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This KC was founded upon a pro-feminist, anti-racist, gay-affirmative agenda with the hope of providing resources to increase multi-cultural competence among male students by providing the NASPA membership with tools to invite and engage men into this process. The underlying assumption is that men in general are interested in social justice, capable of enacting it, and that they need language and a connection to the process.

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Mass Media: Topics in Masculinity #3

It ain't cool to like school ... or is it?
Village Soup Belfast - ME, USA
Masculinity in this culture is defined as being tough, hard-drinking and unemotional, said Gregory, whose own sons are now in their 20s. ...

Kimberly Peirce finds boys who cry
calendarlive.com - Los Angeles,CA,USA
She has always been fascinated by 
masculinity and the working-class culture of fighting and drinking in which she said her father was raised. ...


Straight Acting: The Truth Behind the Myth
Gay Wired - Los Angeles,CA,USA
Straight Acting: Gay Men, 
Masculinity and Finding True Love, the new book from author, columnist and psychotherapist Angelo Pezzote, answers all of these ...


Consortium Offering Sexual Assault Awareness Month Observance Events
The University of Maine - Orono,ME,USA
The films are: on March 19, "Slim Hopes" and "What a Girl Wants"; on March 25, "Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in
Masculinity"; and on April 2, ...


Stephen Robertson - Separating the Men from the Boys: Masculinity ...
The figure of the sexual psychopath and the concept of masculinity both relied on the concept of development to a degree that highlights the growing ...


So You Want To Become a Man
By Brett & Kate McKay 
There are a few events in life that society has deemed as way-points on the road to 
manhood: graduating college and getting a job, getting married, buying your first house and having a child. These seem to be the big ones and, ...

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

.. I have found an interesting website on masculinities: www.masculinities.org - maybe you want to list it in your blog?

Regards, Ryan