The Latin virtus literally means “manliness” (vir = man) and, by extension, the positive qualities that a man should have. During transition from to French English, “virtue” lost its gender specificity, but retained reference qualities. Thus, Enlightenment period, separate standards of virtue had emerged for women and men. Suzanne Collins disrupts this gendered dichotomy in her Hunger Games tri...

OBJECTIVES There are high rates of fatherhood and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among young incarcerated men. Here we focus on a sample of men incarcerated in a Scottish Young Offender Institution, analysing their accounts of their contraceptive use. Those who report low or no use of contraception are compared with those who report high use. METHODS Semi-structured interviews with 40...

In the given article, author offers an interpretation of work titled Lacedaimonion Politeia, written by ancient political philosopher Xenophon Athens. Judging from Xenophon’s sober and open-minded attitude to regime he researches, focuses on central issue treatise, namely, upbringing a virtuous or good citizen. This became cornerstone Sparta’s success as polis, provided it with fame unique enti...

Tobacco smoking became an important marker of Hungarian national identity during the nineteenth century. this national symbol ultimately had an economic origin: Hungarian tobacco producers resisted the tobacco monopoly of the Habsburg central government, and led an ultimately successful consumer boycott of Austrian products. Tobacco nationalism, however, became a common theme in Hungarian popul...

The paper examines hyper-masculinity in West African war literature. Masculinity, hegemonic masculinity, and are all recurrent themes Social Sciences other fields of study but not so much Literature. disparity between the history Africa, few literary works on conflicts dearth studies Africa’s literature underscore this study. Elma Shaw’s Redemption Road is one very novels Liberia’s civil that s...