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• Acknowledgements
• 1. Finding Sexual Difference
• 2. Psychoanalysis and Sexual Difference
• 3. Inside the Dream
• 4. Masculine Mastery and Fantasy, Or the Meaning of the Phallus
• 5. The Seeds of Masculine Sexuality
• 6. Transgressing Sexual Difference References Index.
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Sexual Difference is a critical exploration of psychoanalytic theories of sexual difference. In particular it explores the way in which masculinity is expressed in theory and practice. Developing from the unsettling impact of these issues on the author's own professional practice, Stephen Frosh examines how the very language and structure of psychoanalysis are loaded with assumptions about gender. Employing both Kleinian and Lacanian theoretical perspectives this book critically examines these approacheds to sexial difference. In addition, it discusses the application of these issues in the practice of treating sexual violence and in cases of child secual abuse. Sexual Difference will be of value to all trainees and professionals in psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, psychology and social work, as well as all those with an interest in `masculinity', `femininity' and their effects.
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• Part I: Theoretical Models Liu, Shepard, Masculinity Competency Typology for Men Who Migrate. Ratele, Suffla, Men, Masculinity, and Cultures of Violence and Peace in South Africa. Ricciardelli, Williams, Role of Masculinity and Femininity in the Development and Maintenance of Health Risk Behaviors. Blazina, Multiplicity and the Masculine Self: A Working Model of Masculinity. Kiselica, Promoting Positive Masculinity While Addressing Gender Role Conflict: A Balanced Theoretical Approach to Clinical Work with Boys and Men. Part II: Masculinity, Sexuality, Health Behaviors, and Body Image Drummond, Men's Bodies throughout the Life Span. Ryan, Morrison, Men's Body Image Evaluation and Investment: A Review of Key Theoretical Frameworks. Pandya, Voices of Invisibles: Coping Responses of Men Who Have Sex with Men. Part III: Clinical Innovations and Programs for Men Payarola, Description of a Voluntary Attendance Program for Abusive Men. Beebe, Archetypal Aspects of Masculine Adaptation. Madsen, Between Autonomy and Attachment: Psychotherapy for Men with Postnatal Depression. Tremblay, L'Heureux, Therapeutic Work with More Traditional Men: The Importance of Having a Structured Process. O'Neil, Exploring the Psychology of Russian Men with Russian Psychologists during My Fulbright Scholarship in the Former Soviet Union.
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This text is the first to provide a contextual understanding of the clinical issues that affect men and masculinity across a wide range of cultural and national settings. It demonstrates that gender can no longer be viewed as an isolated characteristic; in an era of increased globalization, mental health professionals need to take ethnic and cultural issues into account to provide adequate care for male patients. Numerous international perspectives are offered by the contributing authors, authorities from countries such as Australia, Argentina, Denmark, Canada, India, Ireland, and South Africa, on theoretical and clinical innovations for working with men. Their chapters also offer insight into the socio-cultural contexts for counseling men in and from their respective countries by exploring the ways in which "being a man" is socially defined, what unique challenges men face, and how these challenges can be negotiated within their specific cultural settings. Topics addressed will include boyhood notions of manhood, relationship concerns and power, fatherhood, and men's body image across the life span. This text will ultimately enable mental health practitioners to have a better understanding of how to work more effectively with male clients.
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The psychology of men and masculinities is a broad, interdisciplinary field devoted to the study of how men's and boys' lives are shaped by biopsychosociocultural influences as well as the constellation of meanings associated with the male biological sex. The use of the term ""masculinities"" reflects the editors' belief that there are diverse meanings associated with being male that vary across time, situations, social groups, and cultures. In the past three decades, there has been an exponential growth in empirical psychological research on men and masculinities, although this emerging body of research has yet to be appropriately summarized, synthesized, and critically evaluated. This APA handbook addresses that lack with a strong focus on psychological science. It tackles the full spectrum of the theoretical, empirical, and practical, not only focusing on the extant literature in traditional areas of men and masculinities, but also highlighting new and emerging scholarship.> The handbook is divided into four sections. The first section addresses historical, conceptual, and methodological issues. Readers will be exposed to a wide range of theoretical perspectives on men and masculinities (e.g., biological, evolutionary, social norms, gender role conflict, social constructionist, and feminist) as well as methodological (quantitative and qualitative) approaches to studying men and masculinities. The second section examines specific populations of men with a strong focus on developmental, cultural, and sexual orientation diversity. The third section focuses on specific topics relevant to men's lives, such as careers, education, sexism, violence, and emotions. The fourth and final section addresses several application domains, including men's helping seeking patterns, physical health, mental health, and experience of psychotherapy. Each chapter investigates future directions, along with unresolved issues or emerging concerns.
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• Preface 1.Hegemony and Beyond 2.Masculinities as Structured Action 3.Wimps: Sam and Jerry 4.Genderqueers: Jessie and Morgan 5.Presidents: Bush and Obama Conclusions References Index.
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In Masculinities in the Making, James W. Messerschmidt unravels the mysteries surrounding the question of how masculinities are actually "made." One of the most respected scholars on the subject of masculinities, Messerschmidt brings together three seemingly disparate groups-wimps, genderqueers, and U.S. presidents-to examine what insight each has to offer our understanding of masculinities. The book is unique in its coverage, including a revised structured action theory; an intersectional analysis of sex, gender, and sexuality; and an examination of the differences among masculinities from the local to the global. Messerschmidt provides a fresh, accessible, and provocative argument that significantly advances our knowledge on masculinities.
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• Introduction
• 1. Metrosexual Masculinities through the Lens of Discursive Approaches
• 2. Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Trends in Men's Image-conscious Practices
• 3. Body Image: I Can Work With That
• 4. Masculinities: Before and After
• 5. I Cyber Surf Therefore I Am
• 6. Square Peg in a Round Hole: Locating Metrosexuality
• 7. Who am I?: Mapping Boundaries
• 8. It's For Serious Men: Manscaping
• 9. It's What Women Want: Groin Shaving
• 10. Look More Chiselled: Masculinity and Cosmetics
• 11. The Final Frontier: Endorsing Cosmetics
• 12. What does it All Mean?
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With a foreword by Brendan Gough. Modern men the world over are becoming increasingly fascinated with their image, spending more of their disposable income on beautification products and services. Indeed, many men report these as essential for employment and social progression. But do these relatively new developments - aspects of so called metrosexuality - signal a challenge to the dominance of traditional masculinities? Departing from traditional sociological explanations, this book examines the phenomenon psychologically, from the perspective of the self-identified metrosexual in online talk, highlighting the negotiation and construction of masculinities and sexualities in the twenty-first century.
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• Introduction.-
• Part 1: Theoretical Models: New Directions in Gender Role Conflict Research.- Will the Real Joseph Gelfer Please Stand Up: Multiple Masculinities and the Self.-
• Part 2: Masculinity and Stability.- Youthful Warrior Masculinities in Indonesia.- Men of Honor: Examining Individual Differences in Masculine Honor Beliefs.- "Men are Hard...Women are Soft": Muslin Men and the Construction of Masculine Identity.-
• Part 3: Masculinity Under Negotiation: Making the Global Bhadralok?: Bengali Men and the Transnational Middle Class in India.- Better Men?" Gendered Culturalized Citizenship in Male Emancipation Projects in the Netherlands.- Fluid Masculinities? Case Study of the Kingdom of Bahrain.- Masculinity in Ambiguity: Constructing Taiwanese Masculine Identities between Great Powers.- Historical Sediments of Competing Gender Models in Indigenous Guatemala.-
• Part 4: Sexuality: Hypospadias, the "Bathroom Panopticon" and Men's Psychological and Social Urinary Practices.- Cannibals and Ghosts: Forms of Capital, Immobility and Dependence Among Former Javanese Sex Workers in South Bali.- Transgender Identity and Acceptance in a Global Era: The Muxes of Juchitan.
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Masculinities in a Global Era extends the conversation of masculinity studies by analyzing global masculinities from a psychological perspective. Canvassing a broad array of psychological aspects such as the construction of identity, the negotiation of power, coping with trauma, and sexuality, this volume shows how masculinities are experienced, performed and embodied in geographically dispersed communities. Importantly, Masculinities in a Global Era fulfills a much-needed but elusive need within the study of masculinities: a forum in which the often polarized approaches of pro-feminists and men's rights advocates can begin to move beyond their entrenched historical positions towards a more fruitful and nuanced future.
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Have you ever wondered? * Why it's so hard to get close to a man. * Why don't men express emotions except big ones like anger and frustration? * Why most perversion is male; why most pornography is produced by men for men? Risk taking is male; drinking, drug taking, gambling and infidelity are predominantly the preserve of men? * Why most criminal behavior is perpetrated by men? Why the vast majority of domestic abuse and violence is perpetrated by men? * Why men are so concerned with the size of their penis and its symbolic substitutes - big, powerful cars, status, big houses, big money, and big muscles? * Why can't men tolerate vulnerability? * Why men lie, don't listen, don't do housework, parenting? The answers to these questions, is the aim of this book. The author asks what it means to be a man, and what part masculinity play in men's identity. What is it like to have to spend so much time and energy in managing that identity? Adam Jukes has spent most of his professional life working with troubled and disturbed men, and in 1984 he opened one of the world's first treatment centers to address men's abusive and violent behavior towards women, from verbal and emotional abuse through to stalking and murder. In the following decades that work developed into a clinical examination of masculinity and the author now shares his insights and conclusions with the reader. Juke's conclusions about what constructs masculinity and how it develops may be unpalatable to some but it is also thought provoking and intriguing to anyone who has an interest in these issues whether professional or personal, male or female, wife or lover, sister or brother, husband or father.
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• Preface. Acknowledgments.
• 1 Overview.
• 2 Social Context and Masculinities.
• 3 Diffi culties of Defi nitions and Masculinity as a Social Construct.
• 4 Psychological and Interactive Models of Masculinity.
• 5 Origins and Locations of Masculinities: Social Models.
• 6 Origins and Locations of Masculinities: Psychological Models.
• 7 Origins and Locations of Masculinities: Interactive and Social Constructionist Models.
• 8 Men in Crisis.
• 9 The Crisis in Masculinity: Essentialist Perspective.
• 10 The Crisis in Masculinity: Psychosocial Perspective.
• 11 The Crisis in Masculinity: Social Constructionist Perspective.
• 12 Putting it All Together: Next Steps for Masculinities. Masculinities Terms. References. Author Index. Subject Index.
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In the last thirty years, there has been a tremendous growth in the academic inquiry to understand men in their experiences as men. This growth is largely due to growing awareness of the problems that people face in trying to understand what it means to be masculine. This text introduces students to the research, theories, and basic issues in the field of Men and Masculinities, highlighting debates about the definition, origin, and the crisis in masculinity. The author provides a framework for studying the field of masculinities incorporating feminist, social constructionist, and interdisciplinary perspectives. Written in an accessible style, "An Introduction to Masculinities" provides personal anecdotes and contemporary examples to make the theoretical concepts relevant to students' lives. The text also introduces students to leading contributors and experts whose work have informed the field. The author gives the reader a context and structure by which they can critically understand and evaluate information about men and masculinities. An Instructor's Manual is also available.
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• Ridge weather
• Stillman wing
• Sarverville remains.

Three linked novellas explore the private worlds of three men--a farmer struggling after his father's suicide, a single dad trying to control his overweight daughter, and a mentally disabled man in love with a married woman intent on using him.

Macario e Ismael se han lastimado el tobillo y yacen inmovilizados en un camino solitario, a pocos metros el uno del otro. Es de noche y ni siquiera pueden verse las caras, pero dialogan en espera de alguien que los saque del apuro. Una atmósfera minimalista lo domina todo: la luna llena, que aparece y desaparece entre la niebla, un cuervo que los protagonistas suponen enamorado y unos grillos que cantan. La luna ejerce sobre Macario un extraño influjo que le excita sexualmente y le obliga a fantasear con la idea de convertirse en hombre lobo.