Full throttle: are motorcyclists as risk-taking as we think? by Cassidy Wiley, Taylor G. Hill

“…When conceptualized as part of one’s social identity, motorcycling tends to be associated with an unfavourable image or stereotype, wherein motorcyclists’ personalities are characterized as rebellious, prone to risk-taking behaviour, and masculine (regardless of the motorcyclist’s gender). …”
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From Androgynous to Hybrid Cybernetic Bodies: Salvation or More Subjugation? by Muzaffer Derya Nazlıpınar Subaşı

“…However, Virginia Woolf, one of the prominent literary figures of the twentieth century, persistently tries to challenge this assumption that all people fall into one of the two distinct gender categories, masculine or feminine, established on biological sex traits. …”
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Gothic Fault-Lines in Anne Brontë’s Social Fiction: The Case of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) by Isabelle Hervouet

“…Recent scholarship has concerned itself with this split in discourse which suggests that Brontë does not challenge the conventional idea that discursive authority is masculine, making it therefore difficult to read her novel as feminist. …”
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A conceptual replication of an implicit test of grammatical gender effects on inanimate concepts by Devyani Mahajan, Frank H. Durgin

“…He reported that words for inanimate concepts of masculine grammatical gender were rated as higher in potency than words for the same concepts that had feminine grammatical gender. …”
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Les femmes américaines et la guerre du Vietnam : mise en place et utilisation d’un processus de mimétisme by Alexandra Boudet-Brugal

“…They are not to belong to this sphere; it is to remain masculine, a men’s world. The Vietnam War (1964-1973) is no exception to the rule. …”
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Queering the Queer by Tracey Sibisi, Charlene van der Walt

“…The pervasive systemic nature of heteropatriarchy finds expression in the insistence on masculine bodies being placed in positions of authority and the exclusive recognition of relationships that conform to heteronormative standards. …”
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Empowering women on screen: exploring the influence of female protagonists on contemporary culture and gendered enjoyment in film by Fokiya Akhtar, Azmat Rasul

“…Interestingly, agentic (masculine-identified) participants were more likely to enjoy male-led films than feminine (communal-identified) participants were to enjoy female-led counterparts. …”
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Les dissonances de l’alpinisme féminin dans le métier de guide de montagne by Rozenn Martinoia

“…Cet article s’intéresse au rôle ambivalent de la clientèle féminine dans la construction de l’identité professionnelle et sexuée des guides de montagne masculins et sa validation par les pairs. Au sein d’un groupe professionnel normé par un mythe de virilité, la clientèle féminine peut en effet envoyer des signaux dissonants : d’un côté, elle permet de produire des signes attendus de masculinité, de l’autre, elle peut symboliser une féminisation des compétences professionnelles ; ce qui, dans la hiérarchie du genre, est stigmatisant. …”
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Genre et discours métaphoriques sur la traduction by Lori Chamberlain

“…This analysis, written during the emergence of feminist translation studies across the Atlantic, challenges a masculine and sexist conception of translation and creativity written about in terms of domination, power, gender and violence. …”
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Protéger et guérir : la mission du gouvernement et des associations d’aide aux détenues en Angleterre entre 1856 et 1914 by Alice Bonzom

“…Mary Carpenter, a Victorian prison reformer, asserted that women prisoners were a threat to society, even more so than their masculine counterparts. In Victorian and Edwardian England, life after release from prison was fraught with hurdles, especially for women. …”
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Anthropometric Indicators to Determine the Obesity and its Relations with the Cardiometabolic Risk by Raúl Cedeño Morales, Maricel Castellanos González, Mikhail Benet Rodríguez, Luis Mass Sosa, Carlos Mora Hernández, Jorge Carlos Parada Arias

“…<strong><br />Results:</strong> it was evidenced a light increment of total cholesterol in individuals of the masculine sex at expense of HDL, without modifications in the rest of the variables. …”
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Against all odds: women's motivation to become STEM entrepreneurs in Sri Lanka by Arosha Adikaram, Ruwaiha Razik

“…Purpose – This paper aims to explore the motivations behind women in a developing South Asian country – Sri Lanka – to embark on entrepreneurship in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields, which is a doubly masculine hegemony operating within a culturally nuanced gendered context. …”
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Implicit Messages in Pakistani ESL Course Books: A Corpus-Based Study of Gender Representation by Muhammad Tanveer, Urooj Fatima Alvi

“…Additionally, adjective-based gender discrimination is also obvious in the fact that adjectives are used more often to describe masculine nouns than feminine nouns, about the number of times each word occurs, and shows females as inferior. …”
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Painting the Second World War in Great Britain: A Selection of Women’s Views by Elizabeth de Cacqueray

“…Ainsi peut-on constater que l’idée largement répandue sur l’évolution stéréotypée des rôles masculins et féminins s’étend au-delà du monde artistique et se creuse d’autant après guerre.…”
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Jane Air: The Heroine as Caged Bird in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca by Paul Marchbanks

“…Parmi les nombreux éléments communs au roman de Brontë et au film d’Hitchcock figurent l’héroïne orpheline consciente de son physique ordinaire, un personnage masculin maussade doté d’une épouse “présente-absente” et une intendante dont le tempérament influence l’atmosphère du manoir dans lequel l’héroïne réside temporairement. …”
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Les caractéristiques du profil psychologique des athlètes d’élite des championnats scolaires nationaux by Imane EL MOUTARAJI, Said LOTFI

“…Nous avons également cherché à comparer les profils des athlètes masculins et féminins, des athlètes pratiquant des sports individuels et des athlètes pratiquant des sports d'équipe, ainsi que les groupes d'athlètes à différents niveaux d’études scolaires. 181 sportifs d’élite scolaire nationale ont répondu à la troisième version de l’Ottawa Mental Skills Assessment Tool (OMSAT-3), qui comprend 48 items pour évaluer 12 compétences mentales. …”
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Alterations in Sensitivity to Estrogen, Dihydrotestosterone, and Xenogens in B-Lymphocytes from Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Their Unaffected Twins/Siblings by Martyn A. Sharpe, Taylor L. Gist, David S. Baskin

“…It has been postulated that androgen overexposure in a susceptible person leads to excessive brain masculinization and the autism spectrum disorder (ASD) phenotype. …”
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Emergency diagnostic laparoscopy in abdominal trauma: a study of 41 patients by Marcos Félix Osorio Pagola, Julio Lasarte Ferrer, Orelvis Martínez Martínez, Libán Álvarez Cáceres, Armando Fermín Álvarez Corcuera del Pera, Denis Monzón Vega

“…Most of the studied patients were in the age range from 31 to 40 years with 21 patients (51, 2 %) the open abdominal trauma with 26 patients prevailed (63, 4 %). The masculine sex prevailed with 38 patients (92,7 %) and as much the open trauma as the closed one were more frequent in this sex with 25 patients (96,2 %) and 13 patients (86,7 %) respectively. …”
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Migraine in men by Mira P. Fitzek, Deirdre M. Boucherie, Tessa de Vries, Cleo Handtmann, Haniyeh Fathi, Bianca Raffaelli, Antoinette MaassenVanDenBrink

“…The reasons for these sex disparities are complex, involving biological, psychosocial, and cultural factors, such as brain structural differences, differences in functional responses to painful stimuli, hormonal effects, and behavioral influences like adherence to masculine norms and stigma. Conclusion Men are underrepresented in clinical migraine research. …”
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Gonadal aspects, testosterone and estradiol profiles of the Lebranche mullet Mugil liza subjected to different temperatures during the larviculture phase by Marco Shizuo Owatari, Vanessa Martins da Rocha, Cleize Sales da Silva, Marina Cesconeto dos Santos, Mariana Rangel Pilotto, Fabiola Santiago Pedrotti, Caio Magnotti, Maurício Laterça Martins, Vinicius Ronzani Cerqueira

“…The results suggest that temperature exerts a masculinizing effect on M. liza. Furthermore, temperature directly affected larval growth. …”
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