![rw-book-cover](https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/static/images/article3.5c705a01b476.png) ## Metadata - Author:: [[American psychological association|American Psychological Association]] - Full Title:: APA Guidelines for Psychological Practice With Boys and Men - Category:: #🗞️Articles - URL:: https://readwise.io/reader/document_raw_content/26973750 - Finished date:: [[2023-01-21]] ## Highlights > Masculinity ideology is a set of descriptive, prescriptive, and proscriptive of cognitions about boys and men (Levant & Richmond, 2007; Pleck, Sonenstein, & Ku, 1994). Although there are differences in masculinity ideologies, there is a particular constellation of standards that have held sway over large segments of the population, including: anti-femininity, achievement, **eschewal of the appearance of weakness**, and adventure, risk, and violence. These have been collectively referred to as traditional masculinity ideology (Levant & Richmond, 2007). Additionally, acknowledging the plurality of and social constructionist perspective of masculinity, the term masculinities is being used with increasing frequency (Wong & Wester, 2016). ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gptfpczj8xrxppa1fb9h72vq)) ^97af56 ## New highlights added [[2023-01-22]] - Levant, R. F., & Richmond, K. (2007). A review of research on masculinity ideologies using the Male Role Norms Inventory. The Journal of Men’s Studies, 15(2), 130– 146. doi:10.3149/jms.1502.130 ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gqctnjqsjkhqcc848xzxpcqf)) ## New highlights added [[2023-02-23]] > , eschewal of the > appearance of weakness ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gsx4nzvq1wqx75yvvaq7mp45))