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In this paper, we contribute to geographic scholarship on masculinities through an examination of the interweaving of gender and disability in the shifting social geographies of men who live with chronic physical illness. Using an in-depth qualitative and visual arts methodology with men who live with MS and Fibromyalgia, we consider how their changing physical and cognitive capacities can make it difficult to approximate an able-bodied masculinity. Our analysis highlights two key themes. First, the diverse physical and cognitive impacts of chronic illness pose problems for masculine embodiment in different ways in different places. Problems are perhaps most acute in the context of the workplace but also impact gendered domestic geographies. Second, gendered relations of care and support are transformed by experiences of chronic illness. On the one hand, men are increasingly dependent on others for support. This places new demands on existing relationships that impact the doing of gender. On the other hand, changes wrought by chronic illness involve some men more actively in the provision of care. We examine what this means for the re-gendering of care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Situé dans la lignée de l’appréhension de représentations linguistico‑socio‑culturelles dans/par le croisement de discours genrés, cet article tente de mettre en évidence les conceptions sur la féminité et la masculinité à l’ère actuelle dans deux espaces d’Occident : en Colombie et en France. Au prisme de l’hétérogénéité de données, ce travail analyse trois corpus (lexicographique, presse, et sociologique) pour saisir notre objet d’étude, en vertu de l’argument interdiscursif. La saisie des manifestations énonciatives convoque les emprunts de trois sémantiques : sémantique discursive, sémantique des possibles argumentatifs et sémantique de corpus, qui favorisent le décryptage des positionnements sur un phénomène social comme le genre. Il est constaté que les matérialités discursives d’intérêt esquissent un répertoire varié de possibles argumentatifs reflétant, chez les populations, des constructions idéologiques au carrefour de langues et des cultures.

L’article a pour but de confronter deux variantes de « l’imaginaire de la crise » se manifestant dans les pratiques poétiques de deux écrivains francophones contemporains, Michel Houellebecq et Colette Nys-Mazure. L’examen de quelques traits caractéristiques de leurs univers imaginaires, représentés entre autres par les figures du Père et de la Mère, permet de réfléchir sur les motivations profondes de leurs attitudes artistiques et existentielles. Il s’avérera que les stratégies poétiques qu’ils adoptent face aux problèmes existentiels fondamentaux restent en correspondance plus ou moins directe avec les vertus chrétiennes (la foi, l’espérance et l’amour), même si le point de départ pour Houellebecq (athée ou agnostique) est la « part sombre » de l’existence alors que Nys-Mazure (chrétienne, catholique) choisit sa « part claire », tous deux préfèrent construire que démolir. L’intuition d’une transcendance qui émane de leur soif d’harmonie poursuivie dans le monde chaotique contemporain permet de constater que la poésie, contredisant la crise du sujet et celle de la société, détient les moyens qui permettent de s’opposer – non sans succès – à la fameuse « crise de vers ».

The main objective of this qualitative and quantitative research paper is to explore the occurrences and relations of the anima, animus and androgynous in dreams, with particular emphasis on the consideration of the androgynous in the human psyche. The sample consists of 9 series of dreams (141 dreams in total), from 9 dreamers, 7 women (female sex/gender) and 2 men (male sex/gender), aged 25–57, heterosexual, undergoing Jungian psychotherapy, and presenting couple‐related themes. Statistical results and qualitative analysis offer new input for the re‐vision of the classical anima‐animus model, and the addition of in‐depth explorations into the androgynous, paving the way for a new model of psychopathology and psychotherapeutic clinical work, in transition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In 1885 Louis Pasteur successfully treated two boys from different parts of rural France, Joseph Meister and Jean-Baptiste Jupille, with his experimental rabies vaccine. Arguing that the boys played an important role in shaping images of Pasteur and his vaccine in French culture, this article reconstructs their long relationships with the scientist and then traces their evolving cultural representations during the Third Republic up to 1940. Meister, a young child from Alsace who sought salvation in Paris, was particularly assimilable to nationalist narratives that Pasteur himself encouraged. Jupille, in fighting with a rabid dog to save young children from attack, could provide an exemplar of the selfless yet virile male adolescent whom late nineteenth-century authorities sought to produce. Both boys' stories produced associations that reflected favorably on Pasteur and the Pastorians, yet each also held an independent appeal at particular moments in modern French history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

L’article analyse les modèles de construction de la masculinité et de la féminité dans le champ de la violence et de la guerre. Le monde de la guerre médiévale a été généralement considéré comme le domaine des hommes. Mais, par une approche constructiviste, les sources révèlent que les femmes de la noblesse ont eu la responsabilité de l’investir et elles y ont joué un rôle actif. Ce faisant, la complexité des relations entre les sexes est telle que les frontières du genre ne sont nullement figées, mais sans cesse négociées, car actualisées et modifiées par des actes performatifs.

Since the end of the 19th century, under the cloak of hygienic concerns, Puerto Rican elites have devised eugenic practices and methods in order to marginalize, manage, and control certain sectors of the population. Throughout the 20th century, these discourses have been internalized by the Puerto Rican population; reflections of which can be seen in popular culture, including trap and reggaetón. The purpose of this paper is to explore how hygienic practices (rooted in eugenic ideas) have permeated Puerto Rican society and, in turn, are replicated in trap and reggaetón as a way of gendering, racializing, and discriminating against certain groups. In an effort to identify these contemporary eugenic ideas, this article categorizes and analyzes current topics touched upon by trap and reggaetón singers such as Tego Calderón, Jowell y Randy, Anuel AA, and Bryant Myers, among others. Through categories such as desired body type, prospective partners' 'cleanliness'—in regard to 'feminine' and 'personal' hygiene—, potential contraceptive use, and the usage of racist stereotyping, we illustrate how eugenic ideas slip into contemporary understandings of gender and race in Puerto Rico. By performing an in-depth analysis of selected songs, we explore the ways in which ideas surrounding 'race science' have been normalized in Puerto Rican culture, demonstrating how these ideas connect to broader racializing and gendered processes. Desde finales del siglo XIX, bajo el manto de las preocupaciones higiénicas, las élites puertorriqueñas han ideado prácticas y métodos eugenésicos para marginar, administrar y controlar a ciertos sectores de la población. A lo largo del siglo XX, estos discursos han sido interiorizados por la población puertorriqueña; los cuales se pueden ver reflejados en la cultura popular, incluyendo el trap y el reggaetón. El propósito de este artículo es explorar cómo las prácticas higiénicas (enraizadas en ideas eugenésicas) han permeado la sociedad puertorriqueña y, a su vez, se replican en el trap y el reggaetón como una forma de generizar, racializar y discriminar a ciertos grupos. En un esfuerzo por identificar estas ideas eugenésicas contemporáneas, este artículo categoriza y analiza temas actuales abordados por cantantes de trap y reggaetón como Tego Calderón, Jowell y Randy, Anuel AA y Bryant Myers, entre otros. A través de categorías como el tipo de cuerpo deseado, la "limpieza" de las posibles parejas —en lo que respecta a la higiene "femenina" y "personal"—, el uso potencial de anticonceptivos y el uso de estereotipos racistas, ilustramos cómo las ideas eugenésicas se deslizan en la comprensión contemporánea del género y la raza en Puerto Rico. Al realizar un análisis en profundidad de canciones seleccionadas, exploramos las formas en que las ideas en torno a la "ciencia racial" se han normalizado en la cultura puertorriqueña, demostrando cómo estas ideas se conectan con procesos de género y racialización más amplios. Depuis la fin du XIXe siècle, sous le couvert de préoccupations hygiéniques, les élites portoricaines ont imaginé des pratiques et des méthodes eugéniques afin de marginaliser, gérer et contrôler certains secteurs de la population. Tout au long du XXe siècle, ces discours ont été intériorisés par la population portoricaine ; dont on peut voir des reflets dans la culture populaire, y compris le trap et le reggaetón. Le but de cet article est d'explorer comment les pratiques hygiéniques (enracinées dans les idées eugénistes) ont imprégné la société portoricaine et, à leur tour, sont reproduites dans le trap et le reggaetón comme un moyen de sexuer, de racialiser et de discriminer certains groupes. Dans un effort pour identifier ces idées eugénistes contemporaines, [End Page 78] cet article catégorise et analyse les sujets actuels abordés par les chanteurs de trap et de reggaetón tels que Tego Calderón, Jowell y Randy, Anuel AA et Bryant Myers, entre autres. À travers des catégories telles que le type de corps souhaité, la « propreté » des partenaires potentiels —en ce qui concerne l'hygiène « féminine » et « personnelle » —, l'utilisation potentielle de contraceptifs et l'utilisation de stéréotypes racistes, nous illustrons comment les idées eugéniques se glissent dans les compréhensions contemporaines du genre et de la race à Porto Rico. En effectuant une analyse approfondie de chansons sélectionnées, nous explorons la manière dont les idées entourant la « science raciale » ont été normalisées dans la culture portoricaine, démontrant comment ces idées se connectent à des processus plus larges de racialisation et de genre. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article aims to study the vision of Tahar Ben Jelloun towards the body through which the social and cultural situation of the Maghreb countries is clarified. The Moroccan author charges the body with the Arab-Muslim tradition, with male domination and culture, with the erasure of women in society. Hadj Ahmed Souleïmane, in a country that favours men, after having had seven daughters, he feels dishonoured, castrated, finally to repair this evil and rehabilitate his honour, he makes his daughter a boy, from birth, who will be the man of the family, his heir, not only of material goods but essentially of the values of masculinity and patriarchy. He manipulates both his daughter's body and her way of thinking, teaching her how to become a man according to tradition, also inspecting her body, her reactions and her actions. The body is thus polysemous, through which we understand Ben Jelloun's vision of gender, culture, family education, society, the male/female relationship and religion. Ben Jelloun uses the body for subversive reasons in order to deconstruct society's vision of the body, of the values and culture that determine society. In his work, the body thus consists in condemning and denouncing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Research on geographies of care identifies care work as a low-paid, menial and ultimately feminized activity. Much of the work in the field, unsurprisingly, has focused upon the plight of women and how the division of labour produces and sustains gender inequalities. We are interested in how new generations understand gender, work and care and the possibilities for generating heterogeneous, caring masculinities. Using creative methods, we engage young people in a series of critical masculinities workshops through which participants are asked to reflect upon what it means to be a man and materialize these ideas through arts and craft. Our school-based discussions with young people and their artworks reveal how participants place an acute emphasis on the felt, affective and emotional register of caring masculinities. We explore their creative endeavours to critically interrogate care as a gendered concept, interpret its 'troubled' relationship to masculinity, and analyse possibilities for future change. Our findings suggest masculine care practices have the potential to challenge and redistribute power across the gender order. However, we further found that hegemonic forms of masculinity could become consolidated and recuperated through caring acts, meaning gender power relations are not easily disrupted simply by men becoming caring. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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La construcción de la masculinidad, entendida ésta como educación en el privilegio, la libertad, la multiplicidad de opciones y la seguridad de que, por el solo hecho de haber nacido varón, se es intrínsecamente valioso e importante, ¿lleva a los varones a elegir la muerte de aquel o aquéllos que los molestan, los incomodan, los confrontan, como la única solución posible para continuar adelante? Así, ¿podríamos decir que los varones eligen matar por encima de cualquiera otra opción? Elección ésta que nos habla de una masculinidad que lleva al extremo sus opciones y concepciones sobre la vida y esos otros que, cabría pensar, están ahí, justamente para aprender a convivir con ellos en un mundo de razón, madurez, equilibrio y, ¿por qué no decirlo? humana ternura. Nuestra investigación, la que nos dimos a la tarea de realizar mi equipo: Doctorando en Derecho Penal, Leonardoi Mendívil Chávez, Psicóloga Lydia Martínez Valdez y Dra. Zonia S. Peterson, fue de índole cualitativa; se llevó a cabo en varios de los penales del estado de Sonora. Entrevistamos a cientos de homicidas, entre los cuales resaltan los que vienen a continuación.

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The term "New Frontier" has become synonymous across historical scholarship with the thirty-fifth president of the United States of America, John F. Kennedy. The origins of the term, however, prove murkier. According to former Canadian prime minister John G. Diefenbaker, the Kennedy campaign stole the phrase from him to "great advantage" but "without attribution." Indeed, Diefenbaker's "New Frontier" policies were instrumental in his rise to power several years before Kennedy ran for president. This article explores the Canadian electoral campaigns of 1957 and 1958. Across these two contests, Diefenbaker's Progressive Conservatives narrowly defeated the longstanding Liberal government of Louis St. Laurent, before going on to win the then-largest parliamentary majority in Canadian history. The article argues that the Progressive Conservatives' "New Frontier" policies and the branding of Diefenbaker as a self-made man were instrumental in his victory and were effective because they spoke to the historical moment. Indeed, to a certain extent they were a performative political device. The late 1950s were the era of the "other-directed man," to quote David Riesman, where concerns about the erosion of individuality and manliness led to a newfound fascination with the frontier and wilderness. Diefenbaker and the Progressive Conservatives managed to harness this nostalgia and appealed to the growing desire for agency and self-fulfilment in the populace. His past as a Saskatchewan-raised homesteader was utilized in lending credibility to his status as a frontiersman, and he promised Canadians that under a Progressive Conservative government he would lead them toward "adventure ... to the nation's utmost bounds, to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Masculinity is considered through the question 'What am I supposed to be?' A poem of polarity describes the profusion of possible ways of being and ways of knowing what to be. The author refers to her own experience of seemingly contradictory expectation on gender. The author calls in aid the work of Judith Butler. What are the ways people use to try to alleviate the confusion, to hammer out the contradictions, and how do these play out in our clients, ourselves and the systems we inhabit? Definitions, narratives, the policing of speech and behaviour, colonisation, denial and abjection of otherness might be some of the ways. The constitution of Masculinity is considered in Structural and Post-Modern terms, particularly the work of Jacques Lacan. The author asks if the ideas of Emmanuel Levinas about alterity and the primacy of the other might be helpful in working with the clients' interactions with masculinity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, I begin by exploring the Freudian and Lacanian theories of masculinity and how they revalorise the role and law of the father and his patriarchal power. I perform a criticism of these theories by using Castoriadis' emphasis on the importance of brotherly co-operation in the formation of community. I then move on to critically examine how Lacanian theorists have excluded considerations of class in their account of the origins of the Law and its application which prohibits an adequate redressing of social injustice. I conclude by providing a brief account of the life of my father as a working-class man and how I performed a similar exclusion of class oppression from my theoretical and practical considerations as a way of creating distance from him. This account is an attempt to reconnect with a man who was not only my father, but also my 'brother in suffering'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author describes the prevalence of compulsion to child pornography and notes the sparsity of psychoanalytic engagement with the phenomenon. The author describes his work in a psychoanalytic treatment with a man plagued by a compulsion to child pornography and illustrates the internal dynamics of unmetabolized trauma, identifications and erasure. At the center of the healing process is the patient's painful recognition that the compulsion embodies a destruction of self and that he is identified with both the child victim and the perpetrators in the pornographic scenarios. The phases of the treatment are described and the author recommends an unobtrusive companioning psychoanalytic approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is a phenomenology of masculinity, leading into questions of authority and ideology. Phenomenology draws on one's experience, which includes here the author's experience of being drawn to thinkers in the phenomenological and (psycho)analytical traditions, such as Levinas, Freud, Husserl, Heidegger, and Lacan. Recognition is regarded as the key to becoming what we are, in a complex 'thrownness' which we cannot escape. It appears that coming to know one's masculinity (and femininity) is part of this becoming; some things do not change, expressing the inert quality (Hegelian bone-like) and repetitiveness of ideology. Recognition is dependent on who has the authority to recognise the other, and this is explored in terms of the therapist's authority. The importance of openness to the other person, and oneself as a therapist, is seen as crucial in allowing a space for a discovery of embodied meanings. But a longstanding dominant ideology of scientism has led to alienation from such embodiment, and one reaction to this may be an appeal to a kind of authoritarian certainty in politics. Ultimately, we only have ourselves in what appears to be an urgent struggle for free speech in therapies, and in the world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Now, over five decades after the events at Sir George Williams College, what are the possibilities for Black radical action in Canada? And what, or rather who, stands in the way of such possibilities? In order to get close to these questions, this article examines Austin Clarke's last published book of poetry, In Your Crib. I argue that through the figure of the elder persona, Clarke explores the limitations of respectability politics--manifested through the adoption of liberal reformist politics by former Black radicals--as well as the problematics of attachments to linear teleological perspectives of Black radical politics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After his essay Des hommes justes: Du patriarcat aux nouvelles masculinités (2020), Historian-writer Ivan Jablonka felt compelled to publish an autobiographical account of his personal experience growing up and being raised as a boy entitled Un garçon comme vous et moi (2021). This article investigates the originality of Ivan Jablonka's individual perception of manhood in a collective "gender autobiography" bridging social sciences with literature, and discusses the universal quality and relevance of his appeal to new ways of thinking masculinity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Place and gender are key notions for interpreting gambling. Canvassing the work of Deleuze and Guattari, this article elaborates the concept of sports betting assemblages to better understand the everyday geographies of gambling. The account draws on a sensory ethnography with young men who use smartphone sports betting applications in the context of the regional city of Wollongong, Australia. It asks what geographers can contribute to gambling studies when sports betting and the socio-material arrangements that constitute them are conceived as essential components of place and gender. Our aim is to open debates about sports betting and risk beyond a conventional focus on genetics, psychological makeup, social structures and representations. Particular attention is given to the emotional and affective geographies found in the making and unmaking of sports betting using smartphone betting applications. We argue that paying attention to emotions and affective geographies is critical if accounts of sports betting applications are to move beyond simplified biological or representational accounts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article explores cultural constructions of hockey, violence, and masculinity through a close examination of one of the game's most successful and prominent players in the postwar period, Gordie Howe. By combining skill and scoring ability with toughness, physicality, and a willingness to fight when necessary, Howe epitomized many qualities of the ideal hockey player over the course of his lengthy professional career, which extended from 1946 to 1980. In particular, this study focuses on media coverage of Howe's highly publicized fight against Lou Fontinato of the New York Rangers on February 1, 1959. Using Canadian and American newspapers and magazines as the primary research base, we analyze media representations of Gordie Howe in the context of ideals and anxieties related to North American masculinity following the Second World War. Historians have identified this period as a time when Canadian and American manhood was perceived to be in decline. We argue that Howe demonstrated a combination of controlled violence and humble manliness suggested by his early nickname in the Detroit press, the "Bashful Basher." Howe's rational and expert application of violence – especially in contrast to the emotional Fontinato – firmly established his masculine credentials within the culture of hockey, while positioning him more widely as a "modern" yet rugged role model for masculine renewal in postwar Canada. Howe's example of gentlemanly masculinity normalized and celebrated a culture of fighting in hockey while establishing a standard of conduct for superstar players that persists to the present day. At the same time, cultural constructions of Howe's manhood contributed to the entrenchment of a dominant version of heroic, white, heteronormative hockey masculinity in Canadian life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In the post-structural adjustment Southwest Region of Cameroon, young men are finding it increasingly difficult to achieve social adulthood and are turning to migration as a solution. During the past two decades, the transnational market of association football players has expanded and for young Cameroonian men football has emerged as one of the most desirable ways to migrate. Many young men are inspired by African footballers in elite international leagues and seek opportunities to play abroad and begin earning a livelihood. But opportunities for transnational mobility and careers in professional sport are rare and precarious. For footballers, their managers, and their families, success and failure are tied to the uncertainties of football and migration, but even more so to issues of moral standing and masculinity. Masculinity emerges as a result of self-fashioning as moral subjects, driven by new and old gendered aspirations to engage globalized markets and fulfill family demands of economic redistribution. Evocations of masculinity and morality reveal why young men aspire to precarious careers in sports, but can also obscure the uncertainties of transnational markets and the elusiveness of adulthood in structurally adjusted Africa [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Effeminate gay and bisexual men are targets of double stigmatization because of anti-effeminacy and society's homophobia, even among the non-heterosexual community. This study aimed to investigate, in an exploratory way, the relational structure of anti-effeminacy through network analysis. An online survey was carried out with 1,123 non-heterosexual Brazilian men over 18 years old and with a mean age of 26.85 years (SD = 8.51). The relational model of anti-effeminacy produced in this study found associations with internalized homophobia (rp = 0.32) and predilection for more manlike partners (rp = 0.45). In addition, it was possible to identify an indirect relationship with the opening of sexual orientation, which occurs through internalized homophobia. This study, in addition to being the first one to develop a network analysis on antieffeminacy, contributes to the understanding of the phenomenon in the Brazilian context, providing perspectives for further research in the field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author explores clinical implications of Julia Kristeva's concept of the abject. The abject describes the developmental moment when the infant is first separating from the mother, when separation of self from other is incomplete and tenuous. The other, still desired, must be made abject, extruded from the self with a lingering sense of horror and terror. The concept of the abject underlies the feelings of desire and fear directed toward the "feminine" or the maternal body by individuals and society and provides an explanation of misogyny. The author provides clinical material to illustrate this concept in men who loathe and desire the female body, and in women who hate themselves and their female bodies. The clinical cases raise issues about the primitive affect of horror, how the abject is related to early narcissism, and the inseparability of desire, affect, defence, and object. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The work developed aimed at investigating "toxic masculinity", a term that has gained prominence and is currently used to refer to violence and virility as characteristics that are typical of men. Its development consisted of extensive bibliographic research, which raised questions about the male in psychoanalysis, addressing the works of Freud and Lacan, and the possible relations with gender theories. Starting from a non-essentialist notion about masculinity, we raise the hypothesis that the idea of man or masculine in psychoanalysis can come from at least two perspectives: the first of these corresponds to the attempt to confirm the male countenance, in which violence appears as an attempt to repair the tear in the male face; the second, based on the notion of phallic enjoyment, which, when producing an "all-man" set, displays the contradictory attempts to unify this set, before which violence and virility are recognized as characteristics that maintain the illusion of unity. With this thought exercise, we consider this shedding light on the complex dynamics that condenses in the adjective "toxic" removes it from the insidious and inescapable character present in its use, allowing the formulation of other possible positions for the exercise of masculinity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the period between 1890 and 1909, the press played a crucial role in the dissemination of gender identities. It would be through the media of this era where the different expressions of masculinity and femininity were condemned, signaled, and promoted. In this investigation, the Madrid newspaper, EL ÁLBUM IBERO-AMERICANO, is the principal source used in order to trace these alterations. The methodology used to localize the marks of these changes, above all those related to the masculine, has been to select the opinion articles most connected with the modifications in these gender paradigms. The information obtained from the analysis of these articles has been complemented with the localization of the advertising section of the newspaper, of products linked to these changes, such as Pastillas Bonald or the Polvos Coza. This research concludes that EL ÁLBUM IBERO-AMERICANO was more than a feminine newspaper. From its pages, masculine alternatives were offered so that their readers would leave aside social expressions that were more typical of what from this medium was defined as «ugly sex» than of men who intended to live in an open society with parity between the sexes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Music has often served as a vehicle for sexual expression. But within a musical context saturated with many sonic phenomena, music-analytical tools can be limited in their ability to pinpoint evidence of sex acts, pleasure, or satisfaction. Centering on sonic experience and perception, this article challenges the common trope of the disembodied and disinterested music theorist by proposing that, rather than neglecting sexual discourses, like-minded music theorists have instead established a veritable field founded on the commonly-held belief that sex and music are (in some cases) interchangeable. The article proposes that the meta-theorization of these engagements constitutes a discursive "social epistemology" thereby positioning such diverse contributions as part of the core music-theoretical "standard" of what was once called "mainstream music theory.". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Résumé: Cet article se propose de considérer les institutions scolaires missionnaires comme un lieu où se forgent des masculinités. Il présente l' idéal masculin que mettent en avant les missionnaires jésuites de la mission de Syrie à la fin du XIXe siècle et au début du XXe. Cet homme, qui appartient à une élite sociale, est avant tout un catholique soumis aux autorités religieuses, prêt à mourir pour sa foi et à lutter pour défendre sa patrie. Il est éduqué dans un entre soi masculin et intériorise une véritable ségrégation de l' espace en fonction du sexe. Cette vision de la masculinité diffère d' autres modèles en vogue à l' époque, ce qui illustre aussi la diversité des modèles qui pouvaient alors circuler au Moyen-Orient. This paper deals with missionary schools as places where education shaped masculinities. It describes the ideal man the Jesuit missionaries at Saint Joseph University in Beirut wanted to promote at the end of the Ottoman period and the beginning of the Mandates. This ideal man was a Catholic man submitted to the religious authorities and ready to die for his faith and to defend his homeland. This man was educated in a masculine environment and internalized a strict gendered segregation of space. This Catholic view of masculinity differs from other models in vogue at the same time. This fact also illustrates the variety of models that circulated in the Middle East at the end of the 19th century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Starting from the premise that school is a 'major site of masculinity formation' (Connell, 1996), this article studies the construction of boyhood in the industrial schools of the Salesian mission in Egypt between 1900 and 1939. Analysis of the teaching tools and methods, and of the processes of conformity used in these schools run by Italian missionaries, reveals that they became forums for confrontation and negotiation between different models of masculinity. This article uses the case study of the Salesian schools to shed new light on the interconnections between missionary programmes, fascist imperialism and schooling strategies of the pupils and their families. Ultimately, it seeks to demonstrate how missionary schools contributed to the gendered construction of technical expertise and industrial education in Egypt. Résumé: Partant du postulat que l' école constitue l' un des «principaux sites de formation de la masculinité» (Connell 1996), cet article interroge la fabrique des garçons à l' œuvre dans les écoles industrielles de la mission salésienne en Égypte entre 1900 et 1939. L' analyse des outils, des pratiques pédagogiques et du processus de disciplinarisation des élèves révèle que les écoles tenues par les missionnaires italiens deviennent un lieu d' affrontement et de négociation de différents modèles de masculinité. À travers l' étude du cas des établissements salésiens, il s' agit d' apporter un nouvel éclairage sur les articulations entre projet missionnaire, impérialisme fasciste et stratégies de scolarisation des élèves et de leurs familles. Enfin, cet article cherche à démontrer que les écoles de la mission participent à la construction genrée du savoir-faire technique et de l' enseignement industriel en Égypte. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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