Men Do It Too: Opting Out and In offers a timely and comprehensive analysis of the phenomenon of men leaving mainstream careers models, adding to current debates on opting out. The book investigates how globalization, individualization, and this age of high modernity, in additio…
This book explores how and why Scottish Highlanders, Punjabi Sikhs, and Nepalese Gurkhas became identified as the British Empire's fiercest, most manly soldiers in nineteenth century discourse. As 'martial races' these men were believed to possess a biological or cultural dispos…
The first inside look at how sex workers use webcams to make a living The erotic webcam industry, also known as "camming," is a thriving global business. Angela Jones takes readers inside this multi-billion dollar industry, revealing how its workers experience intimacy, communit…
This dissertation seeks to introduce a new approach to the analysis of men’s violence and masculinities in the context of the United States. I focus on the concept of control—understood here as a spectrum of interrelated modes of violence that assert mastery over the self and ot…
This dissertation examines the interrelation between concepts of masculinity among the laity and the clergy in the Merovingian era of Gaul, fifth to seventh centuries. In doing so, the work aims to fill a gap in current scholarship by examining the relationship between religious…
Traditional masculinity ideology and conformity to specific masculine norms have been associated with dozens of negative outcomes, including increased depression, violent behavior, and low esteem (O'Neil, 2012). Gender conceptions can also be positively constructed in men to res…
Black, Muslim, and Gay/Queer Male Allies: An Intersectional Analysis of Men's Gender Justice Activism explores how intersecting privileged and marginalized identities shape men's efforts to reduce gendered oppression. While there is an increasing consensus among feminist scholar…
This thesis is an ethnographic study of two local institutions within the community of Fallin which explores how twenty-four men understand, maintain and reproduce community and belonging. Throughout, the thesis suggests that the past acts as a stable reference point for the men…
Based on a nine-month ethnographic study of a young offenders' institution in Belfast this thesis explores the needs and experiences of young men imprisoned in Northern Ireland through the lens of critical masculinities studies. The Prison Review Team has described Hydebank, and…
This work explores the relationships between the creation and representation of diverse masculinities in Mexico and their link to the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). It specifically focuses on the relationship between the economic and political crisis of the Mexican Sta…
This dissertation examines masculinities in relation to Pahlavi-era Iran, the Islamic Republic of Iran, within diaspora, as well as the limitations of an ethno-cultural/gender study through ideologies of postidentification. "Performing Persianicity" functions as trope and design…
This dissertation addresses the Ijaw/Ijo armed resistance movement for self-determination waged by young men against multinational oil companies and the Federal Government of Nigeria in the Niger Delta. I investigated the reciprocity of violence, the transgression of social orde…
This dissertation examines representations of working men in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century English stage plays. I focus particularly on dramatic representations of the working male body and the discourses of masculinity that are deployed by these representations.…
This qualitative research investigation explored the relationship bonds that are formed between men in a military unit during war in order to integrate the findings with the psycho-therapeutic process. Ten individual interviews and two focus group sessions were held, and afterwa…
