Journal of Men's Studies

Examining Masculine Gender-Role Conflict and Stress in Relation to Religious Orientation and Spiritual Well-Being in Australian Men

This study investigated the relationship between masculine gender- role conflict and stress factors, on one hand, and religious orientation and spiritual well-being, on the other, using a sample of Australian men. Participants were separated into two groups based on their self-reported level of religiousness. There were 73 participants in the religious group (who described themselves as "somewhat," "very," or "extremely religious") and 70 participants in the non-religious group (who identifie...

Narrating (French) Masculinities: Building Male Identity in André Gide's the Immoralist

After [Michel Foucault]'s illness and while he is developing his strength, he performs a heroic act uncharacteristic of his "old self." While walking to visit the Italian town of Positano, where he would rejoin [Marceline] traveling by carriage, Michel recognizes her driver from along the road, the latter evidently intoxicated and driving recklessly. At the collapse of the man's horse, Michel drags the man from his carriage, strikes him, drawing blood, and ties him up. It seems that this show...

Soldiers Once and Still by Alex Vernon.

According to Alex Vernon, author of Soldiers Once and Still, the American literary war experience has been shaped by Ernest Hemingway, and the literary style embodied by Hemingway (heroic male and thwarted love) has continued largely uninterrupted for almost a century. In essence, For Whom The Bell Tolls did more than tell a simple war/love story; rather, it set a tone and locked in several generations of American fiction writers. In Vernon's view, Hemingway's hold is only now beginning to be...

Male Adolescents' Contributions to Household Labor As Predictors of Later-Life Participation in Housework

According to [Lipman-Blumen] (1984), latent socialization occurs when individuals are indirectly socialized into atypical sex roles. Children growing up in nuclear family settings have the opportunity to study, learn, and "try on" the roles and, by extension, the household tasks associated with the opposite gender. Through observation and experimentation with masculine and feminine behavior, she notes children "indirectly and implicitly" learn the gender roles and behavior of the "other" sex....

Western Heterosexual Masculinity, Anxiety, and Web Porn

The women of SlutBus are sluts, skanks, crazy bitches, tramps, or whores (one, at least, is a "cock bucket").(15) All are "fucked hard," and some are "shredded"; whereas others need "stuffing." Emotional detachment and sexual objectification is also manifested at those moments in the narrative at which the women are presented as deserving their treatment. Usually this is because they entered the SlutBus in the first place. "Hey, didn't you parents tell you not to take rides from strangers?" D...

Manliness and Its Discontent: The Black Middle Class and the Transformation of Masculinity, 1900-1930 by Martin Summers.

[Summers] anchors his work around two major themes, the first of which is manliness. He postulates that these two key men's organizations, the Masons and UNIA, played significant roles in the development of middle-class masculinities, arguing that the major contribution that these organizations, one fraternal and one nationalist, gave to the formation of Black middle-class masculinities was "character and responsibility" (p. 27). Both groups felt that these two attributes were essential ingre...

Masculinity Ideology in Russian Society: Factor Structure and Validity of the Multicultural Masculinity Ideology Scale

A research agenda exploring the experience of being a male in post-Soviet society is urgently needed. Many male issues investigated by Western researchers are of particular concern in Russia, such as substance abuse (Capraro, 2000; Pleck, Sonenstien, & Ku, 1993a), psychological distress (Good, Heppner, Hillenbrand-Gunn, & Wang, 1995; Good, Robertson, [Fitzgerald, L.F.], Stevens, & Bartels, 1996), potential for violence (Janey & Robertson, 2000; [Thoreson, R.W.], Shaughnessy, C...

Exploring Sociocultural Borderlands: Journeying, Navigating, and Embodying a Queer Identity

I don't know; I'm kind of rough emotionally. I've gotta say, because my mom always told us, you know, what's the point of crying? I mean it doesn't get nothing done; you just cry. So, it's not bad to have emotions; it's just useless, and it's pointless, so you just look ahead, move on, you know? But you know, sometimes you have to cry, and it's just move on, you know, life goes on, and you can't let it stop. I guess I'm very empathetic, you know? I can put myself in other people's shoes. I ca...

Researching Sensitive Topics Through Autoethnographic Means

Account-making refers to "people's story-like construction of events that include explanations, descriptions, predictions about relevant future [and past] events and affective reaction" (Harvey, Orbuch, Chwalisz, & Garwood, 1991, p. 516). In autoethnographic account-making, personal experiences are delineated, explicated, and communicated to the greater audience of researchers and lay people in order to help them better understand people's actions, reactions, motives, and psychoemotional ...

Conferring Meaning Onto Alcohol-Related Violence: An Analysis of Alcohol Use and Gender in a Sample of College Youth

Multiple forms of masculinity exist and are hierarchically structured ([Connell, R.W.], 1995). Stigma associated with less valued masculine types produce pressure to conform to the demands of hegemonic or dominant forms of masculinity. Barrett (1996) examined hegemonic forms of masculinity with the U.S. Navy and found toughness, risk taking, and reliance upon violence to be exemplars of a dominant type of masculinity existing within this specified context (see also Donaldson, 1993). Furthermo...