Toei’s Truck Guys Series (1975–79): Masculine Identity and Fantasies of Utopia

In the context of concerns about the effects of secondhand smoke on fetal health and the health of children, North American health promotion interventions have focused on reducing tobacco consumption among women to a greater extent than men. This is problematic when the health effects of men’s secondhand smoke in family environments are considered. This article examines this gendered phenomenon in terms of a history of cigarette consumption that positions smoking as masculine. Furthermore, it demonstrates the value of addressing men’s smoking using a gendered methodology, with an emphasis on fatherhood as an expression of masculine identity. Garnering health promotion programs to promote a culture of masculinity that is less individualistic, and defined in terms of responsibility and care for others, in addition to the self, has the potential to render men’s smoking problematic and challenge the historic linkages between smoking and masculinity.

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The Effect of Child Sexual Abuse on Men

Journal of Interpersonal Violence ◽

10.1177/0886260515586362 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 32 (3) ◽

pp. 423-445 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Patrick O’Leary ◽

Scott D. Easton ◽

Nick Gould

Keyword(s):

Sexual Abuse ◽

Child Sexual Abuse ◽

Qualitative Interviews ◽

General Health Questionnaire ◽

Well Being ◽

Masculine Identity ◽

Self Blame ◽

Confirmatory Factor ◽

Male Specific ◽

Gender Specific

Child sexual abuse (CSA) is a trauma that affects males in substantial numbers, sometimes in ways that are gender-specific (e.g., compromised masculine identity, confusion regarding sexuality). Much of the identification of the male-specific outcomes has been derived from practitioner experience and small qualitative studies. The current study explores gender-specific outcomes and describes the development of a scale to measure the effects of CSA on men. First, qualitative interviews with 20 men who were sexually abused in childhood were thematically analyzed. The emergent themes of sexuality, self-concept, psychological and emotional well-being, and social functioning were used to construct a 30-item instrument which was later completed by 147 men with histories of CSA. The dimensionality of the 30 items was then assessed for suitability as scales using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). The final instrument, the Male Sexual Abuse Effects Scale (MSAES), combines three subscales: Negative Identity, Guilt and Self-Blame, and Psychological and Emotional Well-Being. Items concerning masculine identity were shown to be valid in the scale. MSAES scores were compared with the General Health Questionnaire–28 (GHQ-28) and found to be significantly correlated. GHQ-28 clinical thresholds were applied to differentiate clinical from nonclinical cases; an independent-samples t test showed that the clinical cases from the GHQ-28 had high scores on the MSAES. The new scale has the potential to help clinicians and researchers identify men who have been severely affected by CSA and who should be of clinical concern.

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Masculine Identity and Traumatic Brain Injury

The Palgrave Handbook of Male Psychology and Mental Health ◽

10.1007/978-3-030-04384-1_29 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 601-622

Author(s):

Ruth MacQueen ◽

Paul Fisher

Keyword(s):

Traumatic Brain Injury ◽

Brain Injury ◽

Masculine Identity

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Masculinity beyond repair

Anafora ◽

10.29162/anafora.v6i2.9 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 469-491

Author(s):

Stela Dujaković

Keyword(s):

Identity Construction ◽

Old Age ◽

Gender Stereotypes ◽

Hegemonic Masculinity ◽

Literary Representations ◽

Masculine Identity ◽

Theories Of Aging ◽

Aging Studies ◽

The Individual ◽

Academic Discourses

This article explores representations of male aging in Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections (2001) by looking at theories of aging, pathology, and hegemonic masculinity. While, in general, academic discourses about aging tend to link old age to pathology, the focus on gender stereotypes adds another layer to the perception of aging in Franzen’s novel. The Corrections is constructed around an aged patriarch who is not only struck by the illnesses of old age but, more importantly, he keeps clinging to an idealized masculine identity he is no longer able to maintain as an old man. Drawing on the difficulties of identity construction concerning Aging Studies and the lack of what Gabriela Spector-Mersel defines as “masculinity scripts,” my article illustrates how literary representations can construct male losses as symptoms of a silent virus that appears to break out in the aged body. The article will show that these (lived) hegemonic concepts of masculinity establish the male as a dominant collective but simultaneously constitute the inevitable failure of the individual. Hegemonic masculinities then have a disabling impact on the old man as is mirrored in Franzen’s doomed protagonist who becomes the victim of his own concepts of masculinity.

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Gender Based Violence in South Africa

Kritische Lebenskunst - psychosozial ◽

10.30820/0171-3434-2021-2-22 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 44 (4) ◽

pp. 22-29

Author(s):

Audrey Namdiero-Walsh

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Gender Roles ◽

Gender Based Violence ◽

Masculine Identity ◽

Violent Behaviour ◽

Gender Hierarchy ◽

Violent Acts ◽

The Common ◽

Gender Based ◽

And Gender

In Africa, and elsewhere, no unified masculine identity exists. However, in all societies, there are expectations about how male child and adult should act and behave. Each society determines gender roles and meanings of violent acts; and these meanings also vary depending on the context. This paper presents an overview on the common male child’s socialization practices in South Africa and how these contribute to a gender hierarchy that sees women as subordinate and even perpetuate violent behaviour against women. Using South Africa as example, where one of the world’s highest rates of violent crime and gender-based violence is recorded, this paper examines the association between apartheid’s racist and violent policies and existing masculine identities.

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Speaking to the ‘Hard Men’: Masculinities, Violence and Youth Gangs in Glasgow, c. 1965–75

Nine Centuries of Man ◽

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474403894.003.0014 ◽

2017 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Angela Bartie ◽

Alistair Fraser

Keyword(s):

Working Class ◽

Identity Formation ◽

Oral History ◽

Lived Experiences ◽

Historical Context ◽

Youth Gangs ◽

Masculine Identity ◽

Popular Representations ◽

Oral History Interviews ◽

The City

This chapter unites perspectives from history and sociology in excavating the lived experiences of everyday masculinities and violence that lie behind the persistent image of the Glasgow ‘hard man’, while also interrogating popular representations of the ‘hard city’. Drawing on oral history interviews with individuals involved in violent territorialism – specifically through street-based ‘gangs’ of young men – c. 1965-1975, it contrasts popular representations of the Glasgow ‘hard man’ with the lived experiences of those living and working in the city at that time. Focusing specifically on Easterhouse, it highlights the prominence of ‘the street’ in narrative accounts of masculine identity formation for young working-class men and links this to the specific social, cultural and economic composition of the locale. Overall, it argues that such ‘street’ masculinities should be understood in historical context, recognising the influence of local cultures of machismo on the persistence of forms of masculine identity.

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