Becoming the 'ideal man'.

• Main Author: Tiong, Rui Shan.
• Other Authors: Teo You Yenn
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/25674
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This study examines the way young men and women talk about their ‘Ideal Man’ and how they come to embrace the hegemonic (dominant) form of masculinity as the norm. Qualitative interviews exploring the issue within the contexts of friendship, romantic relationship and the family, showed that mismatch...