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Discovering Real Men Care: The Emergent Masculinities of Stay-at-Home Husbands in Hong Kong [PDF]

American Journal of Men's Health
The rising phenomenon of stay-at-home husbands (SAHHs) in Hong Kong exemplifies the evolution of masculinities in Asia. The development of emergent masculinities through SAHHs is intertwined with hybrid masculinities to expand the range of visible male ...
Eileen YH Tsang
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Caring masculinities and the politics of feminist representation in the Portuguese media [PDF]

Frontiers in Sociology
In recent decades, the focus on masculinities as a means to sustain or challenge patriarchy has gained significant attention. Concepts such as “hegemonic masculinity”, which embodies the legitimation of patriarchy, and “toxic masculinities”, which ...
Sofia José Santos, Júlia Garraio, Bárbara Janiques de Carvalho   +2 more
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Straight from foster care to the youth detention center? The (mis)paths of child protection and juvenile justice policies in the construction of violent masculinities [PDF]

Frontiers in Sociology
The present article aims to understand how public policies for the protection of endangered children/youngsters and juvenile justice work together or, on the contrary, in a disjointed way, and its impacts on the reproduction of gender stereotypes, namely
Marta Mascarenhas
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Masculinities and Globalization

Men and Masculinities, 1998
Recent social science research has made important changes in our understanding of masculinities and men's gender practices, emphasizing the plurality and hierarchy of masculinities, and their collective and dynamic character. These gains have been achieved mainly by close-focus research methods. But in a globalizing world, we must pay attention also to
R W Connell
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Transforming harmful representations, investigating violence and empowering care practises in masculinities [PDF]

Frontiers in Sociology
Stemming from a critical perspective of feminist studies on masculinities, this article proposes to explore how dominant and hegemonic masculinities are being reimagined, renegotiated and reconstructed, by understanding new patterns of violence amongst ...
Tatiana Moura
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Masculinities in a feminist pedagogy: lessons for transformative gender and agriculture training [PDF]

Frontiers in Sociology
Masculinities and femininities are closely interconnected with men and women farmers’ everyday lives; hence critical reflection on these interconnections should be central in gender training in agriculture.
Amon Ashaba Mwiine, Margaret Najjingo Mangheni, Margaret Najjingo Mangheni, Elizabeth Asiimwe, Elizabeth Asiimwe, Martha Businge, Fred Shimali, Losira Nasirumbi Sanya   +7 more
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Long-term impacts of the Bandebereho programme on violence against women and children, maternal health-seeking, and couple relations in Rwanda: a six-year follow-up of a randomised controlled trialResearch in context

EClinicalMedicine, 2023
Summary: Background: Programmes that work with parents to build couple relationship and parenting skills and include critical reflection on gender norms are a promising approach for reducing violence against women and children. However, there is limited
Kate Doyle, Ruti G. Levtov, Emmanuel Karamage, Deboleena Rakshit, Shamsi Kazimbaya, Felix Sayinzoga, Hassan Sibomana, Silas Ngayaboshya, Fidèle Rutayisire, Gary Barker   +9 more
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MASCULINITIES IN MUSLIM WOMEN`S POST-9/11 NOVELS: MEN IN THE NIGHT COUNTER AND SAFFRON DREAMS

Momentdergi, 2021
This article explores the representation of masculinities in Alia Yunis’ The Night Counter and Shaila Abdullah`s Saffron Dreams. The two novels I examine represent Arab-American and Pakistani-American Muslim masculinities in the post-9/11 context. In the
Özlem Atar
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Masculinity and Lying [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
Dishonesty in communication has important economic implications. The standing literature has shown that lying is less pervasive than predicted by standard economic theory. We explore whether biology can help to explain this behavior. In a sample of men, we study whether masculine traits are related to (dis)honesty in a sender-receiver game.
Vorsatz, Marc, Sanchez-Pages, Santiago, Turiegano, Enrique   +2 more
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Perceptions and Interpretation of Contemporary Masculinities in Western Culture: A Systematic Review

American Journal of Men's Health, 2021
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.
Sandra Connor, Kristina Edvardsson, Christopher Fisher, Evelien Spelten   +3 more
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