Em meio às diversas mudanças que vêm ocorrendo na relação entre gênero e profissão, a presença do homem atuando na educação e cuidado de crianças em contextos coletivos, particularmente de crianças de 0 a 3 anos de idade, suscita debates que fazem aflorar o senso comum e desafiam a construção do conhecimento dessa realidade. Ainda em número reduzido, a presença do homem como professor de creche vem sendo preconizada como parte das políticas de promoção de igualdade de oportunidade entre homens e mulheres, do movimento de profissionalização da educação infantil e das tentativas de promover uma educação pautada na diversidade, étnica e de gênero, de figuras de referência para as crianças. O presente estudo tem como objetivo investigar de que maneira um homem se constitui professor de creche, nas relações com suas colegas, com a direção e com as crianças e suas famílias. A construção do corpus da pesquisa, ancorada no referencial teórico-metodológico da Rede de Significações, foi feita por meio de: (1) visitas e observações, com registros, em caderno de campo, das práticas e relações estabelecidas pelo professor com as crianças, com as famílias, com suas colegas e a direção; (2) entrevistas semi-estruturadas, gravadas em áudio e transcritas na íntegra, com os atores envolvidos neste processo (professor, professoras, direção e famílias). A análise do material foi feita no sentido de identificar o masculino na relação com as colegas de trabalho, com a direção, com as famílias e com as crianças. Análises dos registros de observação e das entrevistas trazem a experiência de inserção do homem como professor de creche de maneira positiva e recomendável. Dentre os argumentos apresentados acerca das possibilidades que se abrem ante a presença do homem como professor, a figura masculina é representada fortemente pela imagem do pai, justificada especialmente para as crianças que não convivem com esta figura em suas famílias. Em relação à questão do cuidado com o corpo, a decisão da direção, acatada pela equipe, foi de afastar o educador dessas atividades com as meninas, o que evitou a emergência de conflitos e resultou em instrumento para tranquilizar as famílias. Como consequência desta inserção, a possibilidade de interações do professor com as famílias, mesmo que de maneira indireta por meio dos relatos e manifestações das crianças, parece resultar em uma (re)significação da presença de um homem professor na creche, que caminha do estranhamento inicial ao estabelecimento de uma relação de confiança com este profissional. / Amid the many changes that have occurred in the relationship between gender and occupation, the presence of men working in the education and care of children within collective contexts, particularly with children between 0-3 years of age, gives rise to debates that bring forth the common sense, and challenges the existing knowledge within such reality. Although few in number, the presence of men as daycare teachers has been recommended as part of policies to foster equal opportunity between men and women, the movement to professionalize the early childhood education and attempts to promote an education based in the diversity, both ethnic and gender, of role models for children. This study aims to investigate how a man becomes a daycare teacher, his relationship with colleagues, with his superiors and with the children and their families. The construction of the corpus of research, rooted in the network of meanings theoretical- methodological perspective, was made by way of: (1) visits and observations, with records in a field book of practices and relationship established by the teacher with the children, with families, with their colleagues and school management, (2) semi-structured interviews, recorded on tape and transcribed in its entirety, with the players involved in this process (teacher, colleagues, school management and families). The analysis was performed to identify the male in the relationship with coworkers, with management, with families and children. Analysis of the observation records and interviews showed that the experience of integrating a man as a daycare teacher is positive and recommended. Among the arguments presented with regards to new possibilities opened up by the presence of a man as a teacher, the male figure is strongly represented by the father image, justified especially for children who do not have a father figure in their families. As far as the childrens hygiene and use of toilet, the decision of the school management, embraced by the team, was to remove the male teacher from the girls bathroom activities, which prevented the emergence of conflicts and became a tool to reassure the childrens families. As a result of this integration, the possibility of teachers interacting with the families, even if indirectly by way of reports and childrens manifestation, seems to bring about a (re)signification of the presence of a man teacher at the daycare, which moves away from the initial strangeness to the establishment of a trusted relationship with this professional.

This thesis examines theoretical paradigms within men and masculinities studies (MMS), introducing a new materialist lens through the work of Elizabeth Grosz and Brian Massumi. Two affective dimensions of MMS are explored through the application of this new materialist lens: the affect of wonder and flat affect. These two concepts can be understood as expressions of Spinoza’s two types of affects; joyful affects, or those affects that increase a body’s capacity for movement, and sad affects, or those affects that decrease a body’s capacity for movement. The affect of wonder, a joyful affect, is theorized in conversation with antiviolence and therapeutic masculinity initiatives. Flat affect, a sad affect, is theorized in conversation with Canadian men’s suicide rates. This thesis argues that dominant forms of masculinity orient subjects away from wonder and towards an unlivable state characterized by flat affect. Men and masculinities studies theory lacks applied engagement with affect, and this thesis contributes to efforts to address this lack. / Graduate

<p>In this dissertation, I analyze the Brony community to better understand reconstituted forms of masculinity. Specifically, I focus on the following questions: What does it mean when men incorporate what has traditionally been viewed as stigmatized or feminine into their gender presentations? How do these forms of masculinity represent a challenge to gender politics and how do they reinforce gender inequality? How do women navigate spaces defined by reconstituted forms of masculinity? In what ways do women within these spaces both challenge and maintain power relations? I address these questions through an analysis of interviews with 43 men and women who are fans of <i>My Little Pony </i>and ethnographic observations at four <i>My Little Pony </i>fan conventions. In doing so, this dissertation nuances and extends the literature on reconstituted forms of masculinity, including hybrid masculinities. </p>

Influenced by post-Lacanian psychoanalytic feminist theory and Judith Butler’s theories of gender performativity, this project examines three fictional brooding male writers from three separate periods of twentieth-century Ireland and Britain and their performances of authenticity, authority, and exceptionalism as artist figures. By tracing a sociohistorical arc and conducting close literary analyses, this project argues that the myth of white male artistic genius is derived from the power and privilege of a cult of individuality that can be used to excuse and justify harmful behaviour and that comes at the exclusion and expense of those outside this highly specific version of hegemonic masculinity. James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger, and Sarah Kane’s Blasted undermine the myth of male artistic genius by exposing the artificial and theatrical nature of the notion of “authenticity” and the posture of being countercultural when one is part of a dominating elite.

Magister Artium - MA / The purpose of this study is to explore how “queerness” is both represented and suppressed in select South African fiction. The study will investigate to what extent a post-colonial form of education reinforces the colonial and apartheid traditions of South African normative masculinities in same-sex, educational environments. These aspects will be explored and investigated in John Van de Ruit‟s Spud: A wickedly funny novel (2005), Spud: The madness continues… (2007), Spud: Learning to Fly (2010), and will be complemented with an investigation of the recent South African film, Inxeba (2017). The series of novels and films demonstrate how the contestation between queerness and traditional masculinity threatens heteronormativity and how various forms of violence try to enforce a dominant South African masculinity.

Esta investigación se enfoca en las representaciones paternas en el discurso narrativo de spots publicitarios de Samsung, específicamente, de Conéctate con lo que más amás a través de un Smart TV y Feliz Día del Padre. Se selecciona que la publicidad está acogiendo las concepciones de la paternidad que están emergiendo en la sociedad a partir de los cambios en la masculinidad del hombre. Aquella irrupción de la nueva figura paterna se debe a condicionamientos internos y externos de la persona, cuyas descripciones nos hace reconocer que existen varias representaciones de la paternidad. El objetivo general de esta investigación es analizar el cambio de las representaciones paternas según las distintas masculinidades en el discurso publicitario de spots de la marca Samsung. Para ello, se buscará alcanzar por medio de la metodología cualitativa para comprender el fenómeno de la representación paterna a través de entrevistas semiestructuradas como técnica de campo, de 15 a 20 padres de familia de 25 a 39 años, pertenecientes al nivel socioconómico B/C de los diferentes distritos de Lima Centro, utilizando como herramienta una guía adaptada de la matriz de Construcción y validación del Cuestionario de Sensibilidad Paterna. / This research focuses on paternal representations in the narrative discourse of Samsung commercials, specifically, of Connect with what you love most through a Smart TV and Happy Father's Day. It is selected that advertising is welcoming the conceptions of fatherhood that are emerging in society from the changes in men's masculinity. That irruption of the new father figure is due to internal and external conditioning of the person, whose descriptions make us recognize that there are several representations of fatherhood. The general objective of this research is to analyze the change in paternal representations according to the different masculinities in the advertising discourse of Samsung brand spots. For this, it will be sought to reach through qualitative methodology to understand the phenomenon of paternal representation through semi-structured interviews as a field technique, from 15 to 20 parents from 25 to 39 years old, belonging to the socio-economic level B / C of the different districts of Central Lima, using as a tool an adapted guide from the Construction and validation matrix of the Paternal Sensitivity Questionnaire.

Scholars confirm that a huge proportion of black South African men are not participating in their children's upbringing, as a result, children face various challenges that impede their wellbeing. This study is of the view that there is still a need for further investigations to explore the effects of fatherlessness on children's wellbeing and to gain new perspectives on father absence within the context of black societies in South Africa. With that in mind, this study aimed to explore the impact of fatherlessness on the psychosocial wellbeing of young black South African men. The objectives of this study included investigating the following: (1) young men's experiences of growing up without their biological fathers; (2) the psychosocial effects of growing up without a biological father on young black men; (3) the ways in which fatherlessness shapes the development of a gendered (masculine) identity among young black men; and (4) to understand the ways in which fatherlessness shapes young men's participation in cultural practices that facilitate their transition to manhood (e.g. ulwaluko). A qualitative approach research approach was adopted for this study. Semi-structured interviews (face to face) were used for data collection, and both purposive sampling and snowball sampling methods were used to recruit participants for this study. The interviews were conducted with twenty-four (24) young black men (participants) who shared their experiences of growing up without the presence of their biological fathers. These participants resided in Langa township (Western Cape). The interviews were conducted during the third wave of Covid-19, so all the protocols to safeguard the spread of Covid-19 were observed. The data was analysed using thematic analysis. It further drew on the psychosocial developmental theory by Erik Erickson (1963) as a lens through which it reflects on young men's developmental processes and the ways in which such development is shaped by the absence of biological fathers. The findings suggest that many of the participants' conceptions of the roles of fathers were in line with the traditional views of fathers as financial providers, protectors, and disciplinarians. The results of this study also gave insight into challenges faced by young black men who grew up without their biological fathers. These challenges were related to their cultural identity, which then affected their capacity to build intimate relationships, affected them when they were undergoing ulwaluko, and affected their constructions of masculinity. Fatherlessness was also shown to have a negative impact on the education and psychosocial wellbeing of the young black men in the study.

[pt] O objetivo desse estudo é analisar a contribuição do projeto papo cabeça para o cuidado da saúde sexuale reprodutiva, na perspectiva dos adolescentes do sexo masculino atendidos pelo referido projeto. O estudo consiste em uma investigação documental que possui como instrumento de coleta de dados o formulário de pesquisa do projeto projeto papo cabeça, denominado perfil. No universo de 342 formulários, foi analisada uma amostra de 50 formulários respondidos por adolescentes do sexo masculino, estudantes da rede municipal de ensino da Sétima Coordenadoria Regional de Educação do Rio de Janeiro, compreendidos entre as faixas de 10 aos 19 anos e que participaram do projeto papo cabeça no período de 2008 a 2010. As categorias de análise envolvidas no processo de investigação foram: a caracterização dos adolescentes do sexo masculino; o relacionamento com os pais e/ou responsáveis no que se refere ao diálogo sobre o sexo e sexualidade; o cuidado com a saúde sexual e reprodutiva e o relacionamento dos adolescentes com o projeto papo cabeça. Os resultados da pesquisa apontaram que o projeto papo cabeça constitui uma ferramenta para a aproximação dos adolescentes do sexo masculino com a saúde sexual e reprodutiva. Através da participação no projeto, os adolescentes afirmaram que passaram a obter conhecimentos e a adotar cuidados relativos ás doenças sexualmente transmissíveis e métodos contraceptivos. Na perspectiva dos mesmos, o projeto papo cabeça representa uma alternativa para a conscientização do cuidado com a saúde sexual e reprodutiva na medida em que encontraram pouca abertura no ambiente familiar para o debate sobre a temática. / [en] The purpose of this study is to analyze the contribution of the project papo cabeça for the care of sexual and reproductive health, from the perpective of male adolescent who were seved by this project. The study consists of a documentary investigation and a research form entitled perfil was used to collect data. From 342 forms, we analyzed 50 forms perfilfilled by male adolescents, municipal students of 7th regional education coordination of Rio de Janeiro, in the 10 to 19 age group and who participated in the papo cabeça. Project in the period of 2008 and 2010. These are the categories analyses involved inthe investigation process: characterization of male adolescents; the relationships with parentes and guardians about the sex and sexuality dialog; the sexual and reproductive health care and the adolescents relationship with the papo cabeça project. The survey results show that the papo cabeça project contitues a tool for approaching the males adolescents to the sexual and reproductive health. Through participation in the project, the adolescents said the came to gain konwlegde and take care related to sexually transmitted diseases and contraceptive methods. From the perspective of male adolescent, the papo cabeça project represents an alternative to the sexual and reproductive health care consciousness, the extent that they have little chancesin the family enviromnentto discussabout the subject.

This study examines the ways in which men who relate sexually to children, identified in the press as paedophiles, are represented in four leading newspapers in the Republic of Ireland in the period from 2003-2005. Utilising a qualitative research methodology namely critical discourse analysis, a social constructionist approach and informed by post-structural perspectives, this research examines the ways in which the masculinities of the man represented as `the paedophile¿ are constructed. This research demonstrates how the normative is reinforced through the delegitimation of the masculinities of these men. The discursive regimes and cultural scenarios drawn upon in representations of `the paedophile¿ reflect degrees of deviation from hegemonic masculinity in an always already `deviant¿ group of men. Inactive heterosexuality and homosexuality are not hegemonic masculine practices, and the masculinity of supposedly, celibate clergymen and homosexual men is discursively subordinated. A consideration of the material dimensions of these discourses, illustrates how the media representation of men who relate sexually to children, confirms the normative contours of society and strategically excludes hegemonic masculinity and the wider society from association with adult male sexual interaction with children.

I denna uppsats granskas militariserad säkerhet i relation till kvinnors osäkerhet. Uppsatsen genomsyras av ett genusperspektiv och berör skadliga sociala normer såsom våldsuttryck knutna till maskulinitetsideal, nationens betydelse, maskuliniseringen av den säkerhetspolitiska arenan och hur den Amerikanska armén använde sig av feminisering som förhörsmetod i det skandalomsusade Irakiska fängelset Abu Ghraib. Uppsatsen finner att militariserad säkerhet utgör ett hot mot kvinnors säkerhet i och med den könsmaktsordning som upprätthålls och förstärks i samband med konflikt och militär närvaro och som resulterar i specifikt våld riktat mot kvinnor och feminiserade grupper.