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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]

open access: yes, 2015
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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Effects of chronic browsing on life‐history traits of an irruptive large herbivore population

open access: yesPopulation Ecology, EarlyView.
This study aimed to determine the relationship between diet quality, body mass, and size (hind foot length), and female reproduction and sought to identify the mechanism by which high density under severe food limitations is maintained. Our results demonstrated that sika deer introduced to Nakanoshima Island have maintained high densities through high ...
Koichi Kaji   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Masculinities and Globalization

open access: yesMen 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.
openaire   +3 more sources

Reconstituting manhood: examining post-conflict remasculinisation and its effects on women and women’s rights in Afghanistan [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Masculinity has always occupied a central position in Afghan culture and identity. Historically it has expressed itself through the designation of female behaviour as standards by which to judge male honour and social status.
Gilani, Sabrina
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Combining transient dynamics and logistic‐asymptotic growth to study the recovery of two seabird populations after rat eradication

open access: yesPopulation Ecology, EarlyView.
This study examines the demographic dynamics of two seabird populations on Tromelin Island, 15 years after the eradication of brown rats. The results indicate that these populations are in good health and are expected to continue growing until breeding sites are saturated in about a century.
Merlène Saunier   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

REPRESENTASI MASKULINITAS MODERN LAKI-LAKI JEPANG DALAM FILM PERFECT WORLD BERDASARKAN SEMIOTIKA BARTHES

open access: yesLite: Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, dan Budaya, 2021
: This paper aims to provide an overview of the concept of masculinity in Japanese society today which is represented by the main character in “Perfect World” film.
Fajria Noviana
doaj   +1 more source

Chinatown Black Tigers: Black Masculinity and Chinese Heroism in Frank Chin\u27s Gunga Din Highway [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Images of ominous villains and asexual heroes in literature and mainstream American culture tend to relegate Asian American men to limited expressions of masculinity.
Anderson, Crystal S.
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The unpredictably eruptive dynamics of spruce budworm populations in eastern Canada

open access: yesPopulation Ecology, EarlyView.
We examine historical population data for spruce budworm from several locations through the period 1930–1997, and use density‐dependent recruitment curves to test whether the pattern of population growth over time is more consistent with Royama's (1984; Ecological Monographs 54:429–462) linear R(t) model of harmonic oscillation at Green River New ...
Barry J. Cooke, Jacques Régnière
wiley   +1 more source

Masculinity and Men’s Resistance to Meat Reduction

open access: yesPsychology of Human-Animal Intergroup Relations, 2023
This article conceptualizes meat reduction as a masculinity threat for men and presents strategies for making men more receptive to meat reduction. Meat consumption is stereotypically associated with traditional masculinity.
Daniel L. Rosenfeld
doaj   +1 more source

How females perceive masculine advertising models? : Master of Business Study in Marketing at Albany Campus, Massey University, New Zealand [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This research helps to discover: (1) relevant masculinity types for male advertising models in China; (2) Chinese female consumers’ reaction to different masculinity types of male advertising models; (3) different characteristics of Chinese females ...
Xu, Yujun
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