Masculinity - Topics

Why has the hunter archetype declined in modern storytelling? Why gay men still get asked who plays the woman in the relationship The four types of masculinity in Connell's model and their critics Masculinity vs biological sex: what the concept actually covers Why men tie their self-worth so tightly to achievement Lawyer novels and the male professional antihero What does rigid gender roles cost men? Why do male novelists avoid writing female interiority? The death of the lad mag: what FHM and Maxim sold to men Critiques of toxic masculinity from inside masculinity studies Hemingway and the friendship between men in fiction Men's magazines in Japan and the marriage story Do men really overestimate their own competence or is the confidence gap measured wrong How do male musicians negotiate fatherhood and touring? How psychologists measure traditional masculinity ideology and what the scale predicts What sources let historians reconstruct masculinity in the Middle Ages? Why do boys quit piano lessons at around age twelve? The male midlife story in contemporary fiction The small cues strangers read when they decide you are a man Fantasy football leagues as a form of male social life Why men respond differently to competition in laboratory experiments What does the absent or distant father figure mean in modern painting? Does the tough-it-out script really keep men out of clinics? Which Greek and Roman sculptures set the standard for the athletic male form? Why is Rodin's Thinker read as a portrait of masculine interiority? Why does Michelangelo's David still define the ideal male body in art? How does ritual mark the transition from boy to man in different societies? The 21st century male is the hardest category to close How did the suit come to symbolize male power? How historians periodize changing ideals of manhood from antiquity to modernity Does masculinity live in behavior or in the ideas attached to it? How did the 1970s Men's Liberation movement see masculinity?