Men's Business: Masculinities Reflected

Men's Business: Masculinities Reflected

Vol 16 no 1, 1996


Guest edited by Noel Sanders and Kurt Brereton, this issue examines the male image in art, the gay scene, fathers and sons, men in their sheds and many other topics germane to gender, sexuality and identity. Exhibition and book reviews included as well.


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Symbolic Identities: Masculinity and the Motor Cycle

Author: Mr John Pigot, feature

Since 1927, the idea that the motor cycle is synonymous with assertive and unmediated masculinity has been enlarged and expanded through a broad range of visual, literal and cinematic imagery to the point where a machine which was once acclaimed as a means of transport has been transformed into a gendered cultural icon, an object of and for masculine display.



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