"He changed masculinity in the twentieth century.
This is hardly the first to attempt to redefine masculinity in the media age.
The cult of the uniform also bespeaks a wounded empire's need to reassert its masculinity in the wake of 9/11.
Granite-faced and baggy-eyed, his mouth set in a tight line, Mr. Lindon's Simon epitomizes a solid, stoic Gallic masculinity in the mold of Jean Gabin.
"Men We Reaped" loops around, again and again, to Ms. Ward's observations about race and masculinity in the South, about men "pinioned beneath poverty and history and racism".
It is, however, an indication of the increasing pressures men are under to define their masculinity in the modern world".
They were literary, mostly, exploring themes of masculinity in the modern world, and they did not sell well.
For the final episode of his Channel 4 series exploring masculinity in the 21st century, Perry spent time interviewing the men who control the UK's financial services industry.
The title of the album alone is enough to launch a dozen thinkpieces about identity politics and black masculinity in the UK.
Melvin Donalson, a professor of film at California State University, Los Angeles, and the author of "Masculinity in the Interracial Buddy Film," is more ambivalent about the genre's politics.
Kele Okereke is at the Being a Man festival, which explores masculinity in the 21st century, with an in-conversation and acoustic set at the Royal Festival Hall on 26 November.
