Number 8, December 2014

Editorial

• Vulnerability, Persistence and Destabilization of Dominant Masculinities: An Introduction
  Wesley Crichlow, Halimah DeShong and Linden Lewis

Peer Reviewed Essays

• Gender and Performativity: Calypso and the Culture of Masculinity
  Linden Lewis

• Fragile Masculinities: The Loss of Young Men and the Pervasive Models of Masculinity in The Bahamas that Encourage them to Fail
  Ian Bennett

• Jamaican Males’ Readings of Masculinities and the Relationship to Violence
  Carl E. James and Andrea Davis

• “Pullin’ Rank”: School Violence and Neocolonial Hegemonic Masculinity
  Hakim Mohandas Amani Williams

• Gender Bend and Play a Mas’! Confronting the Gender Binary
  Kimalee Phillip

• Moving Dancehall off the Island: Female Sexuality and Club Culture in Toronto
  Karen Flynn

• The Construction of Black Jamaican Masculinity in a Neocolonial Imaginary: Canadian “Homohegemony” and the “Homophobic Other”
  Kyle Jackson

• Weaponization and Prisonization of Toronto’s Black Male Youth
  Wesley Crichlow

Gender Dialogues

• Engaging Men: Reflections on CariMAN and the Journey to the Gender Table
  Peter Weller

• Commentary on Men, Violence and Crime
  Gabrielle Henderson

• Boys, Masculinity and Education
  Barbara Bailey

• Caribbean Male Dancers: Redefining Masculinity
  Jorge Luis Morejón

• Counter Narratives-Daddies at the Mall
  Sue Ann Barratt and Crista Mohammed

• Bathhouse Outreach to the Gay Asian Diaspora in Toronto
  Nalini Mohabir, Richard Utama, Daniel Le, Peter Ho, Ryan Tran and Brian-Bao Ly

• Masculinity Studies Yesteryear; Masculinity Studies Today: Tyrone Ali in Conversation with Professor Rhoda Reddock
  Tyrone Ali

Poetry

• No Empathy
  By Nicholas Gilbert

Contributor Biographies