This is an intuitive finding, but we had little empirical evidence of it until now. It highlights the critical role fathers play in steering boys towards healthier expressions of masculinity.
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Interviews with women officers show the extent of misogynistic culture within police forces.
The manosphere may not strictly be centred on misogyny, but in young men’s search for connection, truth, control, and community at a time where all are increasingly uncertain and ill-defined.
With sexism embedded into today’s social media landscape, it’s easy to ignore that conversations about equality can benefit both men and women.
Sexual abuse allegations in Canadian hockey reveal the toxic masculinity that has permeated across sport culture.
Andrew Tate’s content offers a toxic blend of self-improvement and male supremacism.
Online personalities like Andrew Tate are using social media to amplify their misogynist and anti-woman rhetoric. Social media companies deplatforming them can cut them off from followers and revenue.
“Toxic masculinity” has been used to explain everything from the election of Donald Trump to why Ross from Friends is awful. But what does it actually mean?
Research into 70 new Taliban policies to control women and girls shows the extremist, misogynistic group might be using different tactics, but it still poses grave dangers to Afghan society.
The truth is that there are no easy and quick fixes, such as the governing party’s recent castration idea, which falls short on a range of scores.
Hockey Canada has fallen short of its mission to ‘Lead, Develop and Promote Positive Hockey Experiences’ in its handling of sexual violence perpetrated by and against Hockey Canada players.
A recent jury examining murders of women urged the federal government to add the term femicide and its definition to the Criminal Code.
Is Hockey Canada sincere in their quest for reform? Or has a freeze on federal funding and an exodus of major sponsors forced their hand?
This brainy feminist romp of a novel, loved by Rachel Cusk and Maria Semple, is often compared to Brideshead Revisited. But Carol Lefevre says it’s more like a sexy, sweary version of Nancy Mitford in 1960s London.
New research shows how threats of self-harm and suicide are a tactic of coercive control men use against female partners.
Euphoria tackles the status quo head on with an esthetic that transgresses the codes of television, while criticizing several taboos and social issues.
The author of Shuggie Bain returns to the public housing schemes of 1980s working-class Glasgow to explore the redemptive power of secure love and the dangers of violent, dominating masculinity.
In this special edition of ‘Don’t Call Me Resilient,’ we chat about how “the slap heard around the world” is part of a layered story of racism, sexism, power and performance.
A study of global far-right movements and their hashtags on Twitter have revealed similarities that display a reliance on long-held myths, including the idea of a “golden age of freedom.”
Years after the Sandy Hook massacre, school shootings are still frequent. Addressing the problem head-on takes more than ‘thoughts and prayers.’
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Professor of Sociology, Queensland University of Technology
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Werklund Research Professor, Masculinities Studies, University of Calgary
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Professeur, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
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Masculinities Scholar, Cardiff Metropolitan University
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Professeure associée au département des sciences sociales, Université du Québec en Outaouais et à l'Institut de recherches et d'études féministes, UQAM, Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO)
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Associate Professor in Literary Studies, Monash University
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Professorial Fellow, Jumbunna IHL, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Marketing, RMIT University
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Professor of Organisational Psychology, Griffith University
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Senior lecturer in History and International Relations, Curtin University
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Senior Lecturer in the Dept of History & the American and Canadian Studies Research Centre, University of Birmingham
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Honorary Senior Lecturer, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, School of Education, Edith Cowan University
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Associate professor, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Political Science and Chair of the South African Research Initiative in Gender Politics, Stellenbosch University
