The Journal of Men's Studies back issues from March 2004:
Between a rock and a hard place: men caught in the gender bind of early childhood education.
Mar 22, 2004; ... This article is about the lives of men who have made the difficult choice of working with young children. Contrary to what has been asserted in much of the current literature, men in Early Childhood Education (ECE) are, in many ways, classic tokens. In-depth interviews with men who are ...
"The most blatant of all our American myths": masculinity, male bonding, and the wilderness in Sinclair Lewis's Mantrap.(Critical Essay)
Mar 22, 2004; ... On a harrowing canoe trip in the Canadian backcountry, Ralph Prescott, the neurasthenic lawyer and hero of Sinclair Lewis's Mantrap (1926), realizes that he has made a serious mistake. Drawn to this misguided adventure by the "most blatant of all our American myths: roughing it in the ...
Masculinities in older men: a qualitative study in the West of Scotland.
Mar 22, 2004; ... While social scientists have historically taken men to be the "normal" subjects of research, it is only recently that studies of "men-as-men" [i.e., as "engendered and engendering persons" (Gutmann, 1997)] have been undertaken. Previously, gender was only taken into account when women were ...
The "New Man" is in the house: young men, social change, and housework.
Mar 22, 2004; ... Compared to a generation ago, married women are more involved in the paid labor force. This has led many scholars and journalists to argue that housework is slowly being transformed, with men doing more housework, women doing less, and outside help being utilized more often. Underpinned by ...
We're here, we're queer--and we're better than you: the representational superiority of gay men to heterosexuals on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.(Critical Essay)
Mar 22, 2004; ... During summer 2003, Bravo's new reality series Queer Eye for the Straight Guy became a breakout hit and one of the most talked-about television programs of the year. This latest take on the makeover format features five gay men who swoop into the life of a heterosexual man in distress as ...
Railroads, racism, and region: re-reading the apocalyptic "southern grotesque".
Mar 22, 2004; ... Railroading in the U.S. has been and continues to be a predominantly male world of masculine imagery--phallic steam engines, thrusting drive pistons, and testosterone-thrilling power. There have been notable exceptions, of course, such as the bevy of chaste "Harvey Girls" who served the ...
Evolution of male circumcision as normative control.
Mar 22, 2004; ... The aim of this review is to delineate the beliefs that reify the ritual of circumcising male infants. The practice of circumcising is perpetuated on a generalized fear of an intangible peril, which has taken many forms throughout the course of history. In each evolving normative system, ...
Deconstructing self-defense in wife-to-husband violence.
Mar 22, 2004; ... Over the years, community responses to wives' violence against their husbands have been diverse, although the overall general attitude has been one of both tolerance and dismissiveness. When alleged violence by wives was first reported, many critics dismissed such wife-initiated violence ...