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Examples of masculinity

masculinity
And these films had a profound effect on style, slang and notions of masculinity.
The second part concentrated more specifically on exploring their understandings of masculinity and femininity in relation to soldiering.
It also provided a positive alternative to local youth cultures, which young women experienced as dominated by young men cultivating a hard and sexualised masculinity.
The association of masculinity with the cerebral and femininity with the physical perhaps explains women's exclusion from credibility on these grounds.
In part this is a corollary of her discussion of masculinity, and its moderation.
It is also a white-collar masculinity, and while 'nerds ' are marginalised, they also gain a form of power through their technical mastery.
This sense of something missing in men's talk is the strongest evidence of some kind of crisis in contemporary masculinity.
Many of these texts contain references to women as agents of men's domination and as true signifiers of masculinity in their confirmation of male domination.
To point to this fragility in relation to other masculinities is not to deny middle-class men's social power over women or the lower classes.
The second finding is that there is an indexical or even iconic relationship (as argued here) between vernaculars and masculinity.
They argue that the stereotypical view associating masculinity with technology was nevertheless reserved for certain kinds of machines.
Ideological normative masculinity is strongly linked to life stage.
The use of the particle thus indirectly indexes gender: used by a man, it indexes masculinity.
How do cultural discourses of masculinity structure the men's desires, and thus who they find most attractive, or "cool"?
Cultural discourses of masculinity thus refer to the ways that men are assumed by the majority of society to act, talk, and feel.
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