Miller Lite’s New “Man Up” Commercials

Advertising still loves to sell to men by playing on masculine stereotypes. Miller Lite has created a new set of “Man Up” commercials to get men to buy its beer by using male gender stereotypes in which both men and the attractive women they are supposed to be able to impress enforce masculinity with the [...]

College Lacrosse Team Stands Against Homophobia

// The Oneonta men’s lacrosse team marched two by two onto the field, sticks held with purpose for the final home game of the season. Beneath their helmets, the players flashed hard looks and cheeks smeared with eye black. Andrew McIntosh played lacrosse for Oneonta College. He said teammates accepted him when he announced he [...]

Cairo-Based Artist’s Exhibit Explores “Making a Man Out of Him”

Huda Lutfi, an Egyptian visual artist and cultural historian, who lives and works in Cairo explores gender politics and identity at the Townhouse Gallery in Cairo through March 17, 2010 in her show “Making a Man Out of Him.” She received her Ph.D. in Arab Muslim Cultural History in l983 from McGill University, Montreal, and [...]

Video: Masculinity in Disney Films

In 2007, Sanjay Newton, a 34 year-old filmmaker as an Inequality Project, produced a 7 minute film “Sexism, Strength and Dominance: Masculinity in Disney Films.” Watch it online. What do you think?

On Step Institute Announces Planning Event for University “Male Studies” Discipline

AMSA Webpage Editor’s note:  This is not an AMSA event.  Click on “More Information” below for questions related to this planning event. Leading scholars concerned about today’s men and boys will convene at Wagner College in Staten Island on April 7, 2010, to plan for a new academic discipline at the university level: Male Studies. [...]

Is Promise Keepers Making a Comeback?

J. Terry Todd, Associate Professor of American Religious Studies at Drew University and Director of Drew’s Center on Religion, Culture & Conflict, looks at the attempt to remake the Promise Keepers as witnessed by their July 31 – August 1, 2009 stadium rally at Folsom Field of the University of Colorado in Boulder, CO. Read [...]

Contact for the Humanites Affinity Group

For information about the AMSA Humanities in Men’s Studies Affinity Group, contact Ozzie Mayers.