Changes in salivary estradiol predict changes in women’s preferences for vocal masculinity [PDF]
Although many studies have reported that women’s preferences for masculine physical characteristics in men change systematically during the menstrual cycle, the hormonal mechanisms underpinning these changes are currently poorly understood.
Katarzyna Pisanski +59 more
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“I’m Here to Do Business. I’m Not Here to Play Games.” Work, Consumption, and Masculinity in \u3ci\u3eStorage Wars\u3c/i\u3e [PDF]
This essay examines the first season of Storage Wars and suggests the program helps mediate the putative crisis in American masculinity by suggesting that traditional male skills are still essential where knowledge supplants manual labor.
Kelly, Casey R., Rademacher, Mark A.
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Doing gender locally: The importance of ‘place’ in understanding marginalised masculinities and young men’s transitions to ‘safe’ and successful futures [PDF]
Observable anxieties have been developing about the position of boys and young men in contemporary society in recent years. This is expressed as a crisis of masculinity, in which place is often implicitly implicated, but is rarely considered for its role
Anderson E. +29 more
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Petro-masculinity: Fossil Fuels and Authoritarian Desire
As the planet warms, new authoritarian movements in the West are embracing a toxic combination of climate denial, racism and misogyny. Rather than consider these resentments separately, this article interrogates their relationship through the concept of ...
Cara Daggett
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What’s Hegemonic about Hegemonic Masculinity? Legitimation and Beyond
Raewyn Connell’s theoretical concept of hegemonic masculinity has been profoundly influential in feminist sociology. Despite the rich literature inspired by her theory, conceptual ambiguities have compromised its full potential.
Yuchen Yang
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Never the twain shall meet: a critical appraisal of the combination of discourse and psychoanalytic theory in studies of men and masculinity [PDF]
In recent years there has been a number of attempts by different researchers to study men and masculinity using a combination of discourse theory and psychoanalysis.
A. Nayak +57 more
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In recent years, masculinity has become an imperative and influential academic discourse in the domain of gender studies. Despite having been explained and theorised from a number of perspectives, it lacks overall clarity and vary widely across ...
Anisur Rahman Khan, Shahriar Khandaker
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Facial masculinity: how the choice of measurement method enables to detect its influence on behaviour. [PDF]
Recent research has explored the relationship between facial masculinity, human male behaviour and males' perceived features (i.e. attractiveness). The methods of measurement of facial masculinity employed in the literature are quite diverse.
Santiago Sanchez-Pages +2 more
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Departing from the archetype of “manly” man: a portrait of a man in Scenes from a Marriage (2021) [PDF]
The aim of the article is to discuss the portrayal of masculinities in Scenes from a Marriage (2021) in which the departure from the archetype of a “manly” man is presented and inclusive masculinity is introduced.
Natalia Jaworańska
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Męskości argentyńskie a Trans-Atlantyk Witolda Gombrowicza
The article takes up an issue of structuring two different models of masculinity that are presented on the pages of Gombrowicz’s novel. Confrontation of anachronistic, Polish, Sarmatian masculinity and modern otherness of South American masculinity
Tomasz Kaliściak
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