OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Men and Masculinities is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Pakistani Khwajasira Struggle for Livable Life: Towards Defecting Masculinities and Womanness as Loss	29
Fighting for Masculine Hegemony: Contestation between Alt-Right and White Nationalist Masculinities on Stormfront	15
Masculinities and Public Policies in Latin America	15
Marginalize or Valorize: A Two-Case Study of Parental Essentialism and Fathers’ Social Location	13
Book Review: Men’s Friendships as Feminist Politics?: Power, Intimacy, and Change	11
Hierarchies of Masculinity and Lad Culture on Campus: “Bad Guys”, “Good Guys”, and Complicit Men	10
Abjection, Masculinity, and Sacrifice: The Reek of Death in Game of Thrones	9
How to Be a Man Differently: The intersection of Gender and Disability in the Life Course of a Powerchair Athlete	9
Providing in a Pandemic: COVID-19, Masculinity, and Intimate Relationships in Uganda	8
Book Review: Male, Failed, Jailed: Masculinities and “Revolving-Door” Imprisonment in the UK	8
From Yeshiva Students to Breadwinners: Liminality and Concealment Among Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Men in Israel	8
A Dialectic of Vulnerability and Resilience: Nonresidential Fathers Living in Poverty in Israel	8
“Zero Emission, Zero Compromises”: An Intersectional, Qualitative Exploration of Masculinities in Tesla’s Consumer Stories	7
Unmanned? Military Masculinities in Filmic Representations of US Drone Operators	7
Decolonizing Care: Hegemonic Masculinity, Caring Masculinities, and the Material Configurations of Care	7
Transamorous Misogyny: Masculinity, Heterosexuality, and Cis Men’s Sexist Desires for Trans Women	6
Domestic Power, Public Fantasy, and Male Anxiety: The Rise of Matrilocal Husbands in Chinese Digital Media	6
Doing Respectable Heteromasculinities in Boys and Young Men’s Talk on Sexual Encounters	6
Boy, You Fight like a Woman … Representations of Defeated Enemies, Boys and Male Nudity in the Late Bronze Age Aegean Iconography and Their Role in the Expression of Masculinity	5
The Social Stigmatization of Stay-at-Home Fathers in Pakistan	5
Remaking the Myth of the ‘Trade Warrior’: Searching for South Korean Masculinity in the Philippines	5
Young Men and Feminism: Gendered Struggle and Sense-Making for Australian University Students	4
Changing Asian Economies and Divergent Impressions of Western Masculinity: China and the Philippines	4
Living with Violence: Men University Students Negotiate the Masculinity Mandate in Mexico	4
Why Sex Technology Will Not Fix the Incel Problem	4

Domesticating the Salaryman: Marriage Promotion, Hybrid Masculinity, and the Resignification of Reproduction in Japan	4
Queer Terrorists, Terrorist Queers: The Sexual Politics of Turkey’s War on Terror	3
Learning to Care: Men’s Parental Caregiving for Sons and Daughters in Peru	3
“I’m Trying to Be There for My Kids”: A Needs Analysis of Fathers Who Experience Health Inequities in Vancouver, Canada	3
Slippages in the Application of Hegemonic Masculinity: A Case Study of Incels	3
Red Pill Women: Heterosexual Fantasies in Misogynistic Spaces	3
Wu Masculinities, Traditional Men-Dog Relationships and the Defence of the Dog-Meat Festival in Modernizing Yulin China	3
Rethinking Men’s Grief: A Case Study of Bereaved Fathers’ Involvement in Lactation and Human Milk Donation After Infant Loss	3
Toward a “Freedom Life”: Notes on Transmasculine Placemaking in the “World-Class” City of New Delhi	2
Father-Child (Dis)connections: Expectations and Practices of Young Un(der)employed Fathers in Johannesburg	2
Caring Masculinities: Rethinking the Concept	2
The Limitations of Hashtag Feminist Activism on South African Twitter: A Case Study of #MenAreTrash and #WomenAreTrash	2
Book Review: Vulnerable Constitutions: Queerness, Disability, and the Remaking of American Manhood	2
From Deficient Masculinity to Relational Plenitude: Language and Ethics among Thirunangais in Southern India	2
“You are Married by the Woman”: Divergent Understandings of Men’s Support for Women’s Empowerment in Northwestern Tanzania	2
Cut From the Same Cloth? The Problem of Male Supremacy and Deradicalization	2
Daggy Dads and State Daddies: Theorising the Masculinities of Australian Men Political Leaders	2
From Hegemonic to Hybrid and Back? The Context-Adaptive Masculinity of Polish Male Migrants	2
To Alleviate Stigma: How Incels Negotiate Masculinity Online	2
“Barriers to Men’s Enrollment in the Feminized Space of College Sex Education Courses”	2
Masculinity for Sale: Shan Migrant Sex Worker Men in Thailand and Questions of Identity	2
Book Review: Appealing Because He is Appalling: Black Masculinities, Colonialism, and Erotic Racism	2
The Strength to Diet: If it Fits Your Macros Dieting as Masculine Body Work	2