The workplace is an important site for the reproduction of men’s masculine power and status. As entrepreneurs, owners, executives, managers, trade unionists and employees, men have both produced and been shaped by the organisations that now...

Since the inception of the modern women’s movement in the 1960s there have been a great many social/political responses that address the place of men and masculinity with respect to this movement. Of course, the women’s movement itself was...

The concept of masculinity is well established; the concept of masculinities is much more recent, dating from the late 1970s. The word ‘masculinity’ derives from the Middle English masculin, from Middle French and from Latin masculinus...

The appearance of distinctly gay masculinities came in the wake of advances made by the homosexual liberation movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Its successor, gay liberation, was less defensive than the earlier homosexual activism and had considerable...

Masculinity is manly character (manliness). It specifically describes men; that is, it is personal and human, unlike male which can describe animals, or masculine which can describe noun classes. When masculine is used to describe men, it can have...

From a matronly silk scarf knotted over the shoulders to a jogging suit in purple duchess satin, Paris menswear designers are challenging traditional notions of masculinity by borrowing elements from the female wardrobe.The Lanvin ready-to-wear show, held on Sunday in an ornate salon of the...

What King purposely didn’t tell you, and Beyond The Down Low author Keith Boykin aptly points out in his New York Times bestseller, is that King’s findings are unfounded and are strictly a scare tactic to line his own pockets. Boykin, a noted author...

It took Bryon Hurt six years to make the kind of movie he wanted to make about hip hop. And with his new documentary, Beyond Beats and Rhymes: A Hip-Hop Head Weighs in on Manhood in Hip-Hop Culture, that dream has finally been realized. ...