Do men need to vent their masculine energy Jacob Ostberg from Stockholm Business School explores how masculinity is experienced as an excessive energy to be spent that cannot be simply contained. Starting from Swedish family men, we venture into expressions of excessive masculinity in media.
References
Ostberg, J (2010) Thou shalt sport a banana in thy pocket: Gendered body size ideals in advertising and popular culture. Marketing Theory, 10(1), 45-73.
Thurnell-Read, T (2011) Off the leash and out of control: Masculinities and embodiment in Eastern European stag tourism. Sociology, 45(6), 977-991.
Apr 16 202635 mins