The poll results suggest boys hear two ways to be masculine, says researcher Sharon Lamb, Ed.D., distinguished professor of mental  health at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, who presented the findings Sunday at the American Psychological Association’s annual meeting in San Diego.

“One was the superhero image, created as someone who shows their masculinity through power over other people, through exploiting women, showing their wealth, and through sarcasm and superiority,” she says.

The other is the slacker, ”the pot-smoking smelly guy who hates school,” she says….

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The Call for Proposals for the  21st Annual Conference on African American Culture and Experiences hosed by the African American Studies Program of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, October 14-16, 2010, has been extended until August 31, 2010

The theme of the Conference is: EXPLORING BLACK MASCULINITIES ACROSS MULTIPLE LANDSCAPES: A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE

In the spirit of the theme, participants are invited to share their scholarly, literary, and/or artistic expressions in any one or more of the following formats: Individual Paper, Poster, and Panels.

Topics may include, but are not limited to the following:

• Theorized black masculinities
• Multi-racial/multi-ethnic black masculinities
• Black masculinities across the Global Diaspora
• Comic & Fictional black masculinities
• Queer, Feminist, and/or Feminized Black masculinities
• Black masculinities and politics
• Black masculinities and the Public Sphere
• Popular Culture and black masculinities
• Black masculinity and Education
• Historical elements of black masculinity
• Black masculinity and performance
• Black masculinity and religion/spirituality
• Black men and families/relationships
• Black masculinity and music

Papers will be considered for inclusion in the new Journal of Black Masculinity.

Send proposed abstracts (100 words) in Word or RTF to afs@uncg.edu no later than August 31, 2010. Panel proposals are highly encouraged. Student panels are welcomed. Send inquiries to AFS@uncg.edu. For more information and registration, visit www.uncg.edu/afs.

Become a member or renew your membership for the American Men’s Studies Association (AMSA) now

Registration is available now for 2011 membership. AMSA’s annual membership runs from January 1 through December 31st of each year.

Regular membership includes:

• An electronic or print subscription to the Journal of Men’s Studies, including online access to all previous JMS issues and articles (print is an additional $15);
• Discounted registration to AMSA meetings;
• Free membership to specialized affinity groups; and
• Much, much MORE!

To Join or Renew Online click here.

Whitney Harris has co-edited with Ronald T. Furguson, the new book What’s Up with the Brothers? It is an examination of African-American masculinities in our times as seen through the scholarly efforts of African-American thinkers. This book goes beyond old paths and shifts the paradigm to ask questions that challenge the conventional wisdom about the African-American male experience. Few stones are left unturned as the book covers topics ranging from family, art, employment, sexuality and masculinity as they relate to contemporary African-American males.

Whitney Harris, Ph.D., is Executive Director of the Diversity and Multiculturalism office for the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system. Ronald T. Ferguson, Ph.D., is a sociology professor at Ridgewater College, Wilmar, MN. For more information click here.

Harry Brod has co-edited with Rabbi Shawn Israel Zevit, BROTHER KEEPERS: New Perspectives on Jewish Masculinity. The book is an international collection of new essays on Jewish men by academics and activists, rabbis and secularists, men and women, on personal experience and congregational life, gendered bodies and Jewish minds, poetry and prayer, literature and film, and more. Simultaneously particular and universal, all engagingly illuminate how masculinities and Judaisms engage each other in gendered Jewishness.

Harry Brod (Ph.D.)’s books include A Mensch Among Men: Explorations in Jewish Masculinity, The Making of Masculinities: The New Men’s Studies, Theorizing Masculinities, Children of the Holocaust, and White Men Challenging Racism: 35 Personal Stories. He is Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at the University of Northern Iowa. Rabbi Shawn Israel Zevit  is a co-director of the Davennen (prayer) Leader’s Training Institute, and a faculty member of the ALEPH Spiritual Direction program. His book Offerings of the Heart: Jewish Values-Based Approaches to Money in Community was published in 2005. For more information on Brother Keepers, click here.

Gar Kellom has co-edited with Miles Groth, Engaging College Men: Discovering What Works and Why. It is a ground-breaking collection of essays by mentors of college men and high school boys on what works to increase their engagement as citizens and participants in the common good. Sponsored by the Lilly Endowment, Engaging College Men presents a variety of programs at fourteen colleges and universities, as well as select high schools and reports on their differing ways of guiding men to vocational choices and a sense of purpose in life. As enrollments of men in college decline, this book is essential reading for college services administrators, teachers, and counselors who are committed to involving males in academic life and service to the community.

Gar Kellom, PhD, served as Vice President of Saint Mary’s University, Carroll College and Saint John’s University for 30 years. At Saint John’s, he founded the first men’s center on a liberal arts college campus and The Center for Men’s Leadership and Service has hosted the annual conference on the college male for seven years, organized student-volunteer programs in local schools, and offers international service and study trips to Trinidad/Tobago and India/Nepal. Miles Groth, PhD, is professor of Psychology at Wagner College, New York and a psychoanalyst in private practice since 1977. He is the author of three books among other writings. For more information Engaging College Men, click here.

Download the complete call describing specifications (pdf).

Editorial:
Stephen C. Finley, Editorial: African Americans and Mormonism as a Case for the Consideration of Race, Class, Sexuality, and Gender in the Study of Religion (pp. 51-53)

Articles:

Roie Thomas, Inspire, Expire: Masculinity, Mortality and Meaning in Tim Winton’s Breath (pp. 54-65)

Robert J. Myles, Dandy Discipleship: A Queering of Mark’s Male Disciples(pp. 66-81)

Paul M. Collins, Constructing Masculinity: De Utero Patris (from the Womb of the Father) (pp. 82-96)

Book Reviews:

Nathan Hitchcock, Review of Eric Magnuson, Changing Men, Transforming Culture: Inside the Men’s Movement (pp. 97-99)

Katharina von Kellenbach, Review of Kenneth J. Doka, Terry L. Martin, Grieving Beyond Gender: Understanding the Ways Men and Women Mourn (pp. 100-102)

Björn Krondorfer, Review of Sven Glawion, Elahe Haschemi Yekani, and Jana Husmann-Kastein (eds.), Erlöser: Figurationen männlicher Hegemonie and Susanne Lanwerd, and Márcia Elisa Moser (eds.), Frau–Gender–Queer: Gendertheoretische Ansätze in der Religionswissenschaft (pp. 103-107)

Claire Clark, Review of Trysh Travis, The Language of the Heart: A Cultural History of the Recovery Movement from Alcoholics Anonymous to Oprah Winfrey (pp. 108-110)

Philip Culbertson, Review of William Ming Liu, Derek Kenji Iwamoto, and Mark H. Chae (eds.), Culturally Responsive Counseling with Asian American Men (pp. 111-113)

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• 10% of men experienced symptoms of the surveyed mental health and addiction issues, compared to 11% of women. (Other statistics show that 4 of 5 suicides are male.)
• Men are 1.5 times less likely than women to turn to psychiatric services.
• Women are twice as likely to consult a psychologist.
• Women are 2.5 times more likely to turn to a general practitioner.

Read the entire story, “The Strong, Silent Type: Is masculinity bad for men’s mental health?” by Dr. John Ogrodniczuk and Dr. John Oliffe, in the Summer 2010 edition of CrossCurrents: The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health here.

This multi-disciplinary and multi-sectored international conference will bring together many world-renowned researchers in the field of studies on men and masculinities. It will provide a broad forum for the promotion of links between all those interested in the study of men and masculinities, researchers and intervention practitioners, men and women, from both developing and industrialized countries.

It is in Quebec City that the core of the Masculinitiés and Société team is based, which recently kick-started an international collaboration aimed at setting up a network of researchers on men and masculinities from 10 countries that will be attending the conference. This conference will in many ways serve to crystallize these collaborations that are currently underway. In addition, Quebec City is a place where European roots are brought to life within a North American context, and is among the top three tourist destinations in North America.

The conference shall be structured around three main axes:

1. Theories and studies that are geared towards men’s issues;
2. Public policies that impact the health and well-being of boys and men;
3. Practices concerning the health and well-being of males.

The official languages for the conference will be French and English. Proposals should be a 350-word summary of the communication. The submission procedure can be found on the link below. The deadline for proposals is September 15, 2010 with a reply date of October 31, 2010.

All information is available on the website of the research team, Masculinitiés and Société.