Gregory Wood's Retiring Men examines the intersection between masculinity, work, and retirement in the first six decades of the twentieth century. He argues that the crisis over retirement in a changing economy shaped connections between manhood and work during these years, an issue of real...
gender
Willa Brown published a piece in the Atlantic yesterday on "lumbersexuality" and a crisis of masculinity. By lumbersexuality, Brown means the logger fetish a certain subset of bearded hipster men.
After Coca-Cola cut the cocaine after the formula, it was very important to let drinkers know that it was "pleasing without being effeminate."
From the Ladies Home Journal, May 1957: After taking this quiz, act appropriately. Whatever that may be.
1) A small puppy, if walked real hard first, will sit quietly outside long enough for a decent taping with no unseemly background noise. (I had worried about that.) 2).
JEM fighters will put down their arms for the opportunity to join the Sudanese army at 500 euros a head. Perhaps this will slow conflict-related violence in the region, perhaps.
The Economist has a damning article about son preference and female infanticide in East Asia, and the negative impacts on societies and regional stability as well as on girls. Heartening to see an important global gender issue make the front page of such an influential...
Among events I attended last week at the International Studies Association Annual Conference: an informal discussion on the relationship between IR feminist theory and security studies, organized by my Duck.
The comments thread on this NPR story about aid distribution in Haiti is interesting. Relief organizations have begun distributing food through women on the assumption that it is likelier to.