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| Author | : Stanley Brandes |
| Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Total Pages | : 247 |
| Release | : 2015-04-17 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0812292502 |
In the Andalusian communities throughout the olive-growing region of southeastern Spain men show themselves to be primarily concerned with two problems of identity: their place in the social hierarchy, and the maintenance of their masculinity in the context of their culture. In this study of projective behavior as found in the folklore of an Andalusian town, Stanley Brandes is careful to support psychological interpretations with ethnographic evidence. His emphasis on male folklore provides a timely complement to current research on women.
| Author | : Matthew Fox |
| Publisher | : New World Library |
| Total Pages | : 372 |
| Release | : 2010-09-24 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1577317920 |
It is no secret that men are in trouble today. From war to ecological collapse, most of the world’s critical problems stem from a distorted masculinity out of control. Yet our culture rewards the very dysfunctions responsible for those problems. To Matthew Fox, our crucial task is to open our minds to a deeper understanding of the healthy masculine than we receive from our media, culture, and religions. Popular religion forces the punitive imagery of fundamentalism on us, pushing most men away from their natural yearning for spirituality and toward intolerance and domination. Meanwhile, many men, particularly young men, are looking for images of healthy masculinity to emulate and finding nothing. To awaken what Fox calls “the sacred masculine,” he unearths ten metaphors, or archetypes, ranging from the Green Man, an ancient pagan symbol of our fundamental relationship with nature, to the Grandfatherly Heart to the Spiritual Warrior. He explores archetypes of sacred marriage, showing how partnership becomes the ultimate expression of healthy masculinity. By stirring our natural yearning for healthy spirituality, Fox argues, these timeless archetypes can inspire men to pursue their higher calling to reinvent the world.
| Author | : Helen Weinreich-Haste |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| Genre | : Culture |
| ISBN | : |
Argues that polarity is a major metaphor of western thought, so that as long as masculinity is defined by one pole, femininity is defined by its negation. To challenge traditional conceptions of gender is to challenge the deeply-rooted metaphors and models of control that underlie western culture.
| Author | : Susan E. Haddox |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Peter F. Murphy |
| Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
| Total Pages | : 190 |
| Release | : 2001-02-12 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780299171308 |
Peter F. Murphy's purpose in this book is not to shock but rather to educate, provoke discussion, and engender change. Looking at the sexual metaphors that are so pervasive in American culture—jock, tool, shooting blanks, gang bang, and others even more explicit—he argues that men are trapped and damaged by language that constantly intertwines sexuality and friendship with images of war, machinery, sports, and work. These metaphors men live by, Murphy contends, reinforce the view that relationships are tactical encounters that must be won, because the alternative is the loss of manhood. The macho language with which men cover their fear of weakness is a way of bonding with other men. The implicit or explicit attacks on women and gay men that underlie this language translate, in their most extreme forms, into actual violence. Murphy also believes, however, that awareness of these metaphorical power plays is the basis for behavioral change: "How we talk about ourselves as men can alter the way we live as men."
| Author | : Susan E. Haddox |
| Publisher | : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Bible |
| ISBN | : 9781433113567 |
The metaphors in Hosea are rich and varied, comprising both gendered and non-gendered image fields. This book examines the use of metaphor in Hosea through the lens of masculinity studies, which provides a means to elucidate connections between the images and to analyze their cumulative rhetorical effect. The rhetoric of both the gendered and non-gendered imagery is analyzed using a model from cognitive anthropology, which divides social space along three axes: activity, potency, and goodness. People use metaphors to position and to move one another within this space. These axes reveal how the metaphors in Hosea rhetorically relate the audience, represented by Ephraim/Israel, and YHWH to a particular construction of masculinity. Hosea uses the imagery of Assyrian treaty curses to reinforce YHWH's masculinity and dominance, while undermining the masculinity of the audience. The rhetoric of the text attempts to bring the audience into an appropriately subordinate position with respect to YHWH and to shape its members' actions and attitudes accordingly.
| Author | : Harry Brod |
| Publisher | : SAGE Publications |
| Total Pages | : 315 |
| Release | : 1994-06-13 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1506319645 |
A new field of inquiry and growing interdisciplinary area, men′s studies, is just now beginning to develop its own distinctive methodologies and perspectives as demonstrated in the pages of Theorizing Masculinities. This first major compilation of new theoretical work on men begins by presenting ideas borrowed from the disciplines that have fostered the study of masculinities: sociology, psychoanalysis, ethnography, and inequality. The following chapters explore many issues central to the study of men such as power, ethnicity, feminism, and homophobia. The contributors also provide theoretical explanations of some of the institutions most closely identified with men, such as the military, sports, and the men′s movement. The contributors to this volume come from disciplines as diverse as sociology, political science, industrial relations, philosophy, education, anthropology, gender studies, and literature. Together, they make this benchmark volume the guiding set of theories on masculinities. Theorizing Masculinities is a comprehensive volume that will appeal to a wide range of students and scholars, especially those interested in gender, sociology, social theory, family studies, counseling, and psychology.
| Author | : Sharon Joy Ng |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 159 |
| Release | : 2013-01-01 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780978688424 |
Our sense of femininity and masculinity are shaped by both internal and external forces. Families, cultures and society have served to mold our personalities and perceptions. How well we relate to the characteristics assigned to our gender presents us with choices--do we conform and therefore fit into our group or do we choose the route of individuality and risk alienation? As we embark upon our journey, we will discover the internal forces that shape the myths that we live by--our Personal Mythology, which is comprised of the various belief systems that guide our behaviors and impact our perceptual reality. Your journey will be guided by the psychological theories of Carl Jung, Abraham Maslow, Carl Roger, Alfred Adler and Otto Rank. By exploring personality development from Jung's theory you will be prepared to explore the Greek goddesses and gods that can help us better understand the archetypal influences to our behaviors, helping us to be conscious when the patterns arise. This gives us the opportunity to stop the reactionary patterns and develop unique and individual responses that reflect the person that we are at the core. Feminine and masculine behaviors are defined by society and do not necessarily reflect our individuality. By discovering your personal mythology, you are empowered to update your worn out "roadmap," which will lead to greater happiness and well-being.
| Author | : Thomas K. Fitzgerald |
| Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
| Total Pages | : 280 |
| Release | : 1993-09-06 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1438402945 |
Placing identity within its cultural context, Fitzgerald offers ethnographic case material to examine the meaning and changing metaphors of ethnicity, male and female identity, and aging and identity. He opens up an exciting multidisciplinary dialogue for improving interpersonal and cross-cultural communication. The book provides a clear synthesis of the interrelated meanings of culture, identity, and communication, examining self-concept and its role in the communication process, and exploring cultural and biological research on self, individuality, personality, and mind-body questions.
| Author | : David D. Leitao |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 321 |
| Release | : 2012-04-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1107017289 |
This book traces the image of the pregnant male as it evolves in classical Greek literature. Originating as a representation of paternity and, by extension, "authorship" of creative works, the image later comes to function also as a means to explore the boundary between the sexes.
