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What women want: barriers to female entrepreneurship in the West Midlands

Lockyer, Joan; George, Sharon - In: International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship 4 (2012) 2, pp. 179-195

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the barriers that inhibit the development of female entrepreneurship in the West Midlands. This region is characterised by pronounced low levels of participation in higher education and entrepreneurship. With the support of funding from the...

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The “new masculinity”: Addiction treatment as a reconstruction of gender in Puerto Rican evangelist street ministries

Hansen, Helena - In: Social Science & Medicine 74 (2012) 11, pp. 1721-1728

redefined masculinity as a treatment for addiction. Industrial disinvestment and resulting unemployment and drug trade in urban … well as the promise, of evangelist masculinity as a treatment for addiction. In the course of building leadership among …

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‘A real man smells of tobacco smoke’—Chinese youth's interpretation of smoking imagery in film

Davey, Gareth; Zhao, Xiang - In: Social Science & Medicine 74 (2012) 10, pp. 1552-1559

Previous studies have associated youth's exposure to filmic images of smoking with real-life smoking acquisition; initial research in low- and middle-income countries confirms this relationship. The present study in Yunnan, southwest China sought answers to the following questions: How do young...

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“You feel like you can’t live anymore”: Suicide from the perspectives of Canadian men who experience depression

Oliffe, John L.; Ogrodniczuk, John S.; Bottorff, Joan L.; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 74 (2012) 4, pp. 506-514

Severe depression is a known risk factor for suicide, yet worldwide men’s suicide rates continue to outnumber reported rates of men’s depression. While acknowledging that the pathways to suicide are diverse, and being mindful of the complex challenges inherent to studying suicide, we...

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The “knucklehead” approach and what matters in terms of health for formerly incarcerated Latino men

Muñoz-Laboy, Miguel; Perry, Ashley; Bobet, Ilka; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 74 (2012) 11, pp. 1765-1773

In terms of the examination of the relationship between masculinity and health, there has been limited exploration of … their health and well-being and what conflicts exist between public health prevention messages and FILM masculinity. Our …

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Doing masculinity: gendered challenges to replacing burley tobacco in central Kentucky

Ferrell, Ann - In: Agriculture and Human Values 29 (2012) 2, pp. 137-149

reasons, but also because raising tobacco is commensurate with a locally valued way of doing masculinity. The focus is on … a particular masculinity? What does an understanding of farm work as a simultaneous doing of gender illuminate about the …

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Rural male suicide in Australia

Alston, Margaret - In: Social Science & Medicine 74 (2012) 4, pp. 515-522

The rate of suicide amongst Australia’s rural men is significantly higher than rural women, urban men or urban women. There are many explanations for this phenomenon including higher levels of social isolation, lower socio-economic circumstances and ready access to firearms. Another factor is...

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Suicide, social integration, and masculinity in the U.S. military

Braswell, Harold; Kushner, Howard I. - In: Social Science & Medicine 74 (2012) 4, pp. 530-536

Reports indicate that suicide in the U.S. military has increased significantly in recent years. This increase has been attributed to a number of factors, including more frequent deployments, more relaxed screening of recruits, combat trauma, economic difficulty amongst soldiers, and the...

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Gender, health and theory: Conceptualizing the issue, in local and world perspective

Connell, Raewyn - In: Social Science & Medicine 74 (2012) 11, pp. 1675-1683

Public policy documents on gender and health mostly rely on categorical understandings of gender that are now inadequate. Poststructuralist thought is an advance, but relational theories of gender, treating gender as a multidimensional structure operating in a complex network of institutions,...

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Understanding boys’: Thinking through boys, masculinity and suicide

Mac an Ghaill, Mairtin; Haywood, Chris - In: Social Science & Medicine 74 (2012) 4, pp. 482-489

these trends point to either ‘too much’ masculinity, such as an inability to express feelings and seek help, or ‘not enough …’ masculinity that results in isolation and rejection from significant others, such as peer groups. Using a discourse analysis of … England, this article questions the viability of using normative models of masculinity as an explanatory tool for explaining …

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