Hegemonic Masculinity and Globalization: ‘Transnational Business Masculinities’ and Beyond

Hegemonic Heterosexual Masculinity BLYE FRANK

Hegemonic masculinity, structural violence, and health inequalities

There is persuasive evidence that the reduction of health inequalities can only be achieved by addressing their fundamental causes, as opposed to the diseases through which they are expressed at any given time, or the immediate precursors of those diseases (Phelan et al 2004). This explains both the persistence of health inequalities over time and the failure of policies which only target their...

Elite schools, postcolonial Chineseness and hegemonic masculinities in Singapore

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Hegemonic masculinity: combining theory and practice in gender interventions

The concept of hegemonic masculinity has been used in gender studies since the early-1980s to explain men's power over women. Stressing the legitimating power of consent (rather than crude physical or political power to ensure submission), it has been used to explain men's health behaviours and the use of violence. Gender activists and others seeking to change men's relations with women have mo...

Globalization, Pedagogical Imagination, and Transnational Literacy

In his article, "Globalization, Pedagogical Imagination, and Transnational Literacy," Ezra Yoo-Hyeok Lee explores the juncture of comparative literature, globalization and postcolonial studies as to how creative writers, literary critics, and cultural theorists respond to globalization and its challenges. Arjun Appadurai expounds that globalization has demanded new research conceptualization an...