Rethinking 'Healthy Masculinity' Training From a Queer Boys+ Perspective.
Contemporary discourses on feminism's role in Australian boys' lives focus on how feminism might guide strategies that train boys to resist negative or 'toxic' performances of masculinity and instead encourage them to strive for a 'healthy' or 'positive' masculinity. In this article, I question whet...
| Publicado en: | Australian Feminist Studies Vol. 39; no. 119/120; pp. 193 - 210 |
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