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gender and masculinity: metrosexual male  

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  • The term metrosexual male or metrosexuals is an amalgamation of the words metropolitan and heterosexual that originally was used by journalist Mark Simpson in a story in the British newspaper The Independent and subsequently was used by Simpson in a widely quoted and reproduced article appearing on in 2002. The term was widely reproduced and recirculated in the popular media as a way of talking about shifting gender identity in the late 20th century. [Source: Encyclopedia of Gender in Media; Gender and Masculinity: Metrosexual Male]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-X19J1XH2-T

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