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Does religion make men less likely to ask for mental health help? Adult men unlearning the lessons they absorbed at twelve How researchers measure masculinity: the scales and their critics How scholars in the global South rewrite hegemonic masculinity theory Lad mags and lad culture: the backlash that ended them What does the warrior archetype express about masculinity? How men's studies scholars answer the charge of speaking for all men What do men's magazines assume their readers care about? Why men skip the safety harness on a two-metre ladder Why do many men bring up their jobs before their families? How masculinity norms shape who gets a diagnosis of depression Why does Men's Health put half-naked men on every cover? Why has the wise old man remained a stock figure across cultures? How did magazine editors respond to feminism in the 1970s? Memoirs by men about failure and recovery Does patriarchy harm men too? Second-hand car meets and male gearhead communities How samurai manhood changed during the Tokugawa peace The masculine role in the family and how scholars describe it Beer culture and the codes of the pub Misogyny vs toxic masculinity: are they the same thing? The Marlboro Man: how advertising invented a male ideal What keeps older male painters working into their eighties? Traditional masculinity: is the old model still workable today? Poker night and other male-only gatherings How do men in the arts balance a creative career with a day job? The psychology of the provider role: how being the breadwinner shapes self-worth The bildungsroman as a male coming-of-age template Comparing the Chinese and Western male writer's confession narrative Why do film trailers sell male leads through violence and female leads through relationships? Which art forms are coded feminine and what happens to men who enter them? Why do so few male characters in TV comedy have close male friends?