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How Blue Is Blue: Stereotyping In Contemporary Gay Fiction, Mark A. Dombrowski

University of Dayton Review

Consumers continue to demonstrate that homoeroticism is a primary objective of blue movies, novels, and magazines. Although the self-stimulating merits of titles such as Blueboy are obvious, their side effects may be less conspicuous. Stereotyping is one such potential by-product; it will be examined in relation to a body of popular gay fiction that reasonably sophisticated bookstores could be expected to stock.

Deadly Sexism Is An Election Issue For Me, Mel Feit

University of Dayton Review

I consider myself to be a progressive Democrat, but Paul Kirk, Democratic National Chairman, will probably throw me out of the Party if he ever hears my confession: I won't be voting for female candidates anymore simply because of their gender.

Breaking Masculine Stereotypes: The Theatre Of Peter Shaffer, Dennis A. Klein

University of Dayton Review

Peter Shaffer's reputation as a playwright rests heavily on those works that have at the core an intense, sometimes ambiguous, relationship between two men. His most famous plays in that realm are Amadeus, Equus, and The Royal Hunt of the Sun. The same pattern is true of his one-act plays The Private Ear and White Lies, The White Liars and White Liars, the last of which Shaffer calls the definitive version and is published in his Collected Plays. The five plays under consideration in this study are Five Finger Exercise, Black Comedy, The Private Ear, Amadeus, and …

From Lord And Master To Cuckold And Fop: Masculinity In Seventeenth-Century England, Micheal S. Kimmel

University of Dayton Review

That many men are today "confused" about what it means to be a "real man”:—that masculinity is in “crisis”:—has become a cultural commonplace, staring out at us from every magazine rack and television talk show in the country. American men are increasingly cast as bumping up against the limits of traditional concepts of masculinity, attempting to push beyond the rigid role prescriptions that constrain male behavior, and prevent men from more fully expressing intimacy and vulnerability. becoming more devoted and loving fathers, more sensitive lovers, and more compassionate friends to both women and other men.

On The Present Imbalance In Criticism: An Exercise In Consciousness-Raising, Stanley Renner

University of Dayton Review

Surprisingly little notice is yet being taken of what has steadily over recent years become a marked imbalance in literary criticism. One might have expected, after Eugene August's 1982 article in College English calling attention to the problem, a series of papers reflecting a growing awareness of what seems obvious and expressing concern for its problematical implications. But very few have appeared. The following observations, therefore, represent those I have been expecting to read in papers that, for some reason, have not been written. My thesis is that against a large and growing output of books, articles, courses, and conference …

Institutionalized Sexism Against Men, Frederick L. Peterson

University of Dayton Review

It will probably be at least another 50 years before the "gender health gap" is recognized as a national problem of significant priority. The fact that men are dying an average of eight years earlier than women does not seem to concern anyone except a few men's rights activists. The Surgeon General or the Secretary of Health and Human Services do not seem to be upset. Neither have I heard of anybody planning on running for office on the “gender health gap plank.” Oh well, maybe 50 years is being too optimistic. After all, we're only men (disposable). I believe …

The Connexion, Arthur Murray

University of Dayton Review

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Vytis, Volume 72, Issue 10 (December 1986), Knights Of Lithuania

Vytis: The Newsletter of the Knights of Lithuania

Newsletter of the Knights of Lithuania national organization (United States); digitized and made available with the permission of the organization. Content may be protected by copyright.

Block Talk (December 1986), University Of Dayton. Student Development

Block Talk

• Apartments and houses available for spring term
• Finals week study hours
• Newspaper and mail holds
• Holiday security tips
• Feature on John Britt, assistant to the director of campus ministry
• House decorating contest
• Events calendar

Intergrating The Psyche Of The American Male: Conflicting Ideals Of Manhood In Sam Shepard's True West , James D. Riemer

University of Dayton Review

True West, the third in Sam Shepard's series of family plays, focuses on two brothers, one a screenwriter and the other a wanderer and thief, who confront each other for the first time in five years. Initially diametrically opposed in appearance and behavior, the brothers shift roles and personalities as the play progresses. In an essay on Shepard's plays, Ross Wetzsteon remarks that the brothers are doing battle over the “turf of the soul” and that “the shifts of identity, the shifts of power between them, so confusing to the narrative mind, make perfect sense when regarded not as conflicts …

On Reading Kafka's "Metamorphosis" As A Masculine Narrative, Leonard L. Duroche

University of Dayton Review

A reader's first reaction to Franz Kafka's "Metamorphosis" ("Die Verwandlung," 1915) is often that it is a weird and crazy story and that anyone who wrote like that must have been somewhat less than "normal." Those who have been exposed to it and other Kafka writing, in schools or on the cocktail circuit, have learned (been taught) to soften that judgment somewhat and see Kafka's short story as illustrating "the modern experience," exemplifying "existentialism," or in more cynical moments have acknowledged familiarity with it and other examples of high culture as part of the packaging that is necessary in providing …

Language, Sex, Gender: Two Problems Of Control, David Matthew Rosen

University of Dayton Review

In the last twenty years, several important works have appeared showing the links between language and gender identity. These studies have dealt with a wide range of phenomena, from the use of abstraction to inflexion (voice up or down at the end of a sentence) to tag questions (" … don't you think?") to the body language that accompanies speech.

Most studies of language difference between men and women indicate that communication typical of most males (and therefore considered male-gendered) is characterized by "control" whereas that communication typical of most females (and therefore considered female-gendered) is characterized by "affiliation": ideas …

Men's Studies: Introducing A Special Issue, Eugene R. August

University of Dayton Review

This special issue of the University of Dayton Review appears at an auspicious moment in the development of men's studies. No longer are men's studies quite "the new man on campus" they used to be; rather, they are becoming a stimulating and accepted part of the academic scene.

Cover And Table Of Contents, University Of Dayton

University of Dayton Review

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The Uterus As Economic Device: A Lesson For Young American Men, James A. Kruse

University of Dayton Review

Literature and the media frequently imply that men are a powerful, independent class of autonomous leaders. The women's movement has attempted to thrust its members into this illusory class while maintaining significant status/preferential treatment for women. While society perceives women as being freed of restrictive roles to gain greater parity with men, we must also recognize that men's gender-role pigeonhole is as restrictive as at any time in history. The stereotype prevails: men are providers.

Men's Studies In The Netherlands And Their Search For A Scientific Basis, Nico L. W. Van Oosten

University of Dayton Review

The Dutch organization for men's studies is called Landelijke Werkgroep Mannenstudies, which can be translated as the National Society for Men's Studies. The LWM was formed during the international congress "Among men/Among women" held at the University of Amsterdam in the summer of 1983. LWM membership consists of graduates from and students in different fields of science. Most of them have done research or written papers on various aspects of men's studies.

Figures Of The Failed Breadwinner In Nineteenth-Century French Fiction, James T. Day

University of Dayton Review

If it is true, as noted critic Elaine Showalter has stated, that "feminist criticism has established gender as a fundamental category of literary analysis,'' then literary representations of male gender roles require precisely the kind of critical scrutiny that many scholars are at present rightfully devoting to literary portrayals of women. In response to urgent questions raised by feminist criticism and the women's movement in general, the new discipline of men's studies has begun articulating its province of inquiry, and literary representations of male gender roles fall within this province.

Revising Our Myths Of Masculinity, William G. Doty

University of Dayton Review

The ways in which perceptions of gender are shaped are direct reflections of the worldview and hence the ethos (system of values) of a particular culture. Worldview is seldom made explicit in terms of "do this" or "do that" but it is part of the common sense that undergirds the acceptable parameters of behaviors and ideals and that shapes the public languages and imagery of a culture. Worldviews provide the models of social expressions of values and aspirations when they foreground this or that type of figure: more or less militaristic, more or less self-centered, more masculine or more feminine, …

Real Men Don't, Or Anti-Male Bias In English, Eugene R. August

University of Dayton Review

Despite numerous studies of sex bias in language during the past fifteen years, only rarely has anti-male bias been examined. In part, this neglect occurs because many of these studies have been based upon assumptions which are questionable at best and which at worst exhibit their own form of sex bias. Whether explicitly or implicitly, many of these studies reduce human history to a tale of male oppressors and female victims or rebels. In this view of things, all societies become patriarchal societies, a familiar term used to suggest that for centuries males have conspired to exploit and demean females. …

Some Images And Reflections Of Fathers In The Popular Media: Fallacy, Fiction, Fantasy, Fact, Stephen D. Grubman-Black

University of Dayton Review

What are the images of fathers in the popular media? Certainly we have seen more "father involvement" in advertising products in magazines and on television; we have observed fathers in comic strips and on television. Have any of the projected images changed, and do these images reflect valid shifts in the images of fathers in our society? I have selected Fein's three historical views of fathering as a framework for this discussion. The traditional perspective is characterized by the aloof and distant father. The second perspective is the modern, which is concerned with child outcome variables of sex-role identity development, …

The Women In The Black Corduroy Pants, Et Al., Mel Feit

University of Dayton Review

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Language And Male Identity: Friends Or Enemies?, Frank S. Zepezauer

University of Dayton Review

Three girls giggled at the back of my English class when Duane finally spoke. Seventeen years old, a varsity halfback and black, he had responded after a bashful pause to the question: "What assertions do you find most important?" He replied, "It takes more to make a man than to be born male."

In Search Of Adam: A Genesis Of Manhood, Grant Venerable

University of Dayton Review

According to poet-mythologist Robert Bly, "the ancient rites of male initiation were complicated and subtle experiences … a continual spiral … " through four recurring seasons: 1) bonding with and separation from mother; 2) bonding with and separation from father; 3) discovery of the "male mother"; 4) the interior marriage with the Hidden Woman (the "Eve" presence within). Bly goes on to describe the first season-beginning with the instantaneous birth-bonding, recurring with later bonding episodes, and concluding with separation from mother.

Inequality And Psychic Violence Towards Men, Roy U. Schenk

University of Dayton Review

Women know they are morally superior to men! Men know women are morally superior to men! After all women are the peacemakers and men are the warmakers. Women are passive and men are aggressive. Women maintain higher moral standards while men's minds are in the gutter. Women are more nurturant and caring while men are busy making a buck. We all know that. so why bother to write about it?

I believe it is important to write about it because women, including most feminists, think and act as if this perceived moral superiority is innate, is natural to women, rather …

True Confessions Of The Male Kind, Francis Baumli

University of Dayton Review

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"Corporate Culture" Topic Of Ud Teleconference

News Releases

News release announces that a teleconference broadcast to the University of Dayton will address corporate culture and its role in a successful business.

Ud Holds 23rd Annual Christmas On Campus

News Releases

News release announces that the 23rd annual Christmas on Campus will include the "adoption" of more than 800 senior citizens and children.

Flyer News, Vol. 34, No. 20 (Nov. 24, 1986), University Of Dayton

Flyer News

Student-run newspaper of the University of Dayton

Researchers Honored

News Releases

News release announces that engineering researchers Dilip R. Ballal and Tzong H. Chen are recipients of the 1986 Wohlleben-Hochwalt Outstanding Professional Research Award.