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Modifying the Body: Canadian Men's Perspectives on Appearance and Cosmetic Surgery
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Ricciardelli, Rosemary; White, Philip – Qualitative Report, 2011
In postmodern scholarship there has been a temporal shift to thinking of the body as malleable rather than fixed, which has opened space for the remaking of the self via the remaking of the body (Featherstone, 1991; Giddens, 1991). Among men, this process is thought to interact with shifting understandings of masculinity. In this study, 14…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Males, Self Concept, Human Body
Gender, Masculinities and Lifelong Learning
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Bowl, Marion, Ed.; Tobias, Robert, Ed.; Leahy, Jennifer, Ed.; Ferguson, Graeme, Ed.; Gage, Jeffrey, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012
"Gender, Masculinities and Lifelong Learning" reflects on current debates and discourses around gender and education, in which some academics, practitioners and policy-makers have referred to a crisis of masculinity. This book explores questions such as: Are men under-represented in education? Are women outstripping men in terms of…
Descriptors: Females, Educationally Disadvantaged, Lifelong Learning, Foreign Countries
L/earning a Living: Practices and Recognition of Women's On-the-Job and Informal Learning in the Information Technology Field
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Jubas, Kaela; Butterwick, Shauna; Zhu, Hong; Liptrot, Jen – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2006
Information technology (IT) has been characterized as central to globalization and nation-states' competitive edge in the global economy. A highly masculinized field, IT is paradoxically characterized as gender-neutral, a field which expands opportunities for women's career and income development. For these reasons, feminist researchers regard it…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Foreign Countries, Females, Gender Issues
Within the New Moment--An Interview with Judith Halberstam
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Crowley, Vicki – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2004
In April 2002 Judith Halberstam, academic, cultural critic and author of "Female Masculinity", toured Australia giving public and academic lectures about her recent work on sub-cultures, the Brandon Teena archive, representations of the transgender body and her notion of female masculinity. The interview is introduced through a brief…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Masculinity, Sexual Identity