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Maximizing Masculinity: A Textual Analysis of Maxim Magazine

This study examines the story that Maxim tells about masculinity, with particular focus on the type of humor in the magazine and its function; the way the magazine echoes embodied male-male social interaction, particularly “male-bonding”; and how the magazine pits “real” women against the Maxim fantasy women.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UMASS/oai:scholarworks.umass.edu:theses-1087
Date01 January 2007
CreatorsWisneski, Kirsten
PublisherScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
Source SetsUniversity of Massachusetts, Amherst
Detected LanguageEnglish
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SourceMasters Theses 1911 - February 2014

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