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Background: Social norms around gender have been rapidly changing around the world. As a psychological variable, “masculinity” may be at a “critical juncture” in Australia where old definitions are now open to challenge and where new and more useful definitions may be necessary. Methods: The present exploratory study investigated the meaning(s) of masculinity in a contemporary setting with data derived from semi-structured interviews with 39 adult Australian citizens or permanent residents for whom issues of masculinity likely resonated. The present study employed a qualitative methodology with thematic analysis used to examine contemporary accounts of masculinity among 39 participants (18 males, 15 females and 6 non-binary) aged between 21 and 74 years (Mean Age = 36.1 years, Standard Deviation = 17.18) and recruited from a large capital city of Melbourne and a regional city of Geelong. Results: Thematic analysis identified three broad themes, namely (1) “Physical and Performative”, whereby physicality was important in contemporary versions of what is masculine, with masculinity also typically deemed a performance or persona; (2) “Prosocial Masculinity”, in that it now incorporates mostly positive attributes; and (3) Is “Evolving” from old stereotypes usually seen as dysfunctional to attributes now viewed as essentially human qualities. Conclusions: The present findings suggest there exists a “myriad of masculinities” that are largely performative with characteristics once labelled as “masculine” no longer viewed as gendered phenomena. For some interviewees, the label of masculinity is outdated, playing little to no role in their lives. The concept of masculinity in Australia, or at least in this sample, appears in transition, with the present findings suggesting that it is indeed at a “critical juncture” with new meanings emerging and where new and more useful concepts may need to be considered.

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The article, based on the material of world religions and new religious movements, examines the forms of representation of male and female corporeality. Gender, in turn, fixes the body and sex in a social framework and determines the initial parity of male and female, the hierarchical position of which is established not by the body itself in which a person was born, but by the actions of this body, or rather its owner. From the illustration of the Fall of Adam and Eve, which predetermined corporeality by reducing the body to desiring/sinful flesh, we observe a strict normalization of bodily practices in religious contexts. However, contemporarily offers us various cases that seem to violate established norms. In the article we turn to cases of the Hare Krishnas and Raelites, who in the realities of the 21st century practice parity of bodily principles. The masculine and feminine of given roles and statuses turn into one of many factors that can fix the Self. Or, conversely, they still remain a predetermined role in some contexts.

This paper tacitly captures the plight and social recompense of a Tsonga woman within the sociocultural legalities as unveiled through an analysis of Tsonga proverbs. Is a revelation of masculine hegemony through the instrument of Xitsonga proverbs. It expresses the 'foul-tasting' gender-interactive ambiance that characterise the dilemma confronted by Xitsonga Women midst their male counterparts. It manifests the gender based mistreatment, harassment and imposed psychological, social and gender-sexual malaise that attend women within the sociocultural framework of the said ethnicity through the use of proverbs. Their association with and to men is that of a Master-servant to Horserider relationship. The paper is meant to unveil the fact that proverbs are/were instrumental in use by men to manipulate and silence women, at times yielding to unpleasant results. With this ideological mindset, the paper epitomises the feminist approach and ideologies in interrogating and attempting at arresting the indestructible male-manufactured and perpetuated advances that favour their sex at the dire expense of women as a whole. data has been collected during the years 2011 through interviews and documentary analysis. Some of the findings of the study include males' axiomatic understanding that females are some form of their chattels and that their power over females allows them to do whatever they want with them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author investigates the symbolism of feminine and masculine energies in leadership through an exploration of the Arthurian legend of Parzival and the Holy Grail and Temple's functional fluency model. Drawing on her experience as an educator, she reflects on a program she delivered for an all-male group in which she became curious about the impact of her presence as a female on their work together. She describes how exploring the "being in charge" role in the functional fluency model gave her a language with which to understand not only her impact on the participants but also their impact on her as they challenged each other's frames of reference about leadership. She also reflects on how an understanding of feminine and masculine energies enables leaders to draw more fully on both and so experience more wholeness and a greater sense of authenticity in their roles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The goal of this squib is to discuss innovative nominal forms like feministo and presidento, which, at a first glance, seem to phonologically realize the masculine gender suffix -o. This phenomenon seems to raise issues for the analysis on the gender marking system in Brazilian Portuguese put forth by Schwindt (2011) and based on constraint-based approaches, such as Harmonic Serialism (McCarthy, 2000) and Optimal Interleaving Theory (Wolf, 2008). The author proposes that the masculine gender suffix would not be phonologically realized due to enforcement of hierarchically organized morphophonological restrictions -- which favors the non realization of the masculine gender suffix over the presence of hiatus between the aforementioned suffix and the nominal thematic vowels -e, -o and -a. In this work, we suggest two proposals for the analysis of these innovative forms, namely: (1) the existence of competing grammars (following Kroch, 1994) that generate nominal forms with and without a phonologically realized gender suffix, and (2) the possibility of the suffix -o actually being of derivational nature, bearing the pejorative meaning of certain names. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Jing Huang,1 Hongxia Sun,2 Bei Tian2 1Department of Nursing, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, 201203, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Nursing, Shanghai Pudong New Area Zhoupu Hospital (Shanghai Health Medical College Affiliated Zhoupu Hospital), Shanghai, 201318, People’s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence: Bei Tian, Department of Nursing, Shanghai Pudong New Area Zhoupu Hospital (Shanghai Health Medical College Affiliated Zhoupu Hospital), No. 1500 Zhou yuan Road, Pudong New District, Shanghai, 201318, People’s Republic of China, Tel +86-18121216302, Email 18121216302@163.comIntroduction: This study aims to explore the thought, feelings and perceptions of male nursing students and male nursing professionals in the nursing profession.Methods: This present study used a qualitative research design to explore the feelings, thoughts, and opinions of male nursing students (first to fourth years) and male nursing professionals about their perception of the nursing profession. The study recruited 11 male nursing students and 11 male nursing professionals using a purposive sampling method. Data were collected via semi-structured individual interviews using qualitative open-ended inquiries consisting of seven questions. The data were analysed using thematic perspectives.Results: The analysis revealed three themes: (a) perceiving gender varieties, (b) taking apparent advantage of masculine characteristics, and (c) taking an equal perspective. Male students’ replies to their professional gender attitudes were that there was no distinct line among the gender-related advantages and disadvantages according to whether they were first to fourth-year students.Conclusion: Male nursing students and professionals believe that nursing is equally appropriate for both men and women, and they could employ masculine characteristics to thrive in their professional development.Keywords: male nurses, professional development, interventional nursing, semi-structured, masculine

This study deals with the experience of men coping with violence toward them in heterosexual relationships. The research was conducted using a qualitative paradigm. It was based on 12 in-depth, semi-structured interviews with Israeli men. The analysis focused on the participants' self-perception in the context of domestic violence toward them. The findings demonstrated the effect of internalizations of socially constructed structural gender expectations on the participants' self-perception, as a men, spouses and parents. The participants' narratives exhibited deferent degrees of dichotomist gender perceptions, delegitimacy for emotional vulnerability, traditional male roles as responsible spouses and parents. These elements intensified frustration and emotional repression of their experience which engendered helplessness and hopelessness. The knowledge generated should serve service providers by enabling professionals to examine IPV in a more holistic and flexible way, and to tailor interventions with men and women, that consider their unique cross-gender characteristics and difficulties. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction. Chromosomal polymorphisms are chromosomal variations in constitutive heterochromatin. For a long time, constitutive heterochromatin has been considered a minor chromosomal rearrangement, composed of highly repetitive DNA sequences that have no coding potential and do not correlate with abnormal phenotypes. However, an increasing number of studies show a higher incidence of chromosomal polymorphism in infertile couples. The aim. To study chromosomal polymorphisms associated with couple infertility and to provide a comparative description of chromosomal polymorphisms associated with female and male infertility in the population of the Republic of Moldova. Materials and Methods. An observational-analytical study was conducted from 2012 to 2022, analyzing 59 karyotypes with chromosomal polymorphisms, of which 23 were female and 36 were male. In 11 couples, chromosomal polymorphisms were present in both partners. The inclusion criteria for the study were the presence of one of the following conditions: failure to conceive after unprotected sexual intercourse for more than one year, recurrent abortions, established sterility as a diagnosis. Results. Results revealed that 25 polymorphic variants were identified in 23 female karyotypes, and 42 polymorphisms were diagnosed in 36 male karyotypes, totaling 67 chromosomal polymorphisms analyzed in the evaluation of 59 karyotypes with chromosomal polymorphisms. The most frequently identified variants associated with infertility in the population of the Republic of Moldova were Yqh+ (23.8%), 1qh+ (11.9%), 9qh+ (8.9%), and 15ph+ (8.9%). In women from the Republic of Moldova, the most commonly detected chromosomal polymorphisms are: 15ph+ (16%), followed by 9qh+ (12%), 1qh+ (12%), 14st (12%), and 13st+ (8%). Polymorphisms 15psts+, 15st+, 16qh+, 17ps+, 14ps+, 21ph+, 21ps+, 21st+, 22ps+, and 14pss+ account for 4%. Men more frequently exhibit chromosomal polymorphisms Yqh+ - 38.0%, 1qh+ - 12.1%, 21ps+, 14ps+, 9qh+, Yqh-7.3%, 15ph+, 15psts+, 13ps+ - 4.8%, 22sts+, 16qh+ - 2.4%. Conclusion. Chromosomal polymorphisms are an important component to consider in the evaluation of couples with infertility. The chromosomal polymorphisms 1qh+ and 9qh+ are commonly found in karyotypes associated with infertility not only in literature data but also in infertile couples from the population of the Republic of Moldova. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Responding to the climate crisis requires social and economic innovation—because climate change is a symptom of patriarchal capitalist systems that are concentrating—rather than distributing—wealth and power. Despite the need for social and economic innovation, technological innovation continues to be prioritized in climate policy and climate investments. This paper reviews the dangers of technological optimism in climate policy by exploring its links to patriarchal systems and masculinity. The disproportionate focus on science and technology emerges from and reinforces “climate isolationism,” a term that I use to refer to the common framing of climate change as an isolated discrete, scientific problem in need of technological solutions. This framing stems from assumptions of patriarchal white-male conceptions of privilege and power that evolve from a colonizing and controlling mindset. Masculine technological optimism is dangerous because it is exclusive, it minimizes the need for social change and social innovation, and it is ineffective in catalyzing inclusive societal transformation. This paper argues that embracing feminist, antiracist values is necessary for transformative climate policies, economic justice, and climate justice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Gender equity and inclusion has taken center stage in business, science, and policy making. We reflect on three systemic challenges that might hinder the rise of qualified women scholars to leadership positions in business schools: (a) The masculine social structure of business schools, (b) a muddled approach to performance evaluation, and (c) an under-representation of research topics that affect women in the workplace. Drawing on the extant science in gender bias and gender equity, combined with the collective expertise and experience of the author team, we offer 12 actionable solutions for gender-inclusive leadership in business schools. We believe that addressing these challenges could benefit all members, not just women, because it could signal more equitable pathways to multiple business school stakeholders and intended beneficiaries, such as students, donors, practitioners, and policy makers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay traces the origin of feminine thought in poststructuralism, which opens up new vistas of experience that differ from traditional philosophical thinking based on a conceptual grasp of the world. Rather than viewing the feminine as the essence of the woman gender, it is seen here as the experience of a plurality of truths produced in the affectedness of the human body by the world. The representative function of language and methodology in traditional philosophy cannot capture the plurality of truths. Feminine experience is not a prerogative of women philosophers or feminist writers. It is accessible even to male philosophers. Since it is the outcome of the affectedness of the body by phenomena, it is accessible to all human beings, irrespective of their gender identities. The construction of the truth of entities in terms of their universal essence has a significant role in forming masculine and feminine experiences. Masculine experience is produced by the representation of conceptual truth by the self. Feminine is a kind of existence prior to self-formation that is in operation in all humans. The linguistic turn in philosophy created by Nietzsche and Saussure is the main force behind the growth of feminine thinking in poststructuralism. It marks the end of the abstract, concept-based thinking of the masculine sort and the formation of the differential thought of the feminine. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Gender role attitudes refer to attitudes toward the appropriate roles, rights, and responsibilities of men and women in society. Evidence indicates that individuals with traditional gender role attitudes tend to prefer mates with sex-typical opposite-sex characteristics in heterosexual men and women. This study examined whether gender role attitudes were associated with vocal masculinity preference in gay men in China. Five hundred and sixty-seven participants aged between 16 and 49 years completed the vocal masculinity preference (voice pitch and vocal tract length; VTLs) and gender role attitudes scale. The results indicated that gay men generally preferred masculine voices (lower voice pitch and longer VTLs) and gender role attitudes were positively correlated with preferences for masculine cues in the voices of men. While individuals indicating an affinity with traditional gender roles exhibited stronger preferences for feminine voices, which were inconsistent with the present hypotheses. The results help us understand the role of traditional gender beliefs in the mate preferences of gay men in China. Furthermore, based on the results, understanding one's gender-role attitudes can help cultivate more diversified criteria for mate selection and facilitate gay men in better choosing suitable mates. Future longitudinal studies should examine the relationship between gender role attitudes and masculine preference changes over time. Whether this relationship differs in the different sexual roles of gay men should also be explored. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper the author explores a cultural narrative that she suggests rests on the concepts of the Feminine and Masculine as such, employing both as though they contain an agreed set of universal givens. These givens are extrapolated from an androcentric perspective on female and male bodies, in particular their biological functions regarding reproduction. The metaphors of the baby‐in‐womb, mother's preoccupation with child and heteronormative sexual relations are the primary cyphers for the narrative. She suggests that remaining unconscious of this narrative, such that it is taken as a universal given, can hamper a person's relation to themselves, the world and others. The author names two concepts, Home and Identity: Home being an hospitable and accommodating space with Identity denoting the one who inhabits the space. In the narrative these two are unhelpfully categorized as belonging to the Feminine and the Masculine respectively. For ease of understanding the author uses a capital letter to designate an abstract idea, and lower case when referring to the concrete or particular. Clinical examples are given throughout the paper to illustrate how acknowledgement and awareness of this narrative might free the analyst or therapist to think more broadly around issues pertaining to space and identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Previous research has demonstrated that parents use language differently toward children based on a child's gender. The current research examines whether adults' preferences for using two important language forms – mental state language and elaborated language – varies as a function of a child's gender expression. In two studies, non-parent adults (n = 238) and parents of 3- to 6-year-old children (n = 217) completed the Mental State Input Inventory (MSII). The MSII describes twelve everyday scenarios involving an adult and a child protagonist. The adult participant is asked to nominate their preferred language for interacting with the child in each scenario. In a novel manipulation, the child protagonist's gender expression was depicted as masculine, feminine, or gender-neutral. Results indicated that both non-parents and parents preferred mental state language significantly more for feminine and gender-neutral children, compared to masculine children. Adult participants also preferred significantly less elaborated language for gender-neutral children compared to masculine and feminine children. These findings suggest that children's gender expression influences how adults prefer to communicate with them. Further, these findings contribute to the existing literature by highlighting the preferences or potential biases in adults' language use as a function of a child's gender expression. Understanding these preferences or biases may aid in promoting inclusive and linguistically rich developmental environments for all children, irrespective of their gender expression. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The effectiveness of coping behavior depends not only on a successful strategy but also on the individual characteristics of a person. Age, sex, intelligence, social status, gender identity - all these influence the coping ability and resilience of an individual. In mo- dern psychological research, there is some confusion between the concepts of ‘sex’ and ‘gender.’ Despite numerous studies on male and female coping strategies, gender differences in coping behavior are still poorly understood. The purpose of the study was to analyze gender-specific coping strategies of middle-aged men and women. Russian men and women (N = 286) were divided by gender (masculine, androgynous, feminine). The research was made using The Bem Sex-Role Inventory (BPRT) and Lazarus Folkman’s Test Ways of Coping Questionnaire (WCQ). This study employed a cross-sectional design. Differences among the groups were assessed using the Kruskal - Wallis H test, Mann - Whitney U test and Student t-test. The specificity of coping behavior was found to be determined by the gender identity of the study participants. The results of the present study support the gender differences hypothesis, since people with differences in biological sexual identity (male and female) use gender-specific coping strategies (masculine, feminine, or androgynous) if their gender orientations are the same. The research of masculinity, androgyny and femininity can become an important step in the long-term study of coping behavior and the basis for a better understanding of the dynamics of human behavior in a stressful situation.

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Present paper undertakes the textual analysis of Kalidasa's play Abhijnanasakuntalam, translated in English by Chandra Rajan. To come up with new insights, the paper critically looks at the feminine and masculine virtues represented by the central characters to carefully analyze their interplay and imprinting on mutual relationship as well as the narrative structure. The paper concludes that both the characters exhibit masculine and feminine as different ways of behavior that embark their own individual trajectories towards complete realization. As long as these virtues are less developed, there are conflicts among the characters resulting from mutual dependency. At the point of maturation however, these virtues enable the characters to co-exist in harmony. The paper thereby concludes with the new insights into the reading of the most celebrated text. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study includes two experiments designed to assess the effects of occupational gender-related stereotypes on information processing and memory performance. These two experiments were conducted in two separate cohorts of undergraduate students (N = 107 and N = 96, respectively). In each of them, we assessed (and confirmed) the presence of an implicit association preferentially linking high status attributes to men using the Implicit Association Test (IAT). We also assessed the effective incorporation of this association into gender-schemata and its consequences for information processing with a memory task that involved remembering the feminine and masculine forms of high or low status professional occupations. Results indicated that, independently of their gender, participants were more likely to forget and less likely to falsely recall the feminine forms of high status professions, whereas the opposite was true for the masculine forms of high status professions. The magnitude of these memory biases was correlated with the IAT scores. Moreover, in agreement with the predictions of gender-schemata theory, these memory biases (and their correlations with IAT scores) were predominantly observed when participants were not adverted that their recall would be evaluated later on (incidental-encoding memory task; Experiment 1), but less so when participants were explicitly instructed to memorize the same feminine and masculine forms of high or low status professional occupations (intentional encoding memory task; Experiment 2). Taken together, these results call into question the notion that gender stereotypes about professional occupations are declining, and they highlight a "men-high-status" association as a major component of these occupational stereotypes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract Background Approximately one fifth of Australian males aged 16+ experience mood, anxiety or substance use disorders in a given year, and suicide by males accounts for three quarters of all suicides annually. However, males with mental health problems are less likely to seek and receive help than their female counterparts. Media campaigns with videos at their core are gaining popularity as a means of promoting help-seeking for mental health difficulties, but few studies have rigorously tested the impact of such videos. This randomised controlled trial tests the effectiveness of a short video promoting help-seeking by Australian men. Methods This study is an online randomised controlled trial (RCT). Participants will attend an online group orientation session, where they will provide consent to participate and complete a baseline questionnaire (T1). After completion of the T1 questionnaire, participants will be randomised to watch either the intervention or control video on a 1:1 basis. After randomisation, participants will be able to access their allocated video for 1 week. Seven days after T1, participants will again be sent links to the video and to the post-exposure questionnaire (T2). One month after T2, participants will be emailed the follow-up questionnaire (T3). The primary outcome will be change in help-seeking intentions from T1 to T2. Secondary outcomes will be changes in help-seeking intentions from T1 to T3, changes in intentions to encourage other males to seek help, self-reliance, and male depression symptoms from T1 to T2 and from T1 to T3. The cost-effectiveness of the intervention will be evaluated. Participants will also complete questions about their opinions of the video and its effects at T2 and T3. Discussion Our video-based intervention is designed to promote help-seeking for mental health difficulties among Australian men. If a lack of net harm is shown to be associated with viewing the intervention video, the video will be publicly released and could have broad impacts on individual and community attitudes towards help-seeking for mental health difficulties, and ultimately enhance men’s mental health and wellbeing. An evaluation of the effectiveness of the intervention is essential to ensure the intervention is achieving its objectives. Trial registration anzctr.org.au 12621001008819

Consumers often use their food choices as an impression management strategy to signal desirable aspects about themselves to others, especially in public places like restaurants and cafeterias, where the presence of others can promote certain consumption choices and preference patterns. In mating contexts, people prefer gender-typical traits and characteristics in a potential partner. Food options can also be classified according to their gender typicality, with certain alternatives perceived as feminine (e.g., salad, seafood) and with other options perceived as more masculine (e.g., steak, burger). Drawing on impression management theories from the drinking and dining domain and literature on sex differences in human mate preferences, we present a high-powered experiment investigating whether consumers’ preferences for masculine or feminine foods depend on the social setting in which the food consumption takes place: dining with an attractive date (mating) or meeting and eating with friends (non-mating). Participants (N = 162, 46.9% females, 53.1% males; age M = 41.8 years, SD = 14.5) were randomly assigned to one of the two experimental conditions (mating vs. non-mating) and were asked to indicate their food preferences for 15 dishes that differed markedly in perceived femininity/masculinity. Consistent with our theorizing, females (males) generally had a stronger preference for foods perceived as more feminine (masculine), thereby supporting the gender-typicality thesis at the aggregate level. Furthermore, females in the mating condition—but not females in the non-mating condition—reported significantly stronger preferences for more feminine food alternatives. However, in direct contrast to our theorizing, males preferred more masculine meals in the non-mating condition (i.e., when dining with friends), whereas this gender-typical tendency did not emerge in the mating condition (i.e., when dining with an attractive date). We discuss the theoretical and practical implications of these findings and present a set of fruitful avenues for future research.

Two decades ago, Adrienne Harris published "Gender as a Soft Assembly," a refreshing, far-reaching paper that intertwines both traditional and cutting-edge psychoanalytic gender theory with anecdotes from Harris's own life as a tomboy in the 1970s. In broadening staid models of development, "Gender as a Soft Assembly" provides the potential for freedom, fluidity, and creativity as an antidote to the rigid, binary constructions of masculinity and femininity. In response, I've summarized the most striking aspects of her paper that coincidentally commingle with my having been a tomboy and offer an opportunity for a reconsideration of my own history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay proposes that the conceptualization of the "sexual" in psychoanalysis must be studied in its polysemy and complexity. It aims to identify some problematic knots in Freud's and Lacan's work when claiming the relationship between sexuality and the unconscious. It examines Oedipus and the castration complex in Freud's, and the formulae of sexuation and the logic of not-all in Lacan's. Finally, it establishes some links between psychoanalysis and the thinking of authors such as Butler and Preciado, among others from the Ljubljana philosophical school, in order to argue that sexuality is an epistemic-political field of action that confronts the biopolitical and historicist approaches with the negative ontology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper discusses gender stereotyping represented in two selected picture books, My Little Book of Stories for Girls and My Little Book of Stories for Boys by Brown Watson (2012). The verbal and visual texts were examined to reveal the symbolical meanings of gender stereotyping which then argued by using Judith Butler’s gender performativity. The analysis results in a clear distinction between the performances of female and male characters. By separating female and male characters into completely different categorizations through their appearances, traits, and behavior, the first picture book represents feminine gender stereotypes that females are princesses who stay in the palace while the second represents masculine gender stereotypes that males are outdoor working individuals.

Objective:Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women, both in Brazil and worldwide. Breast cancer can also affects men but this constitutes only 1% of cases and is thus considered rare, and for this reason is little studied. Statistics indicate an increase in its incidence with an estimate of new cases in recent years. This study aims to analyze the knowledge of higher education students in relation to breast cancer in men. the knowledge of higher education students in relation to breast cancer in men.Materials and Methods:Exploratory study with a quantitative approach. 299 male students participated in the study. Data collection took place through semi-structured questionnaires, completed by students from pure science, human sciences and health at a higher education institution.Results:Regardless of the area of undergraduate study, 65.9% of the volunteers reported not knowing about breast cancer in men. Regarding predisposing factors for the development of breast cancer, 77.3% reported not knowing about these while 68.9% reported not knowing about breast self-examination. However, 67.6% believe that breast cancer in men can be prevented. Worryingly, 62.5% reported that they only seek medical assistance when becoming ill.Conclusion:Evidence from this study suggests that higher level undergraduates have limited knowledge about breast cancer in men. Only one third knew that male breast cancer was possible. Even smaller proportions knew of the predisposing factors for breast cancer, how to perform self-examination and about diagnosis. These latter factors, when combined with a tendency to seek medical help only when ill, suggests a short-fall in health knowledge which should be corrected.

Despite his revolutionary views on Christianity, Merezhkovsky believed in the traditional role of God concerning gender distinction and was attached to the Plato’s idea of androgyns, considering the nature of Christ in androgynous terms. The combination of the notions of gender and personality, that is, the Mysteries of the One and of the Two, must lead, according to Merezhkovsky, to the historical unison of paganism and Christianity, to the Mystery of the Three, e.g. to the Society understood as the Kingdom of Heaven. In this aspect, he moves beyond Rozanov, who also wrote on the bi-gendered nature of Christ. Merezhkovsky widely uses Weininger’s idea of immanent bisexuality of a person while he dismisses Weininger’s thesis that a woman does not possess personality and metaphysical being. Taking into account Rozanov’s suggestion of introducing gender in religion and Weininger’s idea of bisexuality, Merezhkovsky, as the article shows, occupies a somewhat middle position.

There are few sartorial ensembles as heavily signified as masculine as a suit. This article focuses on the suit within queer fashion digital cultures and spaces to explore how butch of colour digital fashion suits up to offer us different ways to think about masculinity. Intervening in the erasure of women of colour in histories of fashion – including menswear – and histories of sexuality – butch, dapper, tomboy, dandy – I argue that butch digital fashion works as a site and composition of flesh, fabric and feeling that reworks masculinity as a project of embodiment. I look at three interwoven dimensions of butch digital fashion – aesthetic process, texture as feeling and spatial imaginations – attending to the themes of fantasy, desire and pleasure. I situate butch within and between fashion studies and media studies to offer butch as a relation, practice, orientation and site of embodiment to think about being and becoming, about the body politics of space and feeling, as matters of race, sexuality, class and gender – and the materialities of race, sexuality, class and gender, mediated by the global, and as the global by the digital. Digital butch fashion is, at once, a visual culture, a creative visual space, a resource of queer fantasy and an aesthetic process. It is messy, tense and fraught with the politics of race, colonialism and class, yet at the same time, dense with possibility, pleasure and eroticism. Butch of colour fashion offers frames and forms for rethinking and remaking masculinity as a sign of a body, as a category of personhood, as a set of practices and feelings made coherent by processes of embodiment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Revered as the 'Queen of Qawwali ' and 'Queen of Sufi music', sixty-seven-year-old Abida Parveen is a spiritual phenomenon who transcends gender while performing. She is known for her signature fashion style of buttoned-up masculine-cut kurta (tunic) with matching shalwar (loose trousers) and an ajrak (block-printed) shawl. Her aesthetic circulates within transnational and national fashion media and popular cultural spaces through descriptors such as androgynous, masculine, modest, indigenous and sacred. As a highly respected figure with widely circulating performances on both the national and international stages, as well through multiple media circuits, including television, social/digital media and broadcast concerts, Parveen's undeniable fame and her transgressive entry into an otherwise male-dominated music genre raises important questions about gender, embodiment, spirituality and the sacred. In analysing Parveen's body and dress in performance, I centre her sartorial style as sites of spirituality and affect to ask: what does it mean for Parveen to transcend gender through a performance of androgynous Sufism and mobilise it as an entry way into spiritual iconism? What imaginations around spirituality and the sacred become available through Parveen's sartorial practices? How does Parveen's style offer an alternative route to Muslim spirituality? Taking up Parveen's embodied coagulation between fashion and the sacred reveals an absence in feminist fashion studies on which subjects and styles are viewed as important, relevant, resistant or transgressive and thus worthy of theorisation. As a feminist scholar interested in the relationship between gender, power and self/representation, I see Parveen as a key global cultural and spiritual figure who necessitates transnational feminist analysis. This article is situated at the intersections of fashion and cultural studies, feminist, queer and trans spiritualities and South Asia studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Vocal characteristics are important cues to form social impressions. Previous studies indicated that men with masculine voices are perceived as engaging in higher rates of infidelity and being less committed to their relationship. In the current study, we examined how women in China perceive information regarding infidelity and relationship investment conveyed by the voices (voice pitch and vocal tract length) of males, and whether different vocal characteristics play a similar role in driving these impressions. In addition, we examined whether these perceptions are consistent in Chinese and English language contexts. The results indicated that women perceived men with more masculine voices (lower voice pitch and longer vocal tract length) as showing a lower likelihood of infidelity and higher relationship investment; further, women who preferred more masculine voices in long-term relationships, but not in short-term relationships, were more likely to perceive men with masculine voices as less likely to engage in infidelity and more likely to invest in their relationship. Moreover, the participants formed very similar impressions irrespective of whether the voices spoke native (Chinese) or foreign (English) languages. These results provide new evidence for the role of the voice in women's choices in selecting long-term partners. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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