Adam Bede revisits topical changes to English manliness and gentlemanliness at the turn of the nineteenth century. In her novel, written almost sixty years into the 1800s, George Eliot recognizes how new thinking about these gendered concepts changed t...
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Manliness, Gentlemanliness, and the Manhood Question in George Eliot’s Adam Bede. By Dennis Gouws
Meeting Men: Male Intimacy and College Men Centers. By Miles Groth
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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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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In the new sexism, men sense love (and life) is a battlefield
Men face their own form of discrimination, which one author has labelled the 'second sexism'. Photo: istock photos
DAVID Benatar knew what was coming. In the preface to his new book The Second Sexism, the South African professor attempted to get in fi...
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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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Report on the Conference on Curricula for New Male Studies by K.C. Glover
The University of South Australia will offer the first graduate courses and degree programs in male studies beginning in Fall 2014. The development of the curricula for these programs is described in this account of an international meeting of academic...
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Parents’ access rights after divorce enshrined in law (UK)
The right of both divorced fathers and mothers to see their children is to be enshrined in law for the first time as part of changes to family justice, despite warnings from the government's independent review and lawyers that it would "clog the court...
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Enforced conformity in class condemns boys to mediocrity (USA)
Henry V is one of Shakespeare's most appealing characters. He was rambunctious when young and courageous when older. But suppose Henry went to an American school.
By about the third week of kindergarten, Henry's teacher would be sending notes home sayi...
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Girls outperforming boys in "masculine" subjects (UK)
Girls are outperforming boys in traditionally “masculine” subjects such as engineering and construction, despite repeated attempts to close the education gender gap, it emerged today.
New figures show teenage girls are more likely to achie...
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Religious circumcisions are crimes says court (Germany)
Religious circumcisions are bodily harm and thus a crime, a German court ruled this week, in what was dubbed a precedent-setting decision.
Non-medical circumcision is a "serious and irreversible interference in the integrity of the human body,&rd...
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Fathers4Justice UK Launch Father’s Day Olympic Ad in Times Newspaper
This advertisement appeared on page 37 of the Times Newspaper. Today Fathers4Justice are holding a Father's Day Service at Trafalgar Square to protest against the secret British family courts that routinely separate children from good loving fathers.
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Men’s Network Wins Funding For Flagship Dads Project (UK)
The Men’s Network has won £40,000 of funding for its flagship dads project - Dads Connect – which aims to deliver our vision of making Brighton & Hove the worlds’ most father friendly city.
The Dads Connect project &nd...
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