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This article provides the result of a review of existing masculinity research within the university context. The objective of the present study was to determine the topics of analysis, characteristics, and tendencies of recent studies in this field. A search was performed in Scopus and Ebsco, using the search terms: masculinity and university students, which yielded 72 studies for analysis. The most commonly-explored topics among the investigations reviewed were as follows: the construction of masculinity, masculine social norms and gender stereotypes, romantic relationships, masculinity and health, attitudes toward sexual minorities and their effects, masculinity and violence, and masculinity and alcohol consumption. It was concluded that the shaping of masculinity in the university environment is a complex experience, influenced by the intermixing of traditional masculinity and vested with cultural, social, historical, and personal factors.

Derived from vernacular and esoteric sources, the research has revealed a series of common visual tropes whose symbolism I unpack through my interdisciplinary art practice as poetic expressions of jalāl (majesty) and jamāl (beauty), to illustrate how Pakistani artists may construct and critically analyse representations of male bodies and the myths of Islamic masculinity, whether present or inferred. This expands the methods artists can use to construct culturally informed masculinities that engage with social, political and religious factors, providing alternative readings to the hegemonic Western notions of Islamic male identity that are often imposed in studies of the Islamic world. Responding to how Islamic masculinities and Pakistani Muslim men specifically are perceived around the world, Pakistani artists have addressed these problems, but for complex cultural reasons the potential for misinterpretation has stymied in depth exploration. This means that Islamic masculinity in the Visual Arts continues to rely on mainstream Western neo-Orientalist readings premised on a monolithic Islam emptied of history, diversity and dissent. Furthermore, Western gender models remain inadequate in identifying Islamic models beyond their legalist tradition, corporeality, and 'essentialist' social roles. Through studio-based research, the thesis addresses these issues to develop a more robust model for visualising a Pakistani masculinity that accepts the polymorphous realities of gender dynamics in Islamic visual culture. As a male Pakistani Muslim artist who has lived most of his adult life in the West, my point of departure is gender theory from within Islam itself: I argue the traditional Islamic gender concepts, jalāl (majesty) and jamāl (beauty), provide a model for a 'balanced' Islamic masculinity that is fluid and heterogeneous. Furthermore, upon analysis of this model and its application to conceptual and visual practices, I coined the descriptor, 'Art of Barzakh' (Barzakh's literal translation, 'a veil or partition ...

Addressing the challenges facing adolescent black males, this book analyzes and stresses the importance of identity development. It helps educators and parents understand the importance of cultivating a positive black male identity and how this overlooked aspect of childhood development impacts young adults. Solutions for finding a balance between academics and social activities are also provided

There is a relatively robust body of scholarship examining popular cultural representations of masculinity, yet there is comparatively little research on the men who take up and perform these representations. Based on interviews with 12 men in the performing arts, including dance, theater, film, and television, we examine the everyday lived experiences of men in the arts, with a specific focus on the complex and dynamic processes by which normative masculine performances are materialized. Using Judith Butler's theory of performativity, we argue that performances of normative masculinity in the arts are not nearly as stable and certain as we might imagine. Rather, normative masculinity is continuously formed and re-formed within an assemblage of discursive and nondiscursive relations that performatively materialize the seemingly stable white, heteronormative masculine subject.

This article reflects on how the authors in this Special Forum collectively advance the work in the subfield of critical masculinity studies. The several significant themes emerging in this collection of articles include: persistent state intervention in gender relations, the impact of longstanding patriarchal norms, the rapidly changing postwar gender equilibrium, and the continuing significance of war and martial masculinity. Furthermore, the Special Forum illuminates the importance of micro-histories and ego-documents to the study of masculinities in Central and East Europe. Finally, by framing agency as a relational process affected by a variety of constraints, these authors' work marks a productive forward movement for the future study of critical masculinity studies more generally.

Hartnäckig hält sich die Ansicht, es gäbe »in echt« nur zwei Geschlechter. Diese heteronormative Zweigeschlechtlichkeit wird sowohl durch die Wissenschaften als auch durch visuelle Repräsentationen von Geschlecht aufrechterhalten. Als Einsprüche in solch hegemoniale Wissensformationen diskutiert Josch Hoenes queere/trans* Fotografien von Del LaGrace Volcano und Loren Cameron sowie den Film »Boys Don't Cry« aus transdisziplinärer Perspektive: Welche Potenziale besitzen kulturell-künstlerische Arbeiten, um Geschlechterformationen von Trans*personen denk- und lebbarer werden zu lassen? Und welche