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A comprehensive sample of confiscated doping products was analyzed, allowing for monitoring of developments regarding the use of doping substances in Switzerland and for anticipating future trends and challenges in sports drug testing. An alarming number of tested products was of substandard pharmaceutical quality.

In this paper, I discuss the possibilities that emerge from using literary fiction as a tool for teaching social theory and critical consciousness. Focusing on data from a social theory course I taught in fall 2007, along with my experiences teaching social theory, I evaluate the utility of utilizing literary fiction in the social theory classroom. Serving as a mechanism to encourage the development of critical consciousness, literary fiction can expand classroom dynamics and establish engaged dialogue between students and teachers. In particular, it has the potential to make social theory interesting and meaningful to students who are often anxious about learning social theory.

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What are the challenges of doing feminist research within a military institution? This became the guiding force of my research with the Midwest Family Program of the National Guard (MWFP). This article examines both my experiences as a feminist scholar conducting research in a military institution as well as the gendered tensions within the MWFP. While in the field, my research shifted from a traditional ethnographic study to a deeply personal autoethnographic project. Analyzing my interviews, documents from MWFP, and published books by military wives, I consider how hegemonic masculinity and emphasized femininity shape the MWFP and public discourses of the military family. Simultaneously, I reflect on my own relationship with social power as an academic conducting research on a military institution. What my analysis exposes is how the National Guard relies on a complementary set of gender identities, at both the individual and institutional-level, reinforcing the position of hegemonic masculinity in society.

In this article, the author explores the process of claiming masculine subjectivity through in-depth interviews conducted with two brothers who are adult children of a Vietnam Veteran. Drawn from a larger research project, these interviews serve as a case study that reveals the ways in which men navigate masculine subjectivity within a specific historical context. Drawing on Connell and Messerschmidt's reformulation of hegemonic masculinity and Butler's work on performativity, the author explores the dynamics of masculine subjectivity through the historical event of the Vietnam War. The author demonstrates how these men utilize both hegemonic masculinity and a subordinate form of masculinity found in the Vietnam Veteran as a way of negotiating their position as masculine subjects. The tension created by this negotiation ultimately produces a state of anxiety as they try to hold onto illusive idealized social narratives of masculine identity.