The article discusses macho culture in Israeli gyms. It describes male trainees’ efforts to preserve their dominance, facing female trainees’ threat to undermine it. The article analyzes means, such as military icons, physical battles, and vocal expressions, used to convey male dominance at the gym. Two gyms in the metropolis of Tel Aviv were studied by the male researcher for three years, and one suburban gym was studied by the female researcher for a year. Being researchers and trainees from both genders introduced a unique perspective of gender power relations at the gym. The different sociogeographic backgrounds of the studied gyms offered a refreshing understanding of the impact of specific circumstances on gender dominance. The analysis suggests that males’ hegemony can be threatened by potential women’s dominance, as the ethnography on the suburban gym reveals. Moreover, although men are struggling forcefully to preserve their dominance over “males’ territory” at the Tel Aviv gyms, women’s gradual penetration into the perceived masculine space destabilizes it.

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威胁下的男性优势：男性主义在以色列健身房对抗女性的反抗

这篇文章讨论了以色列体育馆的男子气概文化。它描述了男性受训者为维护其主导地位而面临的女性受训者破坏其统治地位的威胁。文章分析了在体育馆中用来传达男性主导地位的手段，例如军事偶像、身体战斗和声音表达。特拉维夫市的两个体育馆被男研究员研究了三年，一个郊区体育馆被女研究员研究了一年。作为来自两性的研究人员和受训者，他们对健身房的性别权力关系有了独特的看法。所研究体育馆的不同社会地理背景提供了对特定环境对性别优势影响的全新理解。分析表明，男性的霸权可能会受到女性潜在支配地位的威胁，正如郊区体育馆的民族志所揭示的那样。此外，尽管男性在特拉维夫体育馆中竭力维护自己对“男性领地”的支配地位，但女性逐渐渗透到被认为是男性化的空间却破坏了它的稳定性。