Given the ongoing trend of declining enrollments of males in college (currently at 40%), it is essential for educators and parents to understand its causes. As the issue becomes better understood, in the meantime the important part played by men's grou...
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Author Archive
Meeting Men: Male Intimacy and College Men Centers. By Miles Groth
But Are the Kids Really All Right? Egalitarian Rhetoric, Legal Theory and Fathers. By Katherine Young and Paul Nathanson
The underlying but disguised premise of a widely acclaimed recent movie, The Kids Are All Right, is that children do not need fathers. Because fatherhood is the only remaining source of masculine identity, however, this premise damages not only childre...
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Moral Panic: Male Studies and the Spectre of Denial. By Robert Kenedy
The absence of male studies programs in Canada is both a result of and clear evidence that political correctness along with moral panic and gender feminism or third wave feminism have a grip on academe, creating an adversarial schism. Over the last thr...
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The Bold, Independent Woman Of Today and the “Good” Men and Boys in Her Life: A Sampling of Mainstream Media Representations. By Peter Allemano
For decades, there has been an abundance of negative portrayals of men and boys in mainstream media, but here and there, especially in recent years, ostensibly “positive” portrayals have also been presented of exemplary men and good little ...
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Towards an Integrated Perspective on Gender, Masculinity and Manhood by John Ashfield
For decades our understanding of gender, masculinity, and manhood has arguably been bedevilled by uninformative pseudo-academic gender ideology. Detached from biological reality, and crediting culture with almost autonomous causation, this ideology of ...
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Research backs up ‘man flu’ sufferers
Man flu ... no longer a myth.
It has been scorned by women as a sign of male weakness for generations - but ''man flu'' might not be a myth after all as men and women have different brains, new research has claimed.
Neuroscientist Amanda Ellison, of B...
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2013 Tasmanian Men’s Gathering
It’s on again, the Tasmanian Men’s Gathering over the March long weekend
TMG 2013
Fri-Mon 8-11th March
Waddamana, Tasmania
Explore and express your real feelings, fears and hopes for yourself and your loved ones. Tell your story, or not, as...
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2013 Tasmanian Men’s Gathering
It’s on again, the Tasmanian Men’s Gathering over the March long weekend
TMG 2013
Fri-Mon 8-11th March
Waddamana, Tasmania
Explore and express your real feelings, fears and hopes for yourself and your loved ones. Tell your story, or not, as...
Read more »
Engaging Men: men’s health, wellbeing & relationships training seminar, March 14 & 15 2013, Newcastle
ONLY 7 DAYS LEFT FOR EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT
A Final Early Bird Discount offer of a full two day registration for only $360 is available now.
You must register by January 31 to receive this discount.
The Men’s Health Forum NSW Inc. want you to be a ...
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Essentially Men 2013 Calendar of Workshops and Events (NZ)
Get more out of life Whether your life is working well or you have some things to sort out, you will find that attending an Essentially Men workshop will provide you with powerful resources for your journey of personal discovery and growth.
Renewal, ch...
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Groupwork Solutions National Training Calendar 2013
Groupwork Solutions is a small training company that specialises in dynamic learning, mastery of practice skills, resource development, working with men, using strengths based approaches and creative group work. For more information and resources visit...
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Workplace gender equality: call for public comments
The Acting Minister for the Status of Women, Jenny Macklin, today called for public comment to help develop the next stage of the Australian Government’s landmark workplace gender equality reforms.
The introduction of the Workplace Gender Equalit...
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The Omega Male – A Powerful Success Program for Men from Adam Blanch
What is an Omega Male?
Ω (Omega) is the last letter of the Greek alphabet (α = Alpha being the first), which is commonly used to represent the outer or ultimate edge of something. I have used...
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SLIMS and the decline of partnering in Australia
This is an edited version of a research paper by Prof. Bob Birrell, Virgonia Rapson, and Clare Hourigan, of the Monash University Centre for Population and Urban Research for the Australian Family Association written in March 2004. Their insights are still very current today.
Economic changes over the past 20 years have conspired to create...
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The Workplace Gender Equality Agency once again ‘finds’ wage discrimination without evidence
The Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) has once again appeared to 'find' wage discrimination without supporting evidence. We have covered this issue previously here.
Thankfully this time around Graduate Careers Australia, the research body that ea...
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EMALE Issue 118 (January 2013)
In this month's issue:
is being a bit overweight all that bad for you?
keeping your mind young and alert
engaging men national training seminar
SLIMS and the decline of partnering in Australia
The Real Reason Men Die Sooner and Live Sicker
news briefs
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