Recently added articles from The Journal of Men's Studies:
Of friendship: revisiting friendships between men in American literature.(Report)
Sep 22, 2009; ... Traditionally, the world of emotions has been associated with women and femininity. Since masculinity has traditionally been defined as the opposite of femininity (Segal, 1997), men and masculinities have been usually defined as rational and unemotional. Thus, a large number of masculinity ...
Homosexuality as a risk factor for eating disorder symptomatology in men.(Report)
Sep 22, 2009; ... Empirical research on body image and eating problems has largely focused on women's experiences (e.g., Boisvert & Harrell, 2009; Frederick & Grow, 1996; Fredrickson, Roberts, Noll, Quinn, & Twenge, 1998; McKinley, 1999). More recently, researchers have recognized that men, too, experience ...
Men's friendships: performances of masculinity.(Report)
Sep 22, 2009; ... Masculinity is fragile because it does not exist in the sense we are taught to think it exists that is as a biological reality. It exists as an ideology, it exists as scripted behavior, it exists within gendered relationships. (Kimmel, 2000, p. 501) Given the dominant images ...
Is deceit a masculine virtue? An essay.(Report)
Sep 22, 2009; ... Among the sociologically based humanistic schools of thought, the nascent discipline of Men's Studies is still a babe kicking off its swaddling clothes and seeking its own identity. Weaned on the secular mantra of positivism, the rubric under which Men's Studies is ensconced, the scholar ...
Advertising health status in male sex workers' online ads.(Report)
Sep 22, 2009; ... Individuals' concerns with sexually transmitted infections have and continue to shape their sexual behaviors (e.g., Phua, Hopper, & Vazquez, 2002). For most sex workers, engaging in sexual activities is part of their work but specific sexual acts and frequency of engagement vary depending ...