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Bromance:Male Friendship, Love and Sport
No full textThis book provides the first detailed account of the bromance among heterosexual men. Using one year of ethnography with one sport team, we show that the bromance exists as an elevated form of friendship that is significantly more emotional, and in which young, straight men engage in a great deal of physical tactility and emotional disclosure. We explain the emergence of the bromance as a consequence of a decreasing cultural fear of men had of being seen as gay. We show that many young men today live in a culture of acceptance towards homosexuality, which permits men to partake in bromantic relationships without cultural reprisal. We find that the bromance permits men to talk about emotions, including fear and anxiety, the sharing of secrets, and other forms of emotional labor. Whilst speaking of deep emotional intimacy, men have also shown that bromances afford them a great deal of physical touch, including non-sexual kisses, cuddling, and comfort in mutual nudity. This comfort can even extend in some circumstances to threesomes or making-out with other men as a form of banter.Socially, the bromance accommodates an increasingly late entry for young men into the marriage market and child-rearing, too. Our research even shows that half of men find their bromantic relationship as rewarding, or more rewarding, than their heterosexual romances. <br/
A realist case study inquiry of English primary school physical activity initiatives
No full textConcern that children are not engaging in enough physical activity (PA) to bring about health benefits is a crisis globally. This paper aims to examine primary school-based PA initiatives from within an English context. A qualitative inquiry was adopted and underpinned by the socio-ecological model. The study was presented through a realist case study of three selected primary schools to reveal a collection of context-mechanism-outcome statements across five levels of the socio-ecological model (individual, interpersonal, institutional, community and policy). The findings highlighted a multi-layered interaction of PA within the school setting as well as the school’s own relationships with external influences. Three key components emerged from the research findings; these included the (1) teacher’s unintentional facilitation of simple PA in classroom settings, (2) innovative uses of community networks as an additional resource to schools and (3) the uncovering of a complexity of external influences from home, community and policies on school-based initiatives.</p
Theodore Dreiser's Literary Criticism: A View from the Theodore Dreiser Edition
Get PDFTheodore Dreiser published over fifty items of literary criticism between 1900 and 1945 on a wide variety of subjects, while additional discussion of literary matters is scattered through his correspondence, memoirs, unpublished speeches, and cultural and philosophical essays. Hitherto this work has proved useful piecemeal, in its illumination of Dreiser’s fiction, while a few outstanding pieces have served to define Dreiser’s version of realism or literary naturalism. This essay takes the literary criticism seriously as a body of work in itself, sketching out some categories and topics, and providing detailed historical contexts for several items, which reveal under-appreciated nuances and engagements in even better-known pieces such as “True Art speaks Plainly” and “Life, Art and America.” The essay sees coherence across the diverse foci of Dreiser’s literary criticism via the concept of the “occasions of literary criticism”, by which is meant the historical and cultural contexts into which he was writing. It charts the roots of Dreiser’s literary criticism in his need to respond to charges of “literary immorality,” its growth through his very particular response to censorship, and its maturity in his suggestion, in a speech given as part of the peace conference in Paris in 1938, of an American literary tradition dedicated to social justice, taking in Mark Twain and H. D. Thoreau as well as the expected cohort of realists and naturalists. The essay concludes by relating these contexts and preoccupations to the history and practice of the Theodore Dreiser Edition.<br/
Three cheers for Access to Work partnership: two cheers for Two Ticks and one question about a university-wide self-disclosure scheme
No full textThe essay explores our experience working within the Access to Work Scheme, the Two Ticks Scheme, and proposes that academics with disabilities might explain their own expectations for “reasonable adjustments” as required by the Equality Act of 2010
