He obtained a Ph.D. in sociology in 1985 from the University of California, Berkeley with a dissertation titled Masculinity and Sports: An Exploration of the Changing Meaning of Male Identity in the Lifecourse of the Athlete.
He characterizes it as “an effort to reconcile inner duality, transcend typical masculine ideals and yield to new realities that require constant compromise and change.”
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Recent work has found relationships between Geert Hofstede’s cultural factors, Individualism, Power Distance, Masculinity, and Uncertainty Avoidance, with the average Big Five scores in a country.
In a study that was performed on girls who were more “masculinized” than others, biological determinists John Money and Anke Ehrhardt looked for ways to describe femininity that fit into the common definition of it, such as clothing preference, using makeup, etc.
John Milton Hoberman in Darwin's Athletes: How Sport Has Damaged Black America and Preserved the Myth of Race (1997) writes that "the merger of the athlete, the gangster rapper, and the criminal into a single black male persona ... into the predominant image of black masculinity in the United States and around the world" has harmed racial integration.
Dude, You're a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School (ISBN 978-0520271487) is a book by CJ Pascoe, published in 2007.
To illustrate a cultural mechanism of subordinating alternative masculinities, Halberstam brings up James Bond and Goldeneye as an example, noting that gender performance in this film is far from what is traditional: M is the character who “most convincingly performs masculinity,” Bond can only perform masculinity through his suave clothing and gadgets, and Q can be read “as a perfect model of the interpenetration of queer and dominant regimes.”
Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club (1994) is a book-length study in the field of cultural anthropology of contemporary Japan by Anne Allison.
Rugby union is the national obsession among many white, mostly Afrikaans speaking South Africans, and Pienaar wanted on to explore the homoerotic aspect of the myths and hero-worship with which players are treated, and the constructs which define masculinity in a patriarchal society.
Oben most recently appeared on the Melissa Harris-Perry Show on MSNBC for a special Super Bowl segment which aired on February 3, 2013 and in a segment discussing American conceptions of masculinity which aired on February 23, 2013.
Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man - a 1999 book by Susan Faludi, addressing state of masculinity in late 20th Century America.
Telnyashka has become such evident symbol of masculinity in Soviet culture, that it is sported by dozens of popular non-military characters of the cinema and even children' cartoons, notably The Wolf in the Nu, pogodi and Matroskin the Cat in the Troe iz Prostokvashino.
Christopher Hines' The Adonis Factor is a follow up to another The Butch Factor that tackled gay culture and masculinity.
The poet Patrick Hicks argues that in writing the novel Moore "interrogated the educational system that taught him a version of masculinity that he found unacceptable" and that this enabled him "to become, arguable, one of the first contemporary male novelists with an overtly feminist agenda".