This thesis examines the paradigms of masculinities during and after Northern Ireland’s conflict to understand how societal transition from intrastate conflict impacts males’ identities and mental health. Focusing on ...
I interviewed 60 rural, white, straight-identified men who have sex with men (MSM). I did so to answer three main research questions: How do rural, white, straight MSM understand their gender and sexual identity? How do ...
Morgen, Sandra; Sutton, Barbara; Novkov, Julie, 1966-; Mann, Bonnie; Houppert, Karen; University of Oregon. Center for the Study of Women in Society(Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, 2005)
McMullen, Bradford(University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)
This thesis examines the ways in which masculinity is constructed and performed by commercial fisherman poets. Focusing on the writings of cisgender male poets, this thesis examines the ways in which competence and credibility ...
This dissertation applies the concept of hegemonic masculinity. as first proposed by R.W Connell in her book Masculinities, to three works of medieval chivalric conduct literature. This dissertation asserts that the authors ...
Larissa Ennis
Doctor of Philosophy
Department of English
March 2012
Title: Melodramas of Ethnicity and Masculinity: Generic Transformations of Late Twentieth Century American Film Gangsters
The gangster film ...
Middlebrook, Leah(Center for Renaissance and Reformation Studies U Toronto, 2010)
For many writers, politicians and courtiers in early modern Spain, to raise the topic of poetry was to raise the topic of masculinity. In Spain, the sixteenth century marks a particular threshold – we might consider it the ...
How do sex practices get constructed as normal? This research evaluates discussions of pegging, a gender non-conforming sex practice within heterosexual sex whereby women anally penetrate men. Data were collected from the ...
This dissertation is a postcolonial analysis of four films: The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980), Dances with Wolves (1990), The Last Samurai (2003), and Avatar (2009). While previous scholarship has identified the Eurocentric ...
Wardell, Kathryn Brenna(University of Oregon, 2010-06)
My dissertation analyzes the rake, the libertine male, a figure whose liminal masculinity and transgressive appetites work both to stabilize and unsettle hegemony in the texts in which he appears. The rake may seem no more ...
Feminist scholarship concerning fairy tales is too limited. While relationships between male and female characters have been explored extensively, this thesis focuses on masculinity as it is performed in interactions between ...
Zaninovich, Molly Kathleen(University of Oregon, 2018-06)
This study evaluated the effectiveness of a sexual violence prevention workshop presented to three University of Oregon fraternities. In this study a total of 39 fraternity men completed the Updated Illinois Rape Myth ...