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The author analyzed three thematic subfields within the history of masculinities: disability and masculinities, transgender masculinities, and Indigenous masculinities. Among them, the connection between disability and masculinity seems to be particularly interesting, as it allows one to trace a potential change in gendered subjectivity. For example, a change in the masculinity of a person who previously embodied martial masculinity, but had to modify or redefine it through injury in a conflict. - Nikolai Kotkov
Fraser's article discuses the history of masculinity in relation to specific historical contexts to highlight how what constitutes masculinity is a performance related to power. The section discussing the military and gendered performance is particularly interesting as.an institution that has excluded women historically. To look at the military are enforcing a specific performance could be seen as a way of challenging the notion of masculinity being any kind of default. -Hannah Covin
Fraser's piece addresses a common argument against the analysis and study of the history of masculinity, being that it brings up a risk of inadvertently recentering the study of history on men. Fraser argues that the study of masculinity is important in order to understand power dynamics, gender norms, and social structure in today's world. -Caroline Cochran
Fraser's article identifies various differences between perceptions of masculinity and uses them to highlight the effects of the study of masculinity and the necessity of it's inclusion in the conversation of Gender Studies alongside studies of the history of femininity to more completely understand the field as a whole.