Constructions of masculinity and their influence on men's well-being: a theory of gender and health.

By W. Courtenay. Social Science & Medicine (1967), 2000

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Health, Pharmacy

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“Standing out from the herd”: men renegotiating masculinity in relation to their experience of illness (2007, background): “ognized (Courtenay, 2000; Sabo & Gordon, 1995) but has rarely been incorporated”
“Bad Girls Rule”: An Interdisciplinary Feminist Commentary on the Report of the APA Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls (2009, background): “…differently than girls’ and women’s since men’s objectification may be combined with reward structures and masculine ideals that are disproportionately harmful or deadly (e.g., 100% injury rates in the National Football League, deaths in the military; Courtenay, 2000a, 2000b; Sabo & Gordon, 1995)?”
Gender and Attitudes about Mental Health Help Seeking: Results from National Data (2016, background): “For example, Courtenay (2000) argued that other men often perceive individuals who neglect their health and safety as highly masculine.”
Pathways to Gender-equitable Men (2014, background): “…socialized, how men’s roles are socially constructed (in constant interaction with women’s roles), how these roles and power dynamics change over the lifecycle and in different social contexts, and how they shape men’s actions and practices (Aboim 2009; Connell 1995; Courtenay 2000; Walker 2005).”
Supermarket consumers and gender differences relating to their perceived importance levels of store characteristics (2011, background): “Gender scholars favour a social constructionist approach to understanding and explaining gender (Courtenay, 2000; Fox and Murray, 2000; Leaper, 2000; Poggio, 2006).”
Ten Years of Psychological Research on Men and Masculinity in the United States: Dominant Methodological Trends (2006, background): “Theoretical/conceptual studies were those that had as their purpose advancing new theories or critically reviewing existing ones (e.g., Courtenay, 2000a, 2000b ).”
Masculinity and perceived normative health behaviors as predictors of men's health behaviors. (2007, background): “, 1992), and that men’s health practices can function to situate them in the masculine arena (Courtenay, 2001).”
Alcohol consumption and masculine identity among young men (2007, background): “Recent studies of masculinity and social behaviour suggest that health-related behaviours such as alcohol consumption may be an important resource in the social construction of a masculine identity (Connell, 1987, 1995; Courtenay, 2000).”
Behavioral immune system linked to responses to the threat of COVID-19 (2020, neutral): “Alternatively, some of the factors may be due to sociocultural norms reflecting femininity and masculinity (Courtenay, 2000).”