A new issue of Masculinities Journal is out. Kristi Allain (St. Thomas): “Real Fast and Tough”: The Construction of Canadian Hockey Masculinity. Michiel Baas (NUS): The New Indian Male: Muscles, Masculinity and Middle Classness. Nora Goerne (Lisbon): “Picture an Arab Man” and “Mectoub”: New Western Representations of Arab Masculinities. Anna Cooper (UC-Santa Cruz): Representative Men: Moral Perfectionism, Masculinity and Psychoanalysis in Good Will Hunting. Why is the Marvel universe — and the geeks who love it — still obsessed with aggressive hypermasculinity? Semih Sapmaz reviews The Other Guy: Media Masculinity Within the Margins by Derek A. Burrill. Meredith Talusan on Eddie Redmayne’s complicated masculinity. Michelle Walks (UBC): Masculine Pregnancy: Butch Lesbians’, Trans Men’s and Genderqueer Individuals’ Experiences.
Steffen Keck (Vienna) and Wenjie Tang (IE): Gender Composition and Group Confidence: The Perils of All-Male Groups. The meme-ification of misandry: Charlotte Shane on why ironic hatred of men isn’t enough. Kate Manne (Cornell): What is Misogyny? A Feminist Analysis. Masculinity is an anxiety disorder: David J. Schwartz on breaking down the Nerd Box. Is this crazy anti-feminist rumor the Platonic ideal of the Men’s-Rights Internet? At the vanguard of the “men’s movement”: Elizabeth Winkler interviews Anne-Marie Slaughter. From Deadspin, a series on the 1987 book The Modern Man’s Guide to Life.
