Recently added articles from The Journal of Men's Studies:
Fixing men: castration, impotence, and masculinity in Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Years after the publication of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, in an essay entitled "On Editing Kesey: Confessions of a Straight Man," John Clark Pratt recounts an incident that occurred while he visited Kesey on the novelist's Oregon farm. Describing the difficulty he and Kesey were ...
Men's mental health: fatherhood and psychotherapy.(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... The average father's participation in his child's birth and subsequent caretaking is a rather recent phenomenon. In fact, the current increase in men's active participation in the delivery room and in subsequent infant care can be thought of as a revolution in contemporary men's behavior, ...
Angry young men? Masculinities and emotion among young male activists in the global justice movement.(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Researchers in various disciplines within the humanities and social sciences have in different ways acknowledged the cultural and social aspects of emotions. The biological and psychological reactions occurring within the human body and mind, have been related to features such as gender, ...
Male perceptions of intimacy: a qualitative study.(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Many studies examining couples' relationships contend that intimacy is an important if not vital component to relationship satisfaction and well-being (Prager & Buhrmester, 1998). Some research suggests that without intimacy, partners cannot establish trust in the relationship and ...
Buff, tough, and rough: representations of muscularity in action motion pictures.(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Body image may be understood as a multidimensional construct that represents how individuals "think, feel, and behave with regard to their own physical attributes" (Muth & Cash, 1997, p. 1438 as cited in Morrison, Kalin, & Morrison, 2004). Two basic attitudinal elements of body image are ...
The efficacy of Alexithymia Reduction Treatment: a pilot study.(Clinical report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Despite the considerable progress that has been made in developing evidence-based psychotherapeutic treatments (Norcross, Beutler, & Levant, 2005), few treatment outcome studies have evaluated modified or adapted interventions for use with specialized populations, such as those defined by ...
Erratum.(Correction notice)
Jan 01, 2009 ... In McDonagh, Morrison & McGuire (2008, p. 256) (1), the possible range of the DMAQ scale should read 8 to 40 (not 5 to 25). (1) McDonagh, L.K, Morrison, T.G., & McGuire, B.E. (2008) ....
A thousand miles from kind: men, masculinities and modern institutions.(Essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... <Pre>They just sat there and looked back at me .... They had the calmweathered faces of healthy men in hard condition. They had the eyesthey always have, cloudy and grey like freezing water. The firm setmouth, the hard little wrinkles at the comers of the eyes. the hard...
The naked truth: development of a scale designed to measure male body image self-consciousness during physical intimacy.(Report)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Body image has been described as a multidimensional phenomenon that includes self-perceptions and attitudes regarding one's physical appearance. Two core facets of body image attitudes are evaluative thoughts about one's body and the psychological investment or importance one places on ...
Tightening and loosening masculinity's (k)nots: masculinity in the Hearst Press during the interwar period.(Report)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Histories of masculinity have illustrated that its definition varies over time. In the U.S., the communal manhood of the 18th century gave way to the passionate manhood of the 19th century (Rotundo, 1993). Masculinity in the civil war era focused on community participation but shifted to ...
Some like them hot: how Germans construct male attractiveness.(Report)
Sep 22, 2008; ... In this paper we examine the social expectations of male attractiveness-what society thinks an attractive heterosexual man should be like-in contemporary Germany, where popular images and expectations of German men are in transition between the good provider and the nurturing partner and ...
Men and gender mainstreaming: prospects and pitfalls of a European strategy.(Report)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Since the late 1990s, "Gender Mainstreaming" has been the main strategy in European politics to address inequalities between men and women. Going beyond former equality politics that focused on inequality on the labor market and the promotion of women, the definition of Gender ...
Gender role orientation and relational closeness: self-disclosive behavior in same-sex male friendships.(Report)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Although closeness has been defined and measured in various ways (for a review, see Berscheid, Snyder, & Omoto, 1989), lay views of what comprises close friendship often include an open sharing of information about the self, known as self-disclosure. The nature of self-disclosure and its ...
James Bond, Peter Pan, and A Sticky Night of Love: irony and masculinities in amateur animated videos.(Report)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Although YouTube currently dominates online video hosting, for several years numerous smaller sites have fostered the creation of new genres of multi-media production. Sites such as newgrounds.com and albinoblacksheep.com provide forums in which people post, discuss, and rate videos. In ...
Bachelorhood and men's attitudes about gender roles.(Report)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Over 30 million men in the United States have never been married. In fact, the percentage of never-married men grew from 18% in 1965 to the 29% in 2006 (U.S. Bureau of the Census, 2006). The average age at first marriage for men is steadily rising, and more heterosexual men are remaining ...
A room of (his) own: Italian and Italian-American male-bonding spaces and homosociality.(Report)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Virginia Woolf introduced the phrase, "a room of one's own," in the 1928 Cambridge University lectures (Lavender, 1999). Deploring continuing societal constraints on women's intellectual growth and freedom, Woolf argued a female creative writer could never hope to be the productive equal ...
How personal control mediates suffering: elderly husbands' narratives of caregiving.(Report)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Current literature in the broad domain of healthcare addresses suffering as an experience that affects persons, not bodies (Cassell, 1982). This speaks to the all-encompassing nature of suffering as the threat of loss, whether of an integrated existence, of another person, or of the ...
Agency-based male sex work: a descriptive focus on physical, personal, and social space.(Report)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Academic study of prostitution (herein, sex work) has emerged in the last century. Early research focused on female sex work, whereas study of male sex work did not emerge until the last half-century (Bimbi, 2007). Although the term "sex work" comprises a variety of professions (e.g., ...
Where are fathers in American literature? Re-visiting fatherhood in U.S. literary history.(Report)
Mar 22, 2008; ... "What is American about American literature?" One answer to that question is the limited use American writers seem to have made of fatherhood as a theme in their fictional works. Most canonical authors appear to avoid dealing with the issue of fatherhood, which thus remains largely absent ...