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Castration: An Abbreviated History of Western Manhood
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Castration: An Abbreviated History of Western Manhood

by Gary Taylor. 308 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Gary Taylor

Publisher:

   Routledge

Place of Publication:

  New York  

Publication Year:

  2000
Subjects:   Masculinity, Castration Anxiety, Men--Psychology
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books on: (Masculinity) OR (Castration Anxiety) OR (Men Psychology)  - 43841 results

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Castration: An Abbreviated History of Western Manhood
Book by Gary Taylor; Routledge, 2000
Subjects: Castration Anxiety, Masculinity, Men--Psychology
...to detect castration anxiety and castration symbolism everywhere...time or that place; castration anxiety and castration symbolism...choices. Few men relish castration. The notion of castration anxiety therefore seems, at...
2.
Growing Up Male: The Psychology of Masculinity
Book by B. Mark Schoenberg; Bergin & Garvey, 1993
Subjects: Masculinity, Men--Psychology
...0-89789-344-1 alk. paper 1. Masculinity Psychology 2. Men--Psychology...in itself explains why men and masculinity have received such a trashing in...personalize for the young any ideals of masculinity we may share. -- Patricia Sexton...
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We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity
Book by Bell Hooks; Routledge, 2004
Subjects: African American Men--Psychology, African American Men--Social Conditions, African American Men--Social Life And Customs, Masculinity--United States, Sex Role--United States, United States--Race Relations
...Preface about black men: dont believe the hype ix...Chapter 6 from, angry boys to angry men 85 Chapter 7 waiting for daddy...gets specific and the focus is on black men the news is even worse. Despite all the...
4.
Warriors and Wildmen: Men, Masculinity, and Gender
Book by Stephen Wicks; Bergin & Garvey, 1996
Subjects: Masculinity, Men--Psychology, Sex Role
...approach to the enigma of masculinity. The images of manhood...reflect the essence of masculinity and are difficult to...explore and explain female psychology, and this strand of the...into the realm of adult men. Absence of initiation...
5.
Hombres y Machos: Masculinity and Latino Culture
Book by Alfredo Mirandé; Westview Press, 1997
Subjects: Hispanic American Men--Psychology, Hispanic American Men--Social Life And Customs, Machismo--United States, Masculinity--United States, Sex Role--United States
...listened for centuries to the voices of men and the theories of development that their...impulsive, emotional, and passionate, Latino men, it seemed, were essentially more feminine...opted to include the BSRI to see how Latino men would respond, to examine internal differences...
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A Grammar of Black Masculinity: A Body of Science
Journal article by Arthur F. Saint-Aubin; The Journal of Men's Studies, Vol. 10, 2002
Subjects: African American men--Psychology and mental health, Masculinity--Social aspects, White supremacy movements--Influence
...including examinations of 900 men enrolled for the draft in...profile the physiology and the psychology of the average man, and when...doubt, there were European men of science, perhaps following...The Relations of Biology, Psychology, and Sociology," Popular Science...Lydston, F. C. (1906). Castration instead of lynching. Atlanta...
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Reconstructing Masculinity and Sexuality
Journal article by Andreas G. Philaretou, Katherine R. Allen; The Journal of Men's Studies, Vol. 9, 2001
Subjects: Masculinity (Psychology)--Social aspects, Men--Psychology and mental health, Sex role--Social aspects
...ideologies: A review of research instrumentation on men and masculinities. In R. F. Levant W. S. Pollack (Eds.), A new psychology of men (pp. 129-163). New York: Basic. Thompson, S. (1995). Going all the way: Teenage girls tales of sex, romance, and pregnancy...
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The Masculinity Crisis
Journal article by Ronald F. Levant; The Journal of Men's Studies, Vol. 5, 1997
Subjects: Masculinity--Social aspects, Men--Psychology and mental health, Self-esteem--Social aspects
...Studies, 5, 1-12. Levant, R. F. Kopecky, G. (1995/96). Masculinity reconstructed: Changing the rules of manhood New York...of the Society for the Psychological Study of Men and Masculinity, 1(2), 1996, 10-13. Address correspondence to the author...
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Sexuality, Masculinity, and Infertility in Egypt: Potent Troubles in the Marital and Medical Encounters
Journal article by Marcia C. Inhorn; The Journal of Men's Studies, Vol. 10, 2002
Subjects: African American men--Psychology and mental health, Egypt--Social aspects, Infertility--Causes of, Islam--Influence, Masculinity--Social aspects
...significantly less threatening to a mans gender identity and masculinity, for it implies that a man is a person to be envied by other...Infertile mens experiences of being unable to produce a child. Men and Masculinities, 2, 6-25. Word Health Organization...
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Mines, Minstrels, and Masculinity: Race, Class, Gender, and the Formation of the South African Working Class, 1870-1900
Journal article by Zine Magubane; The Journal of Men's Studies, Vol. 10, 2002
Subjects: African American men--Psychology and mental health, Diamond industry--Social aspects, Kimberley--History, Masculinity--Social aspects, Mining industry--History, Minstrels--History
...whom most of these insecurities about masculinity and money were projected and the cause...making it much more difficult for men of meager means to become involved...Centralization, although it did make a few men very wealthy in the short term, did...
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Men Who Spend Too Much
Magazine article by Quentin Letts; New Statesman, Vol. 129, August 28, 2000
Subjects: Men consumers--Analysis, Men--Psychology and mental health
Men who spend too much by Quentin Letts A new survey...Indies fast bowlers are fallible. Now the third thunderbolt: men are more profligate than women. A survey claims that, of...Lewis, a "leading consumer psychologist", has talked about men falling for "self-prescribed cash therapy" and argued that...
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Do Successful Sisters Intimidate Black Men?
Magazine article by Laura B. Randolph; Ebony, Vol. 52, September 1997
Subjects: African American men--Psychology and mental health, African American women--Conduct of life, Interpersonal relations--Psychological aspects, Success--Psychological aspects, Working women--Conduct of life
...secure because they dont hold titles. And I do think Black women have to be careful and supportive because African-American men have had a very rough time getting established and being accepted." Some relationship experts, like Dr. Larry Davis, associate professor of psychology at Washington University and author of Black and Single: Meeting and Choosing A Partner Whos Right For You, say that for...
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For Brothers Only: From Boys to Men to Menopause
Magazine article by Kevin Chappell; Ebony, Vol. 53, April 1998
Subjects: Men--Psychology and mental health, Midlife crisis--Health aspects
For Brothers Only: from boys to men to menopause by Kevin Chappell...shorter to make it to the finish line. While men have been known to kiss and tell, we only...for some, a new beginning for others. Men go through similar hormonal and emotional...
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What Men Can Learn from Women
Magazine article by Alistair Moffat; New Statesman, Vol. 129, April 24, 2000
Subjects: Biddulph, Steve--Addresses, essays, lectures, Manhood and Raising Boys (Book)--Authorship, Men--Psychology and mental health
What men can learn from women by Alistair Moffat...hard work is long gone. Alistair Moffat wants men to channel their energy more productively...and is an authority on the emotional lives of men. Or the lack of them. He will give a lecture...
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Masculinity, Men's Bodies and the Great War
Magazine article by Joanna Bourke; History Today, Vol. 46, February 1996
Subjects: Body image--Analysis, Men--Psychology and mental health, World War, 1914-1918--Psychological aspects
...revealed to be men. Much of the early work on masculinity focused on institutions such as public schools...many writers, `masculine is simply what men `are: it is what differentiates them from women. How men came to `be manly is only rarely regarded...
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THE BIG LINE-UP; Oddball 12 for C4 House -A Topless Model and Ex Nude Poser -Straight 'A' Student of Psychology A Gay Man Who Only Likes Straight Men -Person Who Hand-Reared Flock of Sheep -A Property Developer & a Samaritan
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), May 28, 2004
...Ex Nude Poser -Straight A Student of Psychology A Gay Man Who Only Likes Straight Men -Person Who Hand-Reared Flock of Sheep...include a wannabe topless model, a psychology student and a property developer. To...a gay man who only fancies straight men. Also in the mix are a former Samaritan...Yesterday a show source said: "The psychology student has four straight A-level As...
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Cerebral Cech Will Be Psyched Up for Anfield; A Keen Student of Psychology, the Chelsea Stopper Is Sure to Be 100 per Cent Focused on Keeping out Liverpool, Writes Ian Chadband
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), May 1, 2007
Subjects: Psychology--Study and teaching
...cerebral figure who fancies studying psychology at university, it would be interesting...psychologist would tell Rafa Benitezs men, after their fabled win over Cechs Chelsea...wondering whether Cechs fascination with psychology has contributed to his mental strength...language, law, sociology, politics and psychology. It was this last subject, he reckoned...
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Chemical Castration for Child Abusers; Voluntary Drug Treatment for Sex Offenders
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), August 26, 2008
Subjects: University of Newcastle upon Tyne
...Australian government rejected calls to introduce chemical castration on the grounds that there was no proof it worked. Some experts...inhibitors - which are commonly prescribed for depression, anxiety, and obsessive compulsive disorder. They act by increasing...
4.
The Soft War against Masculinity
Newspaper article by Paul Craig Roberts; The Washington Times, October 18, 2001
...women feel. Women have been taught to feel victimized by men to such an extent that all expressions of masculinity are offensive to feminists. Men who have caught on to this dynamic minimize their vulnerability to charges and destruction of career...
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Welcome to the War Zone of Masculinity . . . a Grotesque Human Laboratory Where the Traditional Male Has Mutated into a Terrifying, Violent Parody of the Themselves; STARTING TODAY: A DISTURBING INVESTIGATION INTO THE WAY SOCIETY IS TURNING ITS BACK ON MEN . . . AND THE CHILLING IMPLICATIONS FOR US ALL
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), March 4, 1996
Welcome to the War Zone of Masculinity . . . a Grotesque Human Laboratory Where the Traditional...led to a `crisis of masculinity. Women are deciding that men are largely dispensible and men, especially young males, are realising they are not wanted...
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Hysteria
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...stress. Women are affected twice as frequently as men. Symptoms, which are largely symbolic and which relieve the patients anxiety, include limb paralysis, blindness, or convulsive seizures. The specific physical disorder usually does not correspond...
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Eating Disorders
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
EATING DISORDERS in psychology, disorders in eating patterns that comprise four categories: anorexia nervosa, bulimia, rumination disorder, and pica. Anorexia...These disorders generally afflict women particularly in adolescence and young adulthood and are much less common among men. Some researchers believe that anorexia and bulimia are caused by chemical imbalances in the brain; one study has linked...
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Tolman, Edward Chace
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...California, Berkeley, where he taught psychology (1918 54). His approach to human behavior involved a synthesis of Gestalt psychology and behaviorism, focusing on an entire, goal-directed action, including both muscular responses and the cognitive processes...first to selectively breed rats for high and low maze-solving abilities, Tolman wrote Purposive Behavior in Animals and Men (1932, repr. 1967), and Drives Toward War (1942). ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used...
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Intelligence
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Bibliography See R. J. Sternberg and R. K. Wagner, ed., Practical Intelligence (1986); R. Fancher, The Intelligence Men: Makers of the I.Q. Controversy (1987); P. Chapman, Lewis M. Terman, Applied Psychology, and the Intelligence Testing Movement, 1880 1930 (1988). ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press...
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Lessing, Doris
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...catastrophe. Distinguished for its energy and intelligence, her work is principally concerned with the lives of women their psychology, sexuality, politics, work, relationship to men and to their children, and their change of vision as they age. In her later books she has mainly focused on efforts by individuals...
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