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Michael Kimmel, TED Talk: Why Gender Equality Is Good for Everyone. Men...
Professor of Sociology and Executive Director of the Center for the Study of Men & Masculinities at Stony Brook University (and friend of the blog) Michael Kimmel recently delivered a TED Talk on...
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Another Engaging Men Workshop, Another Abusive Experience
This article by Ashley Maier, published on her website puts forward an important critique about efforts to engage men and boys for gender equality: I presented at the International Conference on...
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“No one else has porn on the phone. It’s pretty sick”: Stigmatizing porn,...
Adapted from Afra, A. & Quigley, J. (2013). ‘Children’s constructions of ‘porn’ in an Irish primary school: Implications for boys. In M. Leane & E. Kiely (eds.). Sexualities and Irish Society....
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Man Hugs – Observing a Serial Hugger!
My best friend in UCD is a serial-hugger. He hugs indiscriminately – men, women, children, dogs, senior lecturers and even heads of state! Sometimes there’s a bit of cheek kissing, other times not....
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Web Series For Teens Debunks Outdated Notions Of Masculinity
Omega Access (OA) is a Toronto based non-profit media group ‘dedicated to the idea that outstanding, real-world men can inspire a new generation to see masculinity as a spectrum and not a binary’...
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Disabled Bodies
Two days ago I read an interesting post at Crip Confessions. The post was titled “But Won’t You be Ashamed? or Cripping Pasties”. A little background is needed. The author is going to the 2016 AVN Expo...
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Dilemma of a Spartan Survivor: War, Disability and Masculinity
The widespread purge of modern artistic expression that occurred upon Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in Germany in 1933 was motivated by fear. The Nazi regime was determined to use culture to control the...
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Relational masculinities: The fragility of modern gender categories
What does it mean to be a man? Is masculinity purely biological or is it shaped by social and relational factors? Can a man’s relationship with a romantic partner have the power to legitimize or...
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“About Gender” Journal Calls for Articles on Current State of Masculinities...
AG About Gender, International Journal of Gender Studies, has announced a call for articles for its eleventh issue entitled Masculinities:Trans/forming Men: Changes, Resiliences and Reconfigurations,...
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Book Review: Contesting Intersex: The Dubious Diagnosis
The question of intersex is one that challenges not only the medical community, but our entire society, encouraging us to see gender and sex (and even sexuality) as more complicated and nuanced than we...
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