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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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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.
Kristina Edvardsson, Christopher Fisher, Sandra Connor   +2 more
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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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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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‘Iron women’ dislodging ‘provider masculinities’: Why Connell’s framework of Hegemonic Masculinities is ‘useful but unhelpful’? [version 1; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations]

Routledge Open Research, 2023
Since its introduction into the field of men and masculinities, Connell’s theoretical framework of hegemonic masculinities has been widely applied even in contexts outside the Western gender order for which it was originally intended.
Thoko Sipungu
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Operationalising masculinities in theories and practices of gender-transformative health interventions: a scoping review

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2023
Gender-transformative health interventions that involve men and boys are gaining global reach, adaptability to specific geographical, population and epidemiological contexts, public endorsement, and conceptual sophistication.
Julia Zielke, Stephanie Batram-Zantvoort, Oliver Razum, Céline Miani   +3 more
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PositivMasc: masculinities and violence against women among young people. Identifying discourses and developing strategies for change, a mixed-method study protocol

BMJ Open, 2020
Introduction Despite public policies and legislative changes aiming to curtail men’s violence against women (VAW) around the world, women continue to be exposed to VAW throughout their life.
N Daoud, M Salazar, Claire Edwards, Margaret Scanlon, C Vives-Cases   +4 more
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The violence of the masculine ideal: A case for nomadic masculinities

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2018
In this article, I argue that a different kind of discourse on Christian masculinities in post-apartheid South Africa is possible despite the prevalence of largely idealised and politically conservative ideologies of masculinities promoted primarily ...
Siphiwe I. Dube
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