ideologies which bolster traditional displays of gender performance. Although gender norms are changing ( Anderson 2014 ), given the history of race, gender, and ability in the United States it is important to study the intersection of identity and the
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Gamed by the System
Exploring Black Male Youths’ Motivation to Participate in Sports
Deborwah Faulk, Robert A. Bennett III, and James L. Moore III
Stephanie Russo
marginalized femininity that speaks to the experience of teenage girls struggling to find their place in a world that seems to both reward and punish them for their femininity. Taking on Natalie Dormer's performance of Boleyn in The Tudors as the definitive
Chloe Krystyna Garcia and Ayesha Vemuri
how girls and young women use YouTube as a mode of self-expression and gender performance, only a paucity of literature analyzes this platform to understand how young women communicate about rape culture. Douglas Kellner and Gooyong Kim observe, “There
Minority Report
Perceptions and Realities of Black Men in Heterosexual Porn
Darryl L. Jones II
earn between $500 and $600 per scene, and that “there's no pay differential depending on the sex act. Generally male performances receive a fixed amount per scene or day.” Men who have garnered a positive reputation may be able to earn between $800 and
In Journal of Bodies, Sexualities, and Masculinities
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- 01 Mar 2020
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- Research Article
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- 60–79
The Doll “InbeTween”
Online Doll Videos and the Intertextuality of Tween Girl Culture
Jessica E. Johnston
also been known to collect and play with these dolls. While the practice of playing with dolls past childhood is not new, recording and uploading these play performances to YouTube raise new considerations for scholars of girls’ media studies in
Attitude or Age
Girlhood in Renaissance England
Reina Green
and, therefore, with social class. In the last section of this chapter, Higginbotham discusses female children as consumers of and participants in English drama, citing the royal performance of Robert White’s Cupid’s Banishment (1617) by the students
My Words, My Literacy
Tracking of and Teaching through the On-Field Language Practices of Australian Indigenous Boys
David Caldwell, Nayia Cominos, and Katie Gloede
related to the educational performance and literacy practices of boys. In their seminal Australian study, Nola Alloway and Pam Gilbert (1997) demonstrated that boys consistently underachieved in formal, standardized literacy tasks compared with girls of
Ambivalent Sexualities in a Transnational Context
Romanian and Bulgarian Migrant Male Sex Workers in Berlin
Victor Trofimov
contradictory for me to speculate about their “true” sexuality. More importantly, however, the very distinction between the authentic and “fake” performances of sexuality seems problematic to me, because it rests upon an understanding that there can be only one
In Journal of Bodies, Sexualities, and Masculinities
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 64–83
A Literacy Landscape Unresolved
Beyond the Boy Crisis and into Superhero Fiction
Michael Kehler and Jacob Cassidy
that the “reductionist comparative measures of gender performance have re-ignited constructions of boys as victims … and supported a re-engagement in conservative or recuperative masculinity politics” (2010: 2). The subtext for much of the response in
Tehmina Pirzada
athletic actions such as flying, running, and kickboxing. Her performance is further complicated by her rejection of the hypersexualization that is mostly imposed on Western female superheroes like “big breasts and unrealistically accentuated bodies