The perils of being a nice guy: Contextual variation in five young women's constructions of acceptable hegemonic and alternative masculinities

Men and Masculinities

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 255-278

  Talbot, Kirsten ^a   Quayle, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

contextual variation; emphasized femininity; hegemonic masculinity; ideal; romance; women's constructions of masculinity; work

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650239537     PISSN: 1097184X     EISSN: 15526828     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1097184X09350408     Document Type: Article

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