Masculinity in the 21st Century
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Actor John Wayne stands on the back of a carriage with a gun, as actor Verna Hillie looks on, in a still from director Robert N Bradbury's 1934 film, The Star Packer.
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Actor John Wayne stands on the back of a carriage with a gun, as actor Verna Hillie looks on, in a still from director Robert N Bradbury's 1934 film, The Star Packer.
In a recent Washington Post article, writer Laura Sessions Stepp asks, "What Does It Mean to Be Manly?" Hollywood heroes such as John Wayne and Charlton Heston used to send strong clues about what it meant to be a man. Today, however, masculinity is not so easily defined.
Laura Sessions Stepp, writer, the Washington Post
Chris Wilson, deputy editor, Maxim
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