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Pat Barker’s Achilles: Excess of Manliness and Hegemonic Masculinity toward Self-Destruction

thersites. Journal for Transcultural Presences & Diachronic Identities from Antiquity to Date
In this article, we analyze the figure of Achilles as Pat Barker rewrites him in The Silence of the Girls (2018). The first section intertwines the concept of hegemonic masculinity, developed by Raewyn Connell, with the two types of Homeric ...
Tiago Cordeiro, Luiz Fernando Ferreira Sá   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Who is a responsible woman? Understanding the scope and characteristics of responsible womanhood amongst women in Karachi

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract In this paper, we will construct and analyze intersecting definitions of womanhood among middle‐class women living in Karachi, Pakistan. Women are agents of their lives and are not passive voices. In this paper, we present narratives of women who resist “societal” narratives of womanhood to live a life of their choosing.
Urooba Ahmed Fatima, Kathryn B. H. Clancy, Alexandra Brewis, Neetu Choudhary, Mohammad Jobayer Hossain, Cindi SturtzSreetharan, Sarah Trainer, Amber Wutich   +7 more
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Coğrafyaya Erkeklik Kavramının Yerleşmesi ve Hegemonik Erkekliğe Yaklaşımlar

Coğrafi Bilimler Dergisi
This study explains the establishment of the concept of masculinity in the discipline of geography and how hegemonic masculinity is formed in places and places.
Miyase Yalçın
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Performing history, negotiating patriarchy: Actressing as gendered labor and the fragmentation of womanhood in Chinese historical costume drama

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract Gender inequality remains widespread in the film and television production industry, yet it is seldom examined in relation to backstage working environments. This article integrates on‐screen and off‐screen perspectives to investigate the working lives of Chinese actresses.
Yajie Li, Yuhao Ding
wiley   +1 more source

Hybrid Hegemonic Masculinities: Interrogating Men’s Intervention Programming

Socius
Reporting on an ethnography of a profeminist batterer intervention program (BIP), this article details how the theory of hybrid hegemonic masculinities can help understand processes and outcomes in men’s interventions.
Chris M. Vidmar
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Football and Romanian Masculinity. How it is constructed by the Sport Media?

Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Sociologia, 2017
The present article is focusing on hegemonic masculinity represented and expressed by the professional footballers. Based on the empirical study using text analysis of leading articles published in central Romanian sport newspapers I draw the ideal ...
Péter László
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Navigating Workplace Bullying: A Critical Theory Exploration of Lecturers' Experiences in a Higher Education Context

Human Resource Development Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Workplace bullying (WB) remains a pervasive concern across all sectors, including higher education institutions (HEIs), where shifting power dynamics, performance pressures, and transformation mandates often create fertile ground for systemic abuse.
Helen Meyer
wiley   +1 more source

Gendered Pathways to Work–Family Balance and Their Consequences: Insights From Dual‐Career Faculty Couples

Human Resource Development Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines gendered work–family balance (WFB) experiences among dual‐career academic couples at U.S. research‐intensive universities. By comparing faculty couples who shared the same or similar professional and family contexts, the study explores how gendered demands, challenges, resources, and strategies shaped distinct WFB outcomes.
Kyung Nam Kim, Shinhee Jeong
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Forest governance and the politics of care: Practices, subjectivities and more‐than‐human‐relations in contemporary conservation regimes in Guaviare, Colombia

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Market‐based conservation instruments such as REDD+ and Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) have been promoted to curb deforestation in the Colombian Amazon. Yet these schemes remain contested, as they advance neoliberal conservation and reproduce gender inequalities.
Sandra Ángel Moreno, Cristina Espinosa, Zabrina Welter   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Interpreting Sustainability: A Cross‐Cultural Exploration Between New Zealand (Western & Indigenous) and Chinese (Urban) Consumers

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainability is a globally promoted concept, yet its meaning is often shaped by cultural context. Existing research has largely been informed by Western‐centric understandings of sustainability, leaving limited insight into how sustainability is interpreted across diverse cultural settings.
Caixia (Ivy) Gan, Denise Maria Conroy
wiley   +1 more source