The Journal of Men’s Studies

This research examines the relationship between masculinity and bystander intervention in crisis situations. Three vignettes were used in vignette-based, semi-structured interviews with 20 college men aged 18 and 19, during which they were asked questions about masculinity and the pressures they feel to appear masculine. Findings indicate these men felt they must not appear weak. This research suggests the pressure to act masculine plays a complex and important role in these young men's decisions about intervening in violent situations.

The current research project is an exploration of male interpersonal communication about sex in Puerto Rico. This study looks at how, when, and why men talk (or do not talk) about sex; particularly with their partners. Attention is given to interpersonal, communicative, and cultural aspects of sex and safe sex practices of Puerto Rican men. Seventeen heterosexual Puerto Rican men participated in this study. Overall, the ability to have meaningful communication about sex and take recommended precautions for safe sex (i.e., monogamy, discussion of previous sexual partners, and condom use) is limited, according to the participants.

The paper argues for a profeminist approach to African American male characters, suggesting that more traditional literary approaches do not offer a necessary and nuanced reading of African American male characters, where their masculinities are problematized. It operates on the assumption that African American masculinities are one of the most troubled masculinities and are therefore deserving of further scrutiny in literary texts. It argues further that the very basis for profeminist views, feminist theories, point to a necessary and elucidating way of reading texts where issues of race, gender, and the cost of one's place in a patriarchal society converge.

When we think of the Christian men's movement we tend to think of Promise Keepers, but the Christian men's movement comprises various streams following different ideologies, theologies, and denominations. In this paper, the Catholic men's movement is highlighted. In particular, the paper shows how Catholic writers have been involved in the general Christian men's movement (suggesting interaction between the different streams), how Promise Keepers provided an organizational model for the Catholic men's movement, and how Catholic masculine performances repeat and differ from those of the wider Christian men's movement.

This arts-informed narrative inquiry will delve into the experiences of male B.Ed. teacher candidates in Northern Ontario who did not complete their education degree. Their intersectional voices will, hopefully, fuel dialogue around issues of power dynamics and intersectional identity (race, class, gender, sexual orientation, geographical location, and language and culture) applicable to education, men's studies, social justice, arts-informed and arts- based educational research, and affiliated disciplines. This paper begins with a brief review of the literature on male primary teachers, then research methodology, next a look at theory, followed by a composite narrative in the voice of a former teacher candidate, and culminates in the researchers' impressions and questions.

The present study explored the role of gender role conflict and separation-in-dividuation difficulties as it relates to loneliness in college aged men. The results supported the theorized connection that difficulties associated with successful separation from parents (father and mother) would be related to loneliness. Further, men's gender role conflict scores were also related to increases of lonesomeness. Implications for future research and clinical dynamics from a psychoanalytic perspective are discussed.

This study investigated if college men's sexual aggressiveness in bar and off-campus party settings should be viewed as contextually-specific normative masculinity performances as much as sexual aggressiveness. A sample of 264 college men drawn from 22 colleges and universities completed a questionnaire assessing gender ideologies and sexual experiences. Most men self-report they engage in sexually aggressive behavior in drinking settings. Over 90% revealed they had used overt sexually aggressive tactics in the bar/party setting. A regression analysis controlling for background differences among the men found masculinity ideology predicted sexual aggressiveness. College men endorsing the toughness expectations of masculinity ideology, and who perceive themselves in terms of socially desirable qualities that emphasize assertiveness and willingness to take risks, are the men most likely to be sexually aggressive in bar settings. College men's sexual aggressiveness seems to be normative in drinking settings and evidence of men doing masculinity in a misogynic-tolerant environment.

Scholars across disciplines operationalize masculinity as a cultural construct internally complicated by its multiplex and divisive anchoring to life phases. This critical review essay examines various dimensions of this internal division by looking at sociological, political, historical as well as comparative, social, psychological, and linguistic anthropologists' theorizing of maturity and gender as interdependent cultural foci. It reviews Carthesian and intersectional models to arrive at a more thorough temporalities-minded appraisal of “genders.” Masculinity appears thoroughly structured and ordered by ideas of temporality, so that its conventional moral and analytic anchoring in “men” or “adults” can be examined as being centrist, a-historical and a-cultural.