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- Title
- Gorgeous Gold Peacocks: Exploring Masculinity in Professional Wrestling.
- Creator
- Karasick, Scott Philip, Harvey, Mark, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Sociology
- Abstract/Description
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This thesis is a historical comprehensive case study on masculinity that explores stereotypes of masculinity in professional wrestling. Working from theories about gender roles, hegemonic masculinity, misogyny (with its disdain for femininity) and heteronormativity, this study utilizes a content analysis of American professional wrestling to look at the gendered basis of how and why wrestling characters are created and how they are successful. Professional wrestlers historically have created...
Show moreThis thesis is a historical comprehensive case study on masculinity that explores stereotypes of masculinity in professional wrestling. Working from theories about gender roles, hegemonic masculinity, misogyny (with its disdain for femininity) and heteronormativity, this study utilizes a content analysis of American professional wrestling to look at the gendered basis of how and why wrestling characters are created and how they are successful. Professional wrestlers historically have created characters based in American popular cultures and specifically American gender ideologies of masculinity that are based in hetero-patriarchal cultural ideals. By looking through the history of masculinity and gender stereotypes in professional wrestling, I uncover how contemporary wrestlers are reworking these stereotypes to create new characters with changing gender inflections based on global cultural ideals, rather than American culture, demonstrating the influence global culture and the globalized wrestling community has on contemporary American wrestling.
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- 2019
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013223
- Subject Headings
- Wrestling, Masculinity, Sex role, Stereotypes (Social psychology)
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- “WE NEED TO HAVE MORE CONVERSATIONS ABOUT MASCULINITY”: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL EXPLORATION OF MASCULINITY AND THE UNDERGRADUATE EXPERIENCES OF LATINO MEN.
- Creator
- Camacho Jr., Lazaro, Cristóbal Salinas Jr., Bloom, Jennifer, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Educational Leadership and Research Methodology, College of Education
- Abstract/Description
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This study addresses existing gaps in the literature concerning the undergraduate experiences of Latino men students as examined through an intersectional and masculinities-based lens. Due to a dearth in literature centering the exclusive study of Latino men in higher education, researchers are challenged to offer a comprehensive understanding of their postsecondary experiences and outcomes. Therefore, the purpose of this phenomenological study was to understand how currently enrolled Latino...
Show moreThis study addresses existing gaps in the literature concerning the undergraduate experiences of Latino men students as examined through an intersectional and masculinities-based lens. Due to a dearth in literature centering the exclusive study of Latino men in higher education, researchers are challenged to offer a comprehensive understanding of their postsecondary experiences and outcomes. Therefore, the purpose of this phenomenological study was to understand how currently enrolled Latino men undergraduate students make meaning of their undergraduate experiences. Relying on the lived experiences of Latino undergraduate men, this study collected data through three sets of interviews (Seidman, 2013). The examination of data was considered through the Multilevel Model of Intersectionality (Núñez, 2014a), which allowed for the participants’ lived experiences to be examined at multiple levels of intersectionality and centered in social oppression and privilege. The findings center the role of the Latino family, navigating and overcoming pan-ethnic discrimination, and evolved understandings of masculinity. Recommendations include the incorporation of the Latino family into the postsecondary experiences of Latino men, discontinuing the study of Latino masculinities as a homogenous concept, and equity based institutional policies that center the intersectional needs of Latino men undergraduate students related to academic and personal success.
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- 2021
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013694
- Subject Headings
- Latino Man, Masculinity, Male college students, Intersectionality (Sociology)
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Dancing beneath the surface: Men, masculinity and expressions of the feminine.
- Creator
- Hodapp, Christa M., Florida Atlantic University, Caputi, Jane
- Abstract/Description
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The masculine gender identity in western United States culture is constructed in opposition to femininity, and is maintained through the culture modes of discipline and surveillance. However, instances of male femininity challenge these rigid constructs of gender, and suggest that gender is in fact a performance reflecting cultural norms as opposed to an internal core of identity. Instances of male femininity can be located in heterosexual male cross-dressing activities, ranging from the...
Show moreThe masculine gender identity in western United States culture is constructed in opposition to femininity, and is maintained through the culture modes of discipline and surveillance. However, instances of male femininity challenge these rigid constructs of gender, and suggest that gender is in fact a performance reflecting cultural norms as opposed to an internal core of identity. Instances of male femininity can be located in heterosexual male cross-dressing activities, ranging from the recent phenomena of "metrosexuality" to heterosexual men completely dressing as women. While frequently presenting some problematic conceptions of gender, these behaviors also provide instances of subversive breaks in gendered performance, and illustrate the possibility for a non-oppositional heterosexuality. Additionally, the films Billy Elliot and Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake provide popular culture examples illustrating the ways in which men struggle with masculinity, and the complexities of addressing moments of femininity in individual male subjectivity and identity.
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- 2004
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13126
- Subject Headings
- Gender identity in motion pictures, Masculinity, Cross-dressing, Men--Identity
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Y tu hijo tambien: La representacion de la masculinidad en la literature y el cine mexicanos (1915--2001).
- Creator
- Colhouer, John P., Florida Atlantic University, Erro-Peralta, Nora
- Abstract/Description
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In Mexico, fragmentation is an integral element in social, political, and literary realities expressing an inequality among its citizens. This disparity is reflected in literary and cinematic representations. The Mexican male is the agent that perpetuates the fractured society, and his representation in the arts reflects the impediments to social progress in both the heterosexual and homosexual communities. The novels Los de abajo, Pedro Paramo , and La muerte de Artemio Cruz, present the...
Show moreIn Mexico, fragmentation is an integral element in social, political, and literary realities expressing an inequality among its citizens. This disparity is reflected in literary and cinematic representations. The Mexican male is the agent that perpetuates the fractured society, and his representation in the arts reflects the impediments to social progress in both the heterosexual and homosexual communities. The novels Los de abajo, Pedro Paramo , and La muerte de Artemio Cruz, present the traditional Mexican male and images of masculinity in the heterosexual community. El vampiro de la Colonia Roma by Luis Zapata introduces the male homosexual character into Mexican discourse and implies how he is affected by fragmentation. The film Y tu mama tambien (2001) by Alfonso Cuaron proposes that inequality will be perpetuated if Mexican society does not change its views of what is to be considered "masculine."
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- 2005
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13229
- Subject Headings
- Masculinity--Mexico, Machismo--Mexico, Motion picture industry--Mexico, Motion pictures--Political aspects--Mexico
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- The Rastafari presence in Toni Morrison's Tar Baby, Beloved, and Song of Solomon.
- Creator
- Carr, Nicole Racquel., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
- Abstract/Description
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Literary scholars frequently analyze the allusions to Western Christianity apparent in Toni Morrison's novels, but these studies overlook the ways in which some of her novels are informed by a Caribbean presence. This study argues that Rastafari themes, symbols, and ideologies are recurrent in Toni Morrison's Tar Baby, Beloved, and Song of Solomon. Rastafari is a social movement primarily concerned with restoring the image of Africa to a holy place. A Rastafari analysis of these texts...
Show moreLiterary scholars frequently analyze the allusions to Western Christianity apparent in Toni Morrison's novels, but these studies overlook the ways in which some of her novels are informed by a Caribbean presence. This study argues that Rastafari themes, symbols, and ideologies are recurrent in Toni Morrison's Tar Baby, Beloved, and Song of Solomon. Rastafari is a social movement primarily concerned with restoring the image of Africa to a holy place. A Rastafari analysis of these texts broadens the literary spectrum to suggest that these novels highlight Morrison's attempt to write about the multifaceted element of the black community, which remains deeply connected to its American, African, and Caribbean roots.
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- 2010
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/2683134
- Subject Headings
- Criticism and interpretation, Criticism and interpretation, Criticism and interpretation, Rastafari movement, Masculinity in literature, Afro-Caribbean cults
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Liberating machismo: deconstructing the stereotypes of Latinidad in Alberto Korda's Guerrillero Heroico.
- Creator
- Ayala-Walsh, Johanna., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
- Abstract/Description
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This thesis examines the Alberto Korda Guerrillero Heroico image within the realm of U.S. Latino/a fiction. Drawing from several trends that constitute Latino/a identity as either resistant to white mainstream hegemonies, or as a performative construct, I argue that a collective Hispanic identity is found somewhere between these two extremes. Corporate discourses have perpetuated stereotypes of Latino masculinity to limit any alternate and nuanced portrayal of Latinidad. Specifically, I posit...
Show moreThis thesis examines the Alberto Korda Guerrillero Heroico image within the realm of U.S. Latino/a fiction. Drawing from several trends that constitute Latino/a identity as either resistant to white mainstream hegemonies, or as a performative construct, I argue that a collective Hispanic identity is found somewhere between these two extremes. Corporate discourses have perpetuated stereotypes of Latino masculinity to limit any alternate and nuanced portrayal of Latinidad. Specifically, I posit that the corporate use of the Che photograph illustrates Latin men as hypermasculine, limiting Latin-ness to a performance of its mainstream depiction. To combat the commercialization of the print, the novel Loving Che imagines new possibilities for the Hispanic community and its relationship to the U.S. market, challenging the idea of a pan-Latino/a identity with archival photographis of the comandante. Together, both texts bridge performative and resistant trends, providing a potential Latinidad that resists and eludes corporate hegemonies.
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- 2012
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3358279
- Subject Headings
- Criticism and interpretation, Criticism and interpretation, Masculinity in popular culture, Machismo, ?
- Format
- Document (PDF)
