The Changing Definition of Masculinity

The Changing Definition of Masculinity is an outgrowth of four years of developing and teaching the course "Social Factors in Male Personality" at Ohio State University, Columbus. This volume reflects, in addition to my thoughts and feelings about what should be discussed in a sex-roles co...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Franklin II, Clyde W.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 1984, 1984
Edition:1st ed. 1984
Series:Perspectives in Sexuality
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Males and Nonverbal Sensitivity
  • Consequences of Male Perception
  • The Implication of Male Perception for Ongoing Social Interaction
  • 5. Male Social Roles
  • Men in Marriage
  • Males As Parents
  • Men’s Friends
  • Men At Work
  • A Modified Definition of the Male Role: Beyond Androgyny
  • Determining Male Gender
  • 6. Male Interpersonal Attraction
  • Varieties of Male Interpersonal Attraction
  • Why Men Are Attracted to Others: What Men Want
  • Characteristics in Men that Attract Others: What Women Like Men
  • 7. Themes in Male Sexuality
  • Men and Sex
  • Patterns of Men’s Heterosexual Involvement
  • Men and Homosexuality
  • Ambisexual Men
  • Asexual Men
  • Males, Sex, and Violence
  • 8. The Male Sex-Role in the Future: Will Prince Charming Survive?
  • An Excursion into Fairyland
  • The Implications of Male—Female Interaction for Changes inthe Male Sex Role
  • The Implications of Men’s Interaction With Men for Changes the Male Sex-Role
  • Men’s Responses to Sex-Role Changes
  • The Classical Man
  • Career Paths Men Take Toward Sex-Role Equality
  • Prince Charming’s Emerging Form
  • References
  • 1. Meanings of Masculinity in the United States
  • Three Basic Sex-Role Concepts
  • Traditional Meanings of Masculinity
  • The Women’s Movement
  • The Gay Liberation Movement
  • The Men’s Movement
  • The “Moral Majority”
  • Emerging Meanings of Masculinity
  • Women and Masculinity
  • Men and New Definitions of Masculinity
  • 2. Socialization and the Male Role
  • Biology and Male Socialization
  • Environment and Male Socialization
  • Agents of Male Socialization
  • Males and the Assumption of Masculine Roles
  • The White Masculine Role and Males
  • Comments about the White Masculine Role
  • The Black Masculine Role and Males
  • Black Males, Work, and Violence
  • Comments about the Black Masculine Role
  • Male Socialization in Retrospect
  • 3. The Male Self
  • Explanations of the Male Self
  • The Male Self as a Dynamic Process: A Perspective and Consequences
  • Males Against Themselves
  • 4. Male Social Perception
  • >Male Perceptual Organization of Social Worlds