Michael Kehler
Biographic Data
| ID | 230236 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Kehler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Kehler |
| SIGNATURE | KEHLER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Calgary |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1637-7040 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Preservice teachers disrupting contemporary patriarchal masculinities: Obstacles to social justice teaching and learning
Long pause: What Does Silence Say About Boys' Reflexivity
Silence is easily overlooked or dismissed as simply a gap in communication. However, silence is ripe with meaning. In this article, we explore the silences and hesitations in a group of high-school boys’ responses to questions about gender and consider their import to understanding men’s and boys’ reflexivity. We note that these silences are telling about resistance, unintelligibility, discomfort, and silencing. Significantly, we contrast these s…
Navigating allyship: Straight and Queer Male Athlete’s Accounts of Building Alliances
In this article, the authors explore the ways that allyship and queer-straight alliance-building are constructed by a group of men who have participated in a men’s health promotion and human rights project to promote inclusion in and through sport. Examining ten participants’ accounts, collected through online semi-structured interviews, we explore the benefits and challenges of alliance-building between privileged and marginalised group members …
School spaces, school places: Shifting masculinities during the Covid-19 pandemic
I don't think my torso is anything to write home about: Men's Reflexive Production of 'Authentic' Photos for Online Dating Platforms
This paper explores men’s use of dating apps with an emergent body image focus, addressing cisgender, heterosexual men’s feelings about dating app profile pictures. Drawing from interviews with 15 cisgender, heterosexual men residing in Australia about their use of dating applications including Tinder, Hinge, and Bumble, this paper examines how cisgender, heterosexual men construct their dating app profile pictures, and the decisions they make ab…
‘It’s nice to be appreciated’: Understanding heterosexual men’s engagements with sexting and sharing Dick Pics
This paper explores heterosexual men’s experiences of sexting with a primary focus on how, when and why men send sexually explicit photos to women. Previous research has focused either on gay and bisexual men’s experiences or considered sexting within a broader youth context. This research considers young men and their engagement with sexting practices and its relationship to how they view and understand their bodies as desirable and sexual. Draw…
The Problem of Boys' Literacy Underachievement: Raising Some Questions
Boys’ Bodies: Speaking the Unspoken
This book chapter is Closed Access. It was published in the book Boys' Bodies: Speaking the Unspoken [© Peter Lang] and further details of this book can be found at: http://www.peterlang.com
Problem with Boys' Education: Beyond the Backlash
Hallway Fears and High School Friendships: The complications of young men (re)negotiating heterosexualized identities
Drawing on a larger ethnographic study of four high school young men, this paper foregrounds high school male–male friendships as a context for examining how heterosexism and homophobia operate to limit and delimit the ways masculinities are constructed. I begin this article by first highlighting an inconsistency between recent school initiatives aimed at “helping boys” improve literacy scores and emerging safe school initiatives that recognize a…
Reading masculinities: Exploring the socially literate practices of high school young men
This paper explores recent Ontario policy directives aimed at improving literacy levels among boys in addition to the perspectives underlying these policies. By drawing on the school experiences of four high school young men, the authors examine how boys read and misread masculinities through socially literate practices. This paper argues that these kinds of reading practices routinely inform how boys think about social identities, literacy and s…
Boys’ Bodies: Speaking the Unspoken
This book chapter is Closed Access. It was published in the book Boys' Bodies: Speaking the Unspoken [© Peter Lang] and further details of this book can be found at: http://www.peterlang.com
Hallway Fears and High School Friendships: The complications of young men (re)negotiating heterosexualized identities
Drawing on a larger ethnographic study of four high school young men, this paper foregrounds high school male–male friendships as a context for examining how heterosexism and homophobia operate to limit and delimit the ways masculinities are constructed. I begin this article by first highlighting an inconsistency between recent school initiatives aimed at “helping boys” improve literacy scores and emerging safe school initiatives that recognize a…
I don't think my torso is anything to write home about: Men's Reflexive Production of 'Authentic' Photos for Online Dating Platforms
This paper explores men’s use of dating apps with an emergent body image focus, addressing cisgender, heterosexual men’s feelings about dating app profile pictures. Drawing from interviews with 15 cisgender, heterosexual men residing in Australia about their use of dating applications including Tinder, Hinge, and Bumble, this paper examines how cisgender, heterosexual men construct their dating app profile pictures, and the decisions they make ab…
Reading masculinities: Exploring the socially literate practices of high school young men
This paper explores recent Ontario policy directives aimed at improving literacy levels among boys in addition to the perspectives underlying these policies. By drawing on the school experiences of four high school young men, the authors examine how boys read and misread masculinities through socially literate practices. This paper argues that these kinds of reading practices routinely inform how boys think about social identities, literacy and s…
Long pause: What Does Silence Say About Boys' Reflexivity
Silence is easily overlooked or dismissed as simply a gap in communication. However, silence is ripe with meaning. In this article, we explore the silences and hesitations in a group of high-school boys’ responses to questions about gender and consider their import to understanding men’s and boys’ reflexivity. We note that these silences are telling about resistance, unintelligibility, discomfort, and silencing. Significantly, we contrast these s…
Reading masculinities: Exploring the socially literate practices of high school young men
This paper explores recent Ontario policy directives aimed at improving literacy levels among boys in addition to the perspectives underlying these policies. By drawing on the school experiences of four high school young men, the authors examine how boys read and misread masculinities through socially literate practices. This paper argues that these kinds of reading practices routinely inform how boys think about social identities, literacy and s…
Hallway Fears and High School Friendships: The complications of young men (re)negotiating heterosexualized identities
Drawing on a larger ethnographic study of four high school young men, this paper foregrounds high school male–male friendships as a context for examining how heterosexism and homophobia operate to limit and delimit the ways masculinities are constructed. I begin this article by first highlighting an inconsistency between recent school initiatives aimed at “helping boys” improve literacy scores and emerging safe school initiatives that recognize a…
Problem with Boys' Education: Beyond the Backlash
The Problem of Boys' Literacy Underachievement: Raising Some Questions
Boys’ Bodies: Speaking the Unspoken
This book chapter is Closed Access. It was published in the book Boys' Bodies: Speaking the Unspoken [© Peter Lang] and further details of this book can be found at: http://www.peterlang.com
‘It’s nice to be appreciated’: Understanding heterosexual men’s engagements with sexting and sharing Dick Pics
This paper explores heterosexual men’s experiences of sexting with a primary focus on how, when and why men send sexually explicit photos to women. Previous research has focused either on gay and bisexual men’s experiences or considered sexting within a broader youth context. This research considers young men and their engagement with sexting practices and its relationship to how they view and understand their bodies as desirable and sexual. Draw…
School spaces, school places: Shifting masculinities during the Covid-19 pandemic
I don't think my torso is anything to write home about: Men's Reflexive Production of 'Authentic' Photos for Online Dating Platforms
This paper explores men’s use of dating apps with an emergent body image focus, addressing cisgender, heterosexual men’s feelings about dating app profile pictures. Drawing from interviews with 15 cisgender, heterosexual men residing in Australia about their use of dating applications including Tinder, Hinge, and Bumble, this paper examines how cisgender, heterosexual men construct their dating app profile pictures, and the decisions they make ab…
Navigating allyship: Straight and Queer Male Athlete’s Accounts of Building Alliances
In this article, the authors explore the ways that allyship and queer-straight alliance-building are constructed by a group of men who have participated in a men’s health promotion and human rights project to promote inclusion in and through sport. Examining ten participants’ accounts, collected through online semi-structured interviews, we explore the benefits and challenges of alliance-building between privileged and marginalised group members …
Preservice teachers disrupting contemporary patriarchal masculinities: Obstacles to social justice teaching and learning
Long pause: What Does Silence Say About Boys' Reflexivity
Silence is easily overlooked or dismissed as simply a gap in communication. However, silence is ripe with meaning. In this article, we explore the silences and hesitations in a group of high-school boys’ responses to questions about gender and consider their import to understanding men’s and boys’ reflexivity. We note that these silences are telling about resistance, unintelligibility, discomfort, and silencing. Significantly, we contrast these s…
Gender Studies (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (5 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (4 works) · Masculinity (4 works) · Reflexivity (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works)