The Journal of Men's Studies articles from March 2005

The Journal of Men's Studies archives from March 2005

Asian gay men's bodies.
March 22, 2005... Contemporary males are being viewed differently than they have in the past from a range of perspectives. The culture in which males now exist places far more scrutiny on the aesthetic attributes to determine one's masculine identity. In the...

Heroes, metanarratives, and the paradox of masculinity in contemporary Western culture.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2005... The hero figure spans western literature, from Gilgamesh to Tyler Durden (central character in Chuck Palahniuk's [1996] Fight Club). It is the oldest and most prevalent of all character types, dating from antiquity and remaining to this day the...

Life stories of black male and female professionals: an inquiry into the salience of race and sports.
March 22, 2005... Gilligan (1993) sees "life stories" as "the way that people talk about their lives [as having] significance, that the language they use and the connections they make reveal the world that they see and in which they act" (p. 2). Life stories...

The male villain as domestic tyrant in Daniel Deronda: Victorian masculinities and the cultural context of George Eliot's novel.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2005... In her capacity as "Belles Lettres" reviewer for the "Contemporary Literature" section of the Westminster, Marianne Evans--who later adopted the pseudonym George Eliot and became one of the most popular and influential British novelists of the...

Men talk: an exploratory study of communication patterns and communication apprehension of Black and White males.
March 22, 2005... Black talk, White talk. Is there still a difference? If so, who takes the initiative to make adjustments when communicating with the other? It is often assumed that the dominant culture, being the one in power, dictates social norms including...

The agrarian male: economic and ecological challenges in the new century.
March 22, 2005... An equally appropriate subtitle for this work might be "a view from western North Carolina," because both my personal meditations and my more scholarly explorations here are rooted in this place--grounded in its soils, its streams, its...

Who seeks help? Examining the differences in attitude of Turkish university students toward seeking psychological help by gender, gender roles, and help-seeking experiences.
March 22, 2005... What influences a person to seek help? Studies have looked at numerous factors that influence an individual's help-seeking behaviour such as fear and distress (Deane& Chamberlain, 1994), self-concealment tendency (Cepeda-Benito & Short, 1998;...