Browsing University of Central Oklahoma by Subject "Masculinity"
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Defensive reactions to masculinity threat.
(2012)Compensatory behavior are defined as behaviors that are intended to make up for a perceived lack of competency in a particular area. The present studies investigated how men compensate for perceived masculinity threats. ... -
Gendering the black body : race, masculinity, and violence in the First World War era.
(2018)This thesis examines the phenomena of lynching through the lens of gender and identity by exploring social constructions of black masculinity in the United States. The US lynching culture that emerged in the late nineteenth ... -
Meat makes the man: the hierarchies of masculinity and meat eating in Shakespearean drama
(2018)This thesis explores how Shakespeare's dramatic works highlight the complex relationships between the hierarchies of masculinity and meat eating. The theoretical backing consists of both gender-based and ecocritical writings. ... -
Resisting change: toxic masculinity in the post modern United States Armed Forces, (1980s-Present)
(2019)This thesis examines the changes regarding women and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ+) serving and toxic masculinity in the United States Armed Forces from the end of Operation Just Cause to the War ... -
Victims of patriarchy : failed masculinity in nineteenth-century American literature.
(2012)The United States was built upon foundations of patriarchy which called for men to demonstrate their masculinity publicly. In the nineteenth-century, as middle- and upper-class Americans began to populate cities, there ...