Masculinity - Topics

What does the absent or distant father figure mean in modern painting? Which art forms are coded feminine and what happens to men who enter them? How do male musicians negotiate fatherhood and touring? How do men in the arts balance a creative career with a day job? What keeps older male painters working into their eighties? The rise of the sad man era in prestige television Why do film trailers sell male leads through violence and female leads through relationships? What is the Bechdel Test for men and does it actually measure anything? Why do so few male characters in TV comedy have close male friends? Hemingway and the friendship between men in fiction Gay male literature and the writers who made it visible Is there such a thing as a masculine prose style? Car and motoring magazines and their reader rituals What do men's magazines assume their readers care about? How did magazine editors respond to feminism in the 1970s? Why did Playboy stop being the men's magazine of record? The Wire: a television work about men and institutions Films that explore fatherhood and estrangement Breaking Bad and the male ego's slow unraveling Car culture and the rituals of men who restore old engines Why do men stand at urinals and say nothing? Why has the wise old man remained a stock figure across cultures? How does ritual mark the transition from boy to man in different societies? How researchers measure masculinity: the scales and their critics What the plural word masculinities means in current scholarship Critiques of toxic masculinity from inside masculinity studies How samurai manhood changed during the Tokugawa peace How does faith shape what it means to be a man? The 21st century male is the hardest category to close "Sissy" vs "pretty boy": how insults police which masculinity is allowed Why did the midlife crisis become a male novel genre after 1950? The male midlife story in contemporary fiction