Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

NEW MALE STUDIES: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL (NMS) is an open access online interdisciplinary forum for research and discussion of issues facing boys and men worldwide.

Rationale

In response to a now well-documented decline in the overall well-being of males in postmodern culture, a group of Australian, Canadian, European and American scholars have gathered to work together to publish research essays, opinion pieces, and book reviews on all aspects of the male experience.

Main Foci

Several broad areas of fundamental interest and concern have been identified:

(1) the experience and outcomes of education for boys and young men, (2) challenges and difficulties of developmental transition for males especially adolescents, (3) significant disparities in health outcomes for men compared with women, (4) the vital role of fathering, (5) the inordinate number of males in the penal system, (6) the characterisations of men and boys cultivated within popular culture, academe, and many social institutions,  and (7) how men experience and are affected by the kinds of occupational, familial, and social roles that are culturally required of them.

Tri-annual Publication

New Male Studies will three times annually publish invited manuscripts by experts in their fields as well as contributions by young scholars and others submitted for peer review.

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Editorial Stance

The journals editorial and advisory board members envision the new male studies as providing an academic, non-polemical, and proactive forum for the clarification of issues and the promotion of fresh approaches to understanding and addressing challenges boys and men currently face.

Quantitative and qualitative research, opinion pieces, essays, and relevant book reviews are welcome, as are reflections of a personal nature of interest to those who have had similar experiences.

Scholars will be published who work in areas as diverse as: law, economics, psychology, biology, genetics, medicine, anthropology, literature, education, forensics, public policy, demography, history, sociology, and other related disciplines.

The journal will play a pivotal role as a forum for discussion, and a clearinghouse of work being carried on in academe, government, and at the grassroots level. The work of all academics including independent scholars is especially welcome.

NMS Position Statement

Discussion of gender in the last half century has often been characterised by a polarisation of the sexes; making it very difficult to engage with issues of vital importance to healthy interpersonal and social relationships. Gender ideology - and reactions against it - all too often have not only curtailed possibilities of reasoned dialogue, but have sidelined crucial informative evidence and silenced individuals with unpopular views.

NMS recognises the need to pursue a different approach to understanding gender issues and the contemporary experience and roles of males in society; an approach that is:

      open to constructive academic dialogue guided by available evidence of a range of different academic disciplines, consideration of both men's and women's particular cultural experience and circumstances, and the indispensable contribution both sexes make to the quality and viability of family and community life;

      guided by principles of equity, intellectual integrity, and a view of human experience, society, and ethics that is inseparable from biological, psychological, cultural, economic realities

     careful to avoid intellectual reductionism, political partisanship, ideological advocacy and defensiveness, while instead openly pursuing enquiring and dynamic multidisciplinary scholarship

 

Section Policies

Editorial

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Articles

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Brief Contribution

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Monographs

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Book Reviews

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Complete Issue in PDF

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Announcement

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Front Matter

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Back Matter

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Podcasts

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Classics in Male Studies

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Photo Feature

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Contemporary Issues

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Clinical Issues

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Panel on Male-Positive Pedagogy

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Memoir

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Conferences

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Peer Review Process

Advisory Board members are scholars and professionals committed to a multi-perspectival approach to understanding the experience of being male (boys and men) in contemporary global culture. They will contribute to NMS as sources of information, guidance and liaison with individuals and institutions. While they will be sources of written contributions to NMS, they will not be responsible for securing manuscripts or managing the publication of the journal. They will also set the editorial policy and suggest changes for improving the journal. This includes regularly assessing the direction of the journal and ensuring its integrity and academic standards.

Executive Board members are likewise scholars and professionals committed to a multi-perspectival approach to understanding the experience of being male (boys and men) in contemporary global culture. They will in most cases also be members of the Advisory Board but will have the (additional) responsibility for securing contributions, reviewing manuscripts and as a group, refining editorial policy as the journal develops and evolves.

Members of both Boards will represent diverse areas of scholarly and professional interest concerned with males' well-being: law, economics, psychology, biology, genetics, medicine, anthropology, literature, education, forensics, public policy, demography, history, sociology, and other related disciplines.

Members of both Boards will also represent the broad range of discipline-specific academic expertise which provides a robust capacity for peer review of contributions submitted for publication in the journal.

The roles of Advisory Board members and Executive Board members are non-remunerative and are performed on a pro bono basis.

The Communities Advisory Board consists of a select group of individuals whose expertise and perspective enrich and enhance the work of the international collegial community supporting New Male Studies: An International Journal in its endeavor to create a more humanising and sensible discourse in relation to males and gender, and to effect positive cultural change of real benefit to boys and men and the human community overall.
 

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.