Perverting Evolutionary Narratives of Heterosexual Masculinity: Or, Getting Rid of the Heterosexual Bug

Hegemonic Heterosexual Masculinity BLYE FRANK

Unsettled Scripts: Intimacy Narratives of Heterosexual Single Mothers

cultural scenarios with narratives of individuals in their specific social contexts and also their internal (intrapsychic) world of desires, fantasies and expectations (which I refer to as ‘personal scripts’). While the concept of ‘scripts’ does not offer a wider analysis of structural constraints on individuals, it is a helpful way of understanding the limitations on what is culturally availab...

Heterosexual Gender Relations and Masculinity in Fathers Who Smoke

The purpose of this research was to explore the role of masculinity and heterosexual gender relations in new and expectant fathers' explanations of their continued smoking. We conducted a secondary analysis of in-depth interviews with 20 fathers. Two themes were identified: (1) reconciling with partners to maintain a smoke-free family home; and (2) smoking to self-regulate emotions and maintain...

Masculinity in adolescent males' early romantic and sexual heterosexual relationships.

There is a need to understand better the complex interrelationship between the adoption of masculinity during adolescence and the development of early romantic and sexual relationships. The purpose of this study was to describe features of adolescent masculinity and how it is expressed in the contexts of early to middle adolescent males' romantic and sexual relationships. Thirty-three 14- to 16...

Getting rid of interventions.

According to James Woodward's influential interventionist account of causation, X is a cause of Y iff, roughly, there is a possible intervention on X that changes Y. Woodward requires that interventions be merely logically possible. I will argue for two claims against this modal character of interventions: First, merely logically possible interventions are dispensable for the semantic project o...