Published in NORMA: International Journal for Masculinity Studies (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Misconceptions about how masculinities are shaped, performed, and valued can hinder progress toward creating equal and safe social worlds. This article seeks to deepen understanding of how Dutch fr...

Volume 20, Issue 2 of NORMA

Medicine Man. Reconfigurations of Masculinity in times of increased Medicalization. Volume 20, Issue 1 of NORMA

This study examines how Imran Khan constructs his political masculinity in his 2019 and 2021 UNGA speeches, employing a rhetoric that intertwines Islamic morality, nationalist pride, and transnatio...

Social isolation of older men is a public health problem in many countries. Many initiatives are inspired by the Australian model of Men’s Shed to break the isolation through woodworking activities...

Previous studies have shown a sharp decline in fertility from the age of 40 for women and 45 for men. Around 50, men begin to consider both the physical and the social limits of having children. Ho...

Since the 1990s, fathers’ use of parental leave has become commonplace, normalised, and expected, especially in the Nordic countries, which were the first to introduce earmarked periods of paid lea...

Volume 19, Issue 4 of NORMA