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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Gender & Masculinities
But Are the Kids Really All Right? Egalitarian Rhetoric, Legal Theory and Fathers. By Katherine Young and Paul Nathanson
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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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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Men are crying out for equality too, especially in parenting
We were on the tram, me and two little boys. It was a Saturday evening in June and the three of us were returning from a football match.
One child was my son, now seven years old, the other his schoolfriend.
Two matronly women noticed the three of us ...
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Father knows best as single dads tackle the other glass ceiling
Dads' group members Don Crinson (left) with son Merlin and James Vincent with daughter Ashley. Photo: James Boddington
Charles Areni was shopping alone in a city department store between Monday meetings when he realised he was being watched.
His three...
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13 Reasons it is Unlucky to be Male
An abridged version of this article appeared as an op-ed in the Newcastle Herald on November 17, 2012, and on the Online Opinion website on November 23, 2012.
November 19 is International Men’s Day: a time to promote male role models; to celebra...
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Men in search of their spirit
Written by Chiara Muzzin
Bhutan is known in some circles to be a place of happiness and mystery. To others, Bhutan is unknown. Located between Tibet and India, the country thrives with culture and awe-inspiring scenery. The people’s authentic sm...
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The myth of the tyrannical dad (BBC News, UK)
Lily Barron (nee Jones), left, and family when her father was home on leave
Fathers of yesteryear tend to be portrayed as cold, detached, even callous creatures. But, says Steve Humphries, the cuddly, hands-on, sentimental dads we know today are by n...
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Male, presumed dangerous
Battling stereotypes … preschool worker Craig d'Arcy has set up the Males in Early Childhood Network Group. Photo: Greg Mace
As a young man eager to get into a boom industry with a robust future, Craig d'Arcy spent several years as the only male stu...
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Book review of Nigel Saul’s Chivalry in Medieval England by Dennis Gouws
Chivalry has declined since it first dignified medieval men’s pursuit of excellence. On its inception in twelfth-century Europe, chivalry offered knights new opportunities for camaraderie, heroism, and comity in battle; moreover, it both occasion...
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Three book reviews of David Benatar’s The Second Sexism: Discrimination Against Men and Boys
Miles Groth, J.P. Messina and Jonathan Badiali provide reviews of David Benatar's The Second Sexism: Discrimination Against Men and Boys in the 3rd edition of the New Male Studies journal.
From New Male Studies: An International Journal - Vol. 1, Issue...
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The Lace Curtain is alive and well at the SMH
As predicted, despite yesterday's media release from the Australian Bureau of Statistics showing that men fare worse than women in education, health and crime, the Sydney Morning Herald has somehow twisted the data around to claim that "Statistics conf...
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Men fare worse than women in education, health and crime (ABS)
In February 2012 the ABS released its Gender Indicators Report accompanied by a media release titled Busy mums want more paid work that completely ignored male disadvantage (see Men's Health Australia report here).
Today they have redressed this i...
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