Recently added articles from The Journal of Men's Studies:
James Bond, Peter Pan, and A Sticky Night of Love: irony and masculinities in amateur animated videos.(Report)
Mar 22, 2008; Kendall, Lori ... 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; Pitt, Richard N. ... 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; Weibel-Orlando, Joan ... 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; Black, Helen K. ... 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; Smith, Michael D. ... 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; Armengol-Carrera, Josep M. ... "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 ...