Category Archives: Masculinity

2012 – Thank you, and Year in Review

Posted on December 31, 2012 by

2012 sure was an eventful year for my little blog! A highlight of course was being quoted in the New York Times Magazine this August (What’s So Bad about a Boy Who Wants To Wear a Dress? ). August 8, the day after that story … Continue reading →

Posted in Masculinity, Parenting, The space between, Theory, Uncategorized | 4 Comments

Aisle . . . sigh, every aisle

Posted on November 26, 2012 by

So I went to Barnes and Noble today . . .           The store was chock full of more gender-separated books like those I saw at the grocery store last week. For inquiring minds, girls search … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Femininity, Masculinity, Shopping, Stereotypes, The boy box, The girl box, The space between | Tagged , | 10 Comments

Men in skirts

New Buzzfeed article (translated from German) about a dad who wears skirts in solidarity with his five year-old son.                 My favorite line is a toss up between: “You only don’t dare to … Continue reading →

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“Marriage” sermon suggests squashing girlishness “like a cockroach”

Posted on May 2, 2012 by

Pastor Sean Harris, Berean Baptist Church, Fayetteville, NC (517 Glensford Drive  Fayetteville, NC 28314, (910) 868-5156) “Marriage Sunday” sermon – April 29, 2012 (full audio here) Can I make it any clearer? Dads, the second you see your son dropping the … Continue reading →

Posted in Clothing, Femininity, Masculinity, Musings on the News, Religion, Social construction, The boy box | Tagged , , , , | 5 Comments

Mani-pedis and Male polish

Posted on April 10, 2012 by

The saving grace of capitalism is that perceived immorality goes out the window when the potential customer demographic gets large enough. That’s how we got bilingual milk ads (featuring Salma Hayek and Sofia Vergara), and why Time Warner Cable has … Continue reading →

Posted in Clothing, Gender complexity, Masculinity, Musings on the News, pink, The boy box | Tagged , , , | 11 Comments

Manly Scrapbooking

Posted on March 29, 2012 by

Somehow the hobby of scrapbooking didn’t occur to me as a prime place to examine social constructions of masculinity. I don’t even remember how I stumbled upon this topic, but it makes sense — it’s a traditionally female-dominated practice (largely … Continue reading →

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The “boy box” and drug abuse

Posted on March 22, 2012 by

Man Love, a photo by Gerard on Flickr. Yesterday I wrote about the first of two articles from the Fall 2002 Bulletin of the Society for the Study of Men and Masculinity (Division 51 of the American Psychological Association). It … Continue reading →

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Taming the Drunken Monkey

Posted on March 21, 2012 by

Two fascinating articles in the Fall 2002 newsletter of the Society for the Study of Men and Masculinity (Division 51 of the American Psychological Association). The first, “Mindfulness as a Useful Adjunct in Therapeutic Work with Men,” by C. Peter … Continue reading →

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