Transsexual masculinity construction in Poland

Extradosed Bridges in Poland—Design and Construction

The road and railway infrastructure in Poland has been intensively developed and modernized for the last years. Around 300 new bridges are built annually. Among the new structures, there is a group of modern extradosed bridges. This paper presents examples of short-, medium-, and long-span extradosed bridges designed and built in recent years in Poland. The following structures are described in...

Gender Differences in Bullying and the Social Construction of Masculinity

In the past ten years considerable attention has been devoted in the literature to violence in schools, especially, bullying behaviour. Research has established that this form of violent behaviour is an endemic problem as school students seek to develop a system of attitudes and values based on mixed social messages from today’s society. The inconsistent models and images they receive from thei...

The transsexual dilemma: being a transsexual.

With few exceptions, a solution to any problem will bring new difficulties. These may or may not be worse than the original problem, and one must decide, not between problem and answer, but between degrees of difficulty. Is the new situation really going to be better than the last? This is undoubtedly the situation with the transsexual. It is undeniable that in the majority of cases the treated...

Self-castration in a transsexual.

Our Side of the Mirror: The (Re)-Construction of 1970s’ Masculinity in David Peace’s Red Riding

Copyright: © 2013 King M, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Abstract David Peace and the late Gordon Burn are two British novelists who have used a mixture of fact and fiction in their wor...