Abstract Abstract: This research examines the ManKind Project (MKP), a large community-based organization that offers peer-group support for changing traditional forms of masculinity and fostering personal development and healing. Analysis focused on reasons why men participated, their evaluation of their experiences in the organization, and the impact of participation on their relationships, emotions, self-development, identity, employment, and other aspects of their lives. Most men had positive...

Abstract Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to evaluate Pollack’s claims that boys experience a normative, forced, premature emotional separation from their mothers and develop disabling levels of emotional constriction due to the combined effects of this separation and a harsh, male socialization process…The implications of these findings for the revision of Pollack’s model, how clinicians and society view the emotional lives of boys, and future research on gender differences in attachment and...

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Abstract: Men live in an iron cage of struggle for success and fear of failure… Every man must slay the dragon of failure or be slain… The cost of failure is low self-esteem; the cost of success is dehumanization… structural realities and … liberating counter-ideologies.

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Box of conference papers, often with abstracts included with the listing, from numerous conferences such as:

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Abstract: Using an inductive approach, this study investigated paternal identity using fathers’ narratives meaningful experiences they have had or anticipate having with their child… The construct of ‘parenting voice’ emerged… reflecting degrees of ‘conjointness’ in a father’s or a mother’s parental identity…

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Paper discusses power dynamics between researcher and the researched especially when the researcher is a woman researching men about their construction of their masculine identities.

Scope and Contents a. Barton, E. R. Selected Parallels Between Mythopoetic Men’s Work/Men’s Support Groups and Feminists Theory. Abstract: This paper discusses the contemporary men’s movement and men’s emotional healing work Parallels are drawn between men’s work and the feminist theories of “standpoint” theory and “personal is political” theory. b. Byrd, M. L. In Their Own Words: Sources of Male Identity. Abstract: Purpose was to discover what dialogic frameworks shape the meaning of manhood. The author...

Scope and Contents a. Peters, F. Men, Women and Rights. This study had two specific purposes: The first was to determine the level of knowledge that educators in the four western provinces of Canada have regarding legal rights in the educational area. The second was to identify the attitudes and values that these educators had regarding rights in the educational area. b. Siann, G, Wilkerson, H, and Riley, S. New Men, Wild Men, and the Backlash. Abstract: This paper discusses the nature and the extent of the...

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a. Baldauf, G. R. Men’s Studies for Men Only. This paper discusses the challenges and opportunities for teaching a course on men’s studies to just men. Also see Men's Movement materials from Oakton Community College CMVF. b. Harris, W. G. Successful African-American Males (AAM) on a Predominately White University Campus. This paper presents findings on research to identify factors that influence the academic and social success of AAMs on a predominately white university campus.

Scope and Contents a. Bonadonna, R. Served This Soldier Through the Ethics of Male Identity in Some World War II Novels. This paper explores the belief that by a man joining the marines they would “make me a man” or would “show me how to be a man.” b. Carroll, B. E. Breasted and Bearded Manhood in Victorian America: The Androgynous Mediumship of John Shoebridge Williams. c. Combs, D. C. and Heger, H. K. A Gender Ethic Investigation of Relationship Closeness of the Father and the Experience of Grief. This paper...