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...

Deconstructing Masculinity Masculine Domination. By Pierre Bourdieu, Trans. Righard Nice. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2001. 'Every parent knows girls are outperforming boys at school. But while educators argue about what to do, boys continue to suffer.' (Richard Yallop, 'The trouble with boys', Weekend...

Many groups of men have been marginalized by discrimination. These include African Americans, Asian Americans, gay men, Native Americans, poor men, old men, and non-Christian men. The essentialist argument that biological gender and race determine behavior is too simplistic to account for much human...

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...