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Global Media Monitoring Project 2025: A Global Gender Analysis in the Media

The 2025 edition of the Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP)—the world's largest and longest-running longitudinal study on gender equality in the media—took place this Tuesday. Coordinated every five years by WACC Global, the initiative involved thousands of volunteers across more than 120

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About Gender - Unforeseen future: gender, sexuality, politics. Historical perspectives and critical views on the present

A new online issue of the AG About Gender, International Journal of Gender Studies entitled ‘Unforeseen future: gender, sexuality, politics is available. Historical perspectives and critical views on the present’ by Prof. Mariella Poppa and Prof. Michela Mariotto. The editorial reflects on the

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The Discursive Construction of Contemporary Family Types

A new online issue of degenere - Journal of Literary, Postcolonial and Gender Studies entitled "The discurisive Construction of Contemporary Family Types" by Prof. Giuseppe Balirano, Jai Mackenzie and Angela Zottola is available. The tenth issue focuses on exploring the social norms, structures and

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Breaking the binary mold: Understanding social representations of nonbinary gender identities among the LGBTQIA+ Italian population.

Rosati, F., Lorusso, M. M., Albanesi, C., Baiocco, R., Pistella, J., & Compare, C. (2024) To comprehend nonbinary identity, it is necessary to incorporate new and more inclusive social representations (SRs). Transnormativity, cisnormativity, and genderism may characterize lesbian, gay, bisexual,

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Enculturating Men, Cultivating Masculinity

by Sam de BoisePages 57-62 | Published online: 16 Apr 2024Very few terms are as fiercely fought over and so readily used but so causally underdeveloped as that of ‘culture’. The concept has a range of different interpretations but can be broadly divided between aesthetic and anthropological uses.

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‘We’re respectful boys … we’re not misogynistic!’: analysing defensive, contradictory and changing performances of masculinity within young men’s in-person and digitally mediated homosocial spaces

by Fiona O’Rourke and Craig HaslopPublished online: 25 Apr 2024This paper situates contemporary manospheric culture within archaic forms of masculine identity formation foundational to patriarchal political orders and fascism. What happens when 21st century emergent masculinity is also what Deleuze

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