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"In Soldier Snapshots, Jay Mechling reveals how vernacular photos by men in the military reveal layers of meaning that require us to incorporate perspectives drawn from the fields of psychoanalysis, masculinity and gender studies, cultural anthropology, and American Studies to interpret them. As with his other books-on topics such as the Boy Scouts, wildlife, and children's folklore-Mechling seeks an understanding of American culture by subjecting particular bits of evidence to scrutiny to see how the part can reveal the whole. The 84 photographs in this book are part of a collection of vintage snapshots collected by Mechling from online auctions and vintage photography shows. He presents and discusses them using themes such as play, male friendship, and the male body"--
Male friendship. --- Photographic criticism. --- Soldiers --- Recreation.
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German literature --- Littérature allemande --- Male friendship --- Littérature allemande.
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer a masterpiece of American literature, was written by Mark Twain in 1876. The story has elements of humour, satire and social criticism. Due to the simple style of writing, with a lot of storytelling and humor, the novel became children and adults' favourite.
Adventure stories. --- Male friendship --- Humorous stories. --- Runaway children
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A powerful and engrossing tale of extremes and extremists, Women in Love (1920), follows the passionate relationships of Gudrun and Ursula Brangwen with their respective lovers, the ominous Gerald Crich and the charismatic but fragile Rupert Birkin. The abortive alliance between the two men and the couples' affairs are played out against the derangements of industrialism and the need to find new ways of living and better ways of dying. The introduction explores the impacton Lawrence of the violence of the First World War. - ;`New eyes were opened in her soul. She saw a strange creature from an
Coal mines and mining --- Women --- Male friendship --- Sisters --- Midlands (England)
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Male friendship. --- Masculinity in sports --- Bromance (Male friendship) --- Friendship between men --- Friendship in men --- Men's friendship --- Friendship --- Sports
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"Boys are emotionally illiterate and don't want intimate friendships." In this empirically grounded challenge to our stereotypes about boys and men, Niobe Way reveals the intense intimacy among teenage boys especially during early and middle adolescence. Boys not only share their deepest secrets and feelings with their closest male friends, they claim that without them they would go "wacko." Yet as boys become men, they become distrustful, lose these friendships, and feel isolated and alone.Drawing from hundreds of interviews conducted throughout adolescence with black, Latino, white, and Asian American boys, Deep Secrets reveals the ways in which we have been telling ourselves a false story about boys, friendships, and human nature. Boys' descriptions of their male friendships sound more like "something out of Love Story than Lord of the Flies." Yet in late adolescence, boys feel they have to "man up" by becoming stoic and independent. Vulnerable emotions and intimate friendships are for girls and gay men. "No homo" becomes their mantra.These findings are alarming, given what we know about links between friendships and health, and even longevity. Rather than a "boy crisis," Way argues that boys are experiencing a "crisis of connection" because they live in a culture where human needs and capacities are given a sex (female) and a sexuality (gay), and thus discouraged for those who are neither. Way argues that the solution lies with exposing the inaccuracies of our gender stereotypes and fostering these critical relationships and fundamental human skills.
Male friendship. --- Emotions in adolescence. --- Emotions in children. --- Child psychology --- Adolescent psychology --- Friendship between men --- Friendship in men --- Mens' friendship --- Friendship --- Bromance (Male friendship) --- Men's friendship
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Some semi-public, exclusive male settings, most noticeably in the military, encourage the production of intimacy and desire. Yet whereas in most instances this desire is displaced through humor and aggressive gestures, it becomes acknowledged and outright declared once associated with sites of heroic death. In his provocative study of interrelations between friendship in everyday life and national sentiments in Israel, the author follows selected stories of friendship ranging over early childhood, school, the workplace, and some unique war experiences. He explores the symbolism of friendship in rituals for the fallen soldiers, the commemoration of Prime Minister Yzhak Rabin, and the national infatuation with recovering bodies of missing soldiers. He concludes that the Israeli case offers an extreme instance of a much broader cultural phenomenon: declaring the friendship for the dead epitomizes the political “blood pact” between men, taking precedence over the traditional blood ties of kinship and heterosexual unions. The book underscores nationalism as a homosocial-based emotion of commemorative desire.
Men --- Male friendship --- Nationalism --- Psychology. --- Bromance (Male friendship) --- Friendship between men --- Friendship in men --- Men's friendship --- Friendship --- Human males --- Human beings --- Males --- Effeminacy --- Masculinity
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Male friendship --- Social classes --- Quakers --- England --- Angleterre --- Anglii︠a︡ --- Inghilterra --- Engeland --- Inglaterra --- Anglija --- England and Wales
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In war films, the portrayal of deep friendships between men is commonplace. Given the sexually anxious nature of the American imagination, such bonds are often interpreted as carrying a homoerotic subtext. In Armed Forces , Robert Eberwein argues that an expanded conception of masculinity and sexuality is necessary in order to understand more fully the intricacy of these intense and emotional human relationships. Drawing on a range of examples from silent films such as What Price Glory and Wings to sound era works like The Deer Hunter, Platoon, Three Kings, and Pearl Harbor , he shows how close readings of war films, particularly in relation to their cultural contexts, demonstrate that depictions of heterosexual love, including those in romantic triangles, actually help to define and clarify the nonsexual nature of male love. The book also explores the problematic aspects of masculinity and sexuality when threatened by wounds, as in The Best Years of Our Lives, and considers the complex and persistent analogy between weapons and the male body, as in Full Metal Jacket and Saving Private Ryan .
Masculinity in motion pictures. --- Male friendship in motion pictures. --- War films --- Motion pictures --- History and criticism.
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