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MALE ALPHA [2 records]

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Record 1 2013-04-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology of Human Relations
DEF

A movement aimed at freeing men from traditional views of the male character and role in society.

OBS

New Man: a man who rejects sexist attitudes, and aims to be caring, sensitive, non-aggressive.

OBS

A conscious contradistinction to the women's movement in the early seventies, renewed in the eighties and nineties through mythopoetic attempts to redefine the male role.

Key term(s)
  • new man

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie des relations humaines
OBS

Mouvement organisé aux États-Unis en réaction aux tentatives féministes de définir le rôle des hommes dans la société (p. ex. les écrits de Naomi Wolf sur les types masculins alpha et bêta, et son rôle récent dans la redéfinition de l'image publique du candidat présidentiel A1 Gore, comme un «homme alpha»).

Key term(s)
  • homme alpha
  • mâle alpha
  • homme bêta
  • mâle bêta

Spanish

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Record 2 1999-11-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology of Human Relations
CONT

The most controversial bit of advice Naomi Wolf gave Al Gore was that he shed his Beta male persona in order to successfully usurp the Alpha male now in the White House. Gore's problem is now trying to sell himself as a powerful, deminant, controlled super-male. If Gore really were an Alpha male, he wouldn't need to pay someone $15,000 a month to tell him so, and, ironically, he would'nt have been a good vice-president. What he should be doing is embracing his Beta-maleness and selling it as a welcome alternative to seven years of Alpha male weenive-rule.

Key term(s)
  • Alpha maleness
  • Beta maleness
  • Beta male
  • Beta male persona

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie des relations humaines
OBS

Mâle dominant, viril, autoritaire, dans la typologie de N. Wolf, militante féministe.

Key term(s)
  • mâle bêta
  • personnalité bêta
  • personnalité de type bêta

Spanish

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