An Analysis of Masculine Socialization and Male Sexual Anxiety
| dc.contributor.author | Philaretou, Andreas Georgiou | en |
| dc.contributor.committeechair | Allen, Katherine R. | en |
| dc.contributor.committeemember | Few-Demo, April L. | en |
| dc.contributor.committeemember | Hughes, Michael D. | en |
| dc.contributor.committeemember | Bryant, Clifton D. | en |
| dc.contributor.committeemember | Arditti, Joyce A. | en |
| dc.contributor.department | Human Development | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-03-14T20:20:07Z | en |
| dc.date.adate | 2001-12-11 | en |
| dc.date.available | 2014-03-14T20:20:07Z | en |
| dc.date.issued | 2001-11-16 | en |
| dc.date.rdate | 2002-12-11 | en |
| dc.date.sdate | 2001-12-10 | en |
| dc.description.abstract | This study uses autobiographical reflection to investigate the negative impact of essentialist masculine gender socialization on men's lives. In particular, I use personal recollective accounts both from my early childhood socialization-in the traditional Greek-Cypriot culture of the 1970s and 80s-and from my own introspections and analytical conceptualizations concerning intimate relationships in general. I analyze these accounts by using a feminist postmodern ideology of gender deconstruction and reconstruction. Men oftentimes fall victims of patriarchal masculine scripting by suppressing their needs for intimacy, connectedness, and self-disclosure, qualities traditionally devalued as feminine traits. Suppressing such needs exacerbates inadequacies in male intimacy with possible manifestations in the form of generalized non-clinical male sexual anxiety. Implications are also discussed in terms of the by-products of male sexual anxiety, such as non-clinical sexual addiction and male victimization. | en |
| dc.description.degree | Ph. D. | en |
| dc.identifier.other | etd-12102001-201705 | en |
| dc.identifier.sourceurl | http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-12102001-201705/ | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/30030 | en |
| dc.publisher | Virginia Tech | en |
| dc.relation.haspart | FiguresNew.pdf | en |
| dc.relation.haspart | Dissert1-5new.pdf | en |
| dc.rights | In Copyright | en |
| dc.rights.uri | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | en |
| dc.subject | essentialism | en |
| dc.subject | patriarchy | en |
| dc.subject | anxiety | en |
| dc.subject | abuse | en |
| dc.subject | deconstruction | en |
| dc.subject | masculinity | en |
| dc.subject | intimacy | en |
| dc.subject | addictions | en |
| dc.subject | socialization | en |
| dc.subject | narrative | en |
| dc.title | An Analysis of Masculine Socialization and Male Sexual Anxiety | en |
| dc.type | Dissertation | en |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Human Development | en |
| thesis.degree.grantor | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | en |
| thesis.degree.level | doctoral | en |
| thesis.degree.name | Ph. D. | en |