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Fynn, Angelo. "A critical discourse analysis of strategies used to construct South African initiation schools in online news reports and discussion forums." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/15372.

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This thesis examines the discourse strategies used to construct initiation schools in online media and message boards. The focus is on understanding the tensions that come with enacting traditional practices in the face of modernity and its associated cultural expectations. The thesis describes the manner in which these tensions are constructed in text by the media in news reports and participants in discussion forums. While there is still debate around whether the internet will revolutionise public participation and create a digital utopia; the internet is acknowledged as one of the widest reaching sources of information and entertainment. Specifically, the internet provides a platform to challenge the traditionally top-down communication between the elite, who have privileged access to the media, and the general public, who were previously constructed as passive recipients of information. Using the male circumcision initiation rite, this thesis examines how the South African public discursively constructs the epistemic location of African traditions in South Africa. The study drew on a sample of news articles from the News24 site, the largest news site in South Africa, ranging from January 2008 to December 2013. A corpus of 62 articles were analysed using the Critical Discourse Analysis technique described by Teun van Dijk. The findings of the thesis were that the initiation rite is used as a rhetorical tool to argue for the abandonment of African cultural practices in favour of modern, Western influenced beliefs and values. The findings also indicate that the initiation rite is reduced to the act of circumcision in the media by focusing on the injury and deaths of the initiates and excluding the meaning of the rite as a meaningful cultural practice. The conclusion of the thesis challenges the epistemicide committed against the male circumcision initiation rite from within the Decolonial school of thought, which critically examines everyday interaction for universalising, normative language that aims to commit cultural epistemicide to reinforce the white, male, European, Christian traditions of masculinity.<br>Psychology<br>D. Litt. et Phil. (Psychology)

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Books on the topic "Virtual masculinity"

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Yūsuf, Nuʻaym. Maʻālim al-rujulah fī al-Islām. Dār al-Manārah, 2006.

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Bogdanovic, Danijela. Bands in Virtual Spaces, Social Networking, and Masculinity. Edited by Sheila Whiteley and Shara Rambarran. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199321285.013.17.

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Kendall, Lori. Hanging Out in the Virtual Pub: Masculinities and Relationships Online. University of California Press, 2002.

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Werner, Yvonne Maria, ed. Christian Masculinity. Leuven University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.11116/9789461664280.

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In the mid-nineteenth century, when the idea of religion as a private matter connected to the home and the female sphere won acceptance among the bourgeois elite, Christian religious practices began to be associated with femininity and soft values. Contemporary critics claimed that religion was incompatible with true manhood, and today's scholars talk about a feminisation of religion. But was this really the case? What expression did male religious faith take at a time when Christianity was losing its status as the foundation of society? This is the starting point for the research presented in Christian Masculinity.Here we meet Catholic and Protestant men struggling with and for their Christian faith as priests, missionaries, and laymen, as well as ideas and reflections on Christian masculinity in media, fiction, and correspondence of various kinds. Some men engaged in social and missionary work, or strove to harness the masculine combative spirit to Christian ends, while others were eager to show the male character of Christian virtues. This book not only illustrates the importance of religion for the understanding of gender construction, but also the need to take into consideration confessional and institutional aspects of religious identity.

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McKay, Brett, and Kate McKay. Art of Manliness - Manvotionals: Timeless Wisdom and Advice on Living the 7 Manly Virtues. Adams Media Corporation, 2011.

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Eastlake, Laura. Ancient Rome and Victorian Masculinity. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198833031.001.0001.

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Ancient Rome and Victorian Masculinity examines Victorian receptions of ancient Rome from the French Revolution to the First World War, with a specific focus on how those receptions were deployed to create useable models of masculinity. Romans in Victorian literature were at once pagan persecutors, pious statesmen, pleasure-seeking decadents, and heroes of empire. The Roman parallel was used to capture the martial virtue of Wellington just as it was used to condemn the deviance and degeneracy of Oscar Wilde. Using approaches from literary and cultural studies, reception studies, and gender studies, this book is the first comprehensive examination of the importance of ancient Rome for Victorian ideas about masculinity. With chapters on education, politics, empire, and late Victorian decadence, it makes sense of the manifold and often contradictory representations of Rome—as distinct from Greece—in authors like Wilkie Collins, Anthony Trollope, H. Rider Haggard, Rudyard Kipling, and others.

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Thurman, Eric. Adam and the Making of Masculinity. Edited by Danna Nolan Fewell. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199967728.013.15.

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The narrative(s) in Genesis 1–3 is a foundational text for Western discourse on gender and sexuality. To date, studies of biblical masculinities have virtually ignored the biblical first male subject; feminist scholarship has long focused on Eve; and queer readings that render Genesis 1–3 alien to modern discourses are promising but small in number. This chapter takes some tentative first steps toward a more focused reception history of Adam as a gendered subject. In light of the current (and still relatively new) state of scholarship on biblical masculinities, the chapter then proposes that reception history and cultural-historical approaches to biblical “afterlives” offer a promising path for future work. Particular attention is paid to Adam’s gender in Genesis 1–3 itself and in the writings of Paul, as well as in later theological, literary, and artistic texts.

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McDonnell, Myles. Roman Manliness: "Virtus" and the Roman Republic. Cambridge University Press, 2006.

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Roman Manliness: Virtus and the Roman Republic. Cambridge University Press, 2009.

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Burke, Devin. “Good Bye, Old Arm”. Edited by Blake Howe, Stephanie Jensen-Moulton, Neil Lerner, and Joseph Straus. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199331444.013.21.

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Over 45,000 soldiers became amputees during the Civil War. The scale of wartime disability challenged American beliefs that masculinity and patriotism were virtually inseparable from able-bodiedness. By the war’s end, the amputated limb had become a recurring subject in music, photography, and literature. This essay discusses representative Civil War era songs about amputee veterans and analyzes how they musically and lyrically negotiated the cultural scripts of disability, masculinity, and patriotism. These scripts became especially complex when able-bodied women performed the songs in the voices of disabled veterans. Three songs are discussed in detail, including the song “Old Arm, Good Bye,” in which a soldier sings a love ballad to his freshly amputated arm, thanking the arm for its strength and loyalty to the Union. These songs reconstructed the disabled veteran, and indeed the amputated arm itself, as complex symbols of both patriotism and Victorian masculinity.

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Schmalfuß, Sven. "‘Ghosts of Sparta’: Performing the God of War’s Virtual Masculinity." In Performing Masculinity. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230276086_13.

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Elund, Jude. "Masculinity, Mass Consumerism and Subversive Sex." In Subversion, Sexuality and the Virtual Self. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137468345_5.

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Rehling, Nicola. "Fleshing Out Virtual Bodies: White Heterosexual Masculinity in Contemporary Cyberfantasy Cinema." In The Future of Flesh. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230620858_10.

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Amico, Stephen. "‘This Is to Enrage You’." In Ethnomusicology, Queerness, Masculinity. Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15313-6_2.

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AbstractThe fundamental utility of rage as a motivator for early AIDS activists is contrasted with the double silencing marking ethnomusicology’s relationship to same-sex desire: it is virtually non-existent in the discipline’s literature, and the erasure has generated no response, enraged or otherwise, within academia. Additionally, two themes animating ensuing discussions are presented. First, the field’s belated acceptance of ‘gender’ as a site of inquiry, overwhelmingly used as a shorthand for ‘studies of/by women’, is revealed as related to the creation of a veneer of ‘diversity’ that functions to keep men/masculinity immune from examination. And second, ethnomusicology’s self-construction as the ethical other to musicology is exposed as resting not on epistemological/methodological desiderata, but an intense homophobic drive to construct a masculine disciplinary identity in contradistinction to musicology’s assumed femininity.

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Fosl, Peter S. "The Big Lebowski: Nihilism, Masculinity, and Abiding Virtue." In The Palgrave Handbook of Popular Culture as Philosophy. Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97134-6_35-2.

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Fosl, Peter S. "The Big Lebowski: Nihilism, Masculinity, and Abiding Virtue." In The Palgrave Handbook of Popular Culture as Philosophy. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97134-6_35-1.

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Fosl, Peter S. "The Big Lebowski: Nihilism, Masculinity, and Abiding Virtue." In The Palgrave Handbook of Popular Culture as Philosophy. Springer International Publishing, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24685-2_35.

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Clark, Kate Euphemia. "The Feminine Embodiment of VR: Critiquing the Default Masculinity of VR Embodiment." In Virtual Reality Gaming. Emerald Publishing Limited, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83549-376-220251016.

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"Clean Modernization, the Web-Marriage Game, and Chinese Men in Virtual Reality." In Excess and Masculinity in Asian Cultural Productions. SUNY Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781438432106-008.

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"Clean Modernization, the Web-Marriage Game, and Chinese Men in Virtual Reality." In Excess and Masculinity in Asian Cultural Productions. State University of New York Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/jj.18253695.10.

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Conference papers on the topic "Virtual masculinity"

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Brooks, Ellen, Roger Figueroa, Ethan Petersen, et al. "Abstract PO-070: Psychometric properties and analysis of the masculinity barriers to medical care scale among African American, Indigenous, and White men." In Abstracts: AACR Virtual Conference: 14th AACR Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities in Racial/Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved; October 6-8, 2021. American Association for Cancer Research, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1158/1538-7755.disp21-po-070.

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