Strategic Silence: College Men and Hegemonic Masculinity in Contraceptive Decision Making

Hegemonic Heterosexual Masculinity BLYE FRANK

Hegemonic masculinity, structural violence, and health inequalities

There is persuasive evidence that the reduction of health inequalities can only be achieved by addressing their fundamental causes, as opposed to the diseases through which they are expressed at any given time, or the immediate precursors of those diseases (Phelan et al 2004). This explains both the persistence of health inequalities over time and the failure of policies which only target their...

Strategic financial decision making in comprehensive public universities

Experimental results and theoretical analysis confirms that financial strategic decisions due to the effect of the policy and organizational behavior is very important. The aim of this paper was to study financial strategic making decision and decision-making processes at University of Tehran. Data was collected through qualitative research methods. The population of the study was all the exper...

Hegemonic masculinity: combining theory and practice in gender interventions

The concept of hegemonic masculinity has been used in gender studies since the early-1980s to explain men's power over women. Stressing the legitimating power of consent (rather than crude physical or political power to ensure submission), it has been used to explain men's health behaviours and the use of violence. Gender activists and others seeking to change men's relations with women have mo...

Strategic Decision Making

This paper introduces a methodology for strategic intervention in collective aeclsion making. The methodology is based on (1) a decomposition of the problem into a few main controversial issues, (2) systematic interviews of subject area specialists to obtain a specification of the decision setting, consisting of a list of stakeholders with their capabilities, positions, and salience on each of ...