Older Men's Blueprint for 'Being a Man'
Dados Bibliográficos
| AUTOR(ES) | |
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| AFILIAÇÃO(ÕES) | Department of Sociology and Anthropology, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA, USA, Department of Sociology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA |
| ANO | 2016 |
| TIPO | Artigo |
| PERIÓDICO | Men and Masculinities |
| ISSN | 1097-184X |
| E-ISSN | 1552-6828 |
| EDITORA | SAGE Publications Inc. |
| DOI | 10.1177/1097184x15606949 |
| CITAÇÕES | 7 |
| ADICIONADO EM | 2025-08-18 |
| MD5 |
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Resumo
Does the cultural blueprint for 'being a man' direct older men into patterns of conduct and emotions similar to younger men? In the absence of cultural guidelines for aging as a man, this theoretically grounded article discusses the masculinity standards that are likely to influence how older men go about their lives. Framed by Brannon's mid-1970s conceptualization of masculinity as an ideology, we reexamined existing narrative and interview-based research within ninety-eight prior studies to identify the masculinities voiced by older men. The narratives mirrored Brannon's four-dimension model of the cultural guidelines for being a man. Masculinity matters, and without unique guidelines for being an older man, men live by and struggle with traditional masculinities that have influenced them across their life course.