We create our masculine selves by self-reflection in which other people, predominantly our partners, peers, and friends, play a central part. Masculinity has two factors: strength and quality. Strength is determined by a person’s self-reflection: the effectiveness and effort to invest time in his search for cultural resources of masculinity, and his ability to employ conductive resources in his...

In the April 1967 issue of Cosmopolitanmagazine, sandwiched between such conventional women’s magazine fare as “ e Bachelor Girls of Japan” and “A Dog Speaks: Why a Girl Should Own a Pooch,” appeared a curious little essay entitled simply “ e Computer Girls.” e “computer girls,” as the article explained, were the female “computer programmers” who taught the dazzling new “miracle machines” calle...

Studies show that attractive women demonstrate stronger preferences for masculine men than relatively unattractive women do. Such condition-dependent preferences may occur because attractive women can more easily offset the costs associated with choosing a masculine partner, such as lack of commitment and less interest in parenting. Alternatively, if masculine men display negative characteristi...

The aim of this study was to establish normal reference values of anatomic and mechanical joint angles of the tibia in sheep at different age groups. Eighteen clinically healthy Santa Ines sheep were used. The animals were divided into three equal groups according to age: Group I - from six- to eight-months-old, Group II - 2-years-old, Group III - from three- to five-years-old. Anatomic medial ...

Men generally prefer feminine women's faces and voices over masculine women's faces and voices, and these cross-modal preferences are positively correlated. Men's preferences for female facial and vocal femininity have typically been investigated independently by presenting soundless still images separately from audio-only vocal recordings. For the first time ever, we presented men with short v...

Abstract This study investigated the link between individuals’ 2D:4D digit ratio (a biomarker associated with prenatal testosterone exposure) and their inclination to make masculine food choices. Furthermore, whether this potential association would be moderated by consumers’ levels of hunger (vs. satiation). Participants (N = 216; 50% female) made a set binary choices items pretested perceived...

Masculine sexual behavior is regulated by testosterone (T). However, T can be metabolized to form estrogens or other androgens, which then activate their own receptors. We used knockout mice lacking a functional estrogen receptor alpha (ER alpha) gene to test the hypothesis that, following aromatization, T acts via the ER alpha to activate normal masculine sexual behavior. After gonadectomy and...

Evidence from experimental studies of Spanish children's production of determiners reveals that they pay more attention to phonological cues present in nouns than to natural semantics when assigning gender to determiners (Pérez-Pereira, 1991). This experimental work also demonstrated that Spanish children are more likely to produce the correct determiner when given a noun with phonological cues...

Based on knowledge from traditional Arabic and Islamic herbal medicine, this study aims to examine the effects of extracts from Ferula assa-foetida L on male fertility and sexual functioning in rats and in man. Therefore, ethanol extract from seeds and 50% water-ethanol extracts from roots were prepared into so-called “Masculine” tablets and assessed for their safety and efficacy in enhancing m...

The article demonstrates management discourse without masculine subtexts. In two organizations in the Norwegian state administration management was talked about either as a truly gender neutral activity or as a “feminine” activity. Managers’ primary tasks were to motivate team members and help them develop their capacities, it was stated. Further, team management was described either by the use...