Tag: masculinity
Sinatra’s films shattered the postwar myth of the white American male
Karen McNally, London Metropolitan University
Frank Sinatra’s 100th birthday on December 12 is being celebrated with all the requisite fanfare: Alex Gibney’s HBO documentary Sinatra:...
Sam Smith’s ambitious attempt to reshape the Bond song lands with...
Adrian Daub, Stanford University and Charles Kronengold, Stanford University
Like most James Bond fans, we couldn’t wait to hear the theme song for Spectre, the...
What happens to men who stay abstinent until marriage?
Sarah Diefendorf, University of Washington
Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson and his girlfriend, the singer Ciara, recently announced plans to remain sexually abstinent until marriage.
It...
King hits: young men, masculinity and violence
By Raewyn Connell, University of Sydney
The recent outcry in Sydney about “alcohol-fuelled violence” has many people asking whether young men are out of control,...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
