This thesis examines the portrayal of masculinity as an unsolvable problem, or an open wound, in Stephen Kings The Shining, Pet Sematary, Rose Madder, Blaze, and Doctor Sleep. It uses theories from social and cultural ...

It is very frequent that the peoples identify as synonymous sex and masculinity, the masculinity it builds in the process of socialization of the individual, that begins with the birth and it extends during all your life. ...

On April 14th, 2014, Boko Haram seized a Governmental School in Chibok, abducting 276 girls to force them to convert to Islam. These events have thus been examined in accordance to International Security and Government ...

In an attempt to find in Macbeth a transcendental view of manhood, this article offers a brief description of some of the ways in which Shakespeare pursues the fragmentation of gender barriers and problematizes traditional ...

Drawing on multisited ethnographic fieldwork and performance analysis, this book centers on an insular community of Smarta brahmin men from the Kuchipudi village in Telugu-speaking South India, who are required to don ...

The text offers a tour through different representations of male characters in American generalist television that are beyond the classical representation of the male characters that were depicted as traditionally strong ...

In this autoethnographic essay I reflect on the relationship between hegemonic masculinity and paid work. I draw on my own experience, witnessing my father retire at age 32 because of a mental illness that confined him to ...